Ἀγραῖοι - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ἀγραῖοι, ἔθνος Ἀράβιον, ὡς ἐν ἑκκαιδεκάτῳ Στράβων. ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἕτερον ἔθνος πλησίον Ἀκαρνάνων, ὡς Θουκυδίδης ἐν τρίτῃ. τὸ θηλυκὸν ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας Ἀγραία. λέγονται δὲ καὶ Ἀγραεῖς, ὡς Ἐρατοσθένης.

Agraioi: an Arabian people, as per Strabo in book 16. There is also another people near the Akarnanians, as per Thucydides in book 3. The feminine form for the territory is 'Agraia'. They are also called 'Agraeis', as per Eratosthenes.

AI translation — gpt-6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#44
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 20.19
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-28
Word count	30
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	16,4,2 [C 767,30]
Θουκυδίδης (Thucydides)	3,106,2. 111,4 etc.
Ἐρατοσθένης (Eratosthenes)	fr. 108 Berger

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ἀγραῖοι	Agraei · people
Ἄραψ	Arabian / Arabs · people
Ἀκαρνάνες	Acarnanians · people
Ἀγραία	Agraea · place
Ἀγραεῖς	Agraeis · people
Ἀγραῖοι	place · explicit · pleiades: 530784 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	“Agraioi”: an Arabian people/tribe. This identifies the people and their geographical affiliation, but does not explicitly explain the origin of the place-name.
Unclear Metalinguistic	There is also another people near the Acarnanians. This distinguishes a second group bearing the name, without explaining how the name originated.
Morphological Composition	The feminine form for the territory is Agraia. This gives the grammatical/gendered form of the name applied to the land, but does not provide an etymology.
Unclear Metalinguistic	They are also called Agra(e)is. This records an alternative form of the ethnonym, without explaining its derivation.

Links

Place links	Agraeans
Page scans	vol1_122.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative BOOK NAME) formula:c795eaabedf9a542	*Translate as "Χ, in his Y"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Formula	X... πλησίον + Y. (genitive) formula:3d243d130e764a8b	Translate as "X... near Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	Χ (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:c22408ee90fd1a1e	*Translate as "X, in book Y of his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 3 occurrences
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.141

char LCS 20 (12.9%) · word LCS 5 (16.7%)

Stephanos

Ἀγραῖοι, ἔθνος Ἀράβιον, ὡς ἐν ἑκκαιδεκάτῳ Στράβων. ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἕτερον ἔθνος πλησίον Ἀκαρνάνων, ὡς Θουκυδίδης ἐν τρίτῃ. τὸ θηλυκὸν ἐπὶ τῆς χώρας Ἀγραία. λέγονται δὲ καὶ Ἀγραεῖς, ὡς Ἐρατοσθένης.

Herodian

…παρὰ τὸ τοὺς ἵππους ἀμέλγειν. τὸ δὲ Ἄμολγος προπαροξύτονον ἐπὶ τῆς νήσου οὐκ ἀρσενικόν. λέγεται δὲ καὶ Ἄμοργος, ὡσαύτως καὶ Σολόγοργος πόλις Ἀρκαδίας ἡ καὶ Ἥραια. τὸ δὲ Σύναγγος πόλις Φοινίκης καὶ Σάλαγγος ἔθνος Ἰταλίας—ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἕτερον ἔθνος Ἰνδικόν—διπλασιαζόμενον ἔχει τὸ 'γ'. καὶ τὸ Ὅμαργος σύνθετον ἀπὸ τοῦ ὁμοῦ καὶ τοῦ ἀργός. ἔστι δὲ ὄνομα κυνός. * Τὸ ὀλίγος προπαροξύνεται. ἔστι δὲ μονῆρες. οὐδὲν γὰρ εἰς 'γος' ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς τῷ 'ι' παραλήγεται, ἀλλὰ μ…