Αἴγειρα - Stephanos Ethnika

Αἴγειρα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Αἴγειρα, πόλις Ἀχαΐας, ἣν Ὅμηρος Ὑπερησίην φησίν. ἔνιοι ἀπὸ Αἰγιαλέως τὴν χώραν Αἰγιαλόν φασι τό τε Αἴγιον καὶ ἔτι Αἴγειραν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Αἰγειράτης, τὸ κτητικὸν Αἰγειρατικός, ὡς Πτελεάτης Πτελεατικός. Παυσανίας δὲ ἑβδόμῳ λέγει τὴν Ὑπερησίαν Αἴγειραν μετωνομάσθαι διὰ τοιάνδε αἰτίαν. Σικυωνίων στρατὸς ἀφίξεσθαι ἔμελλεν αὐτοῖς· οἱ δὲ ἀθροίζουσιν αἶγας καὶ [πρὸς] τοῖς κέρασιν ἔδησαν δᾷδας καὶ ἐξάπτουσι διὰ τῆς νυκτός· νομίσαντες οὖν τὴν φλόγα τοῦ ἐπικουρικοῦ πυρὸς ἔφυγον, Ὑπερησιεῖς δὲ Αἴγειραν τὴν πόλιν ὠνόμασαν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὁμοίως Αἰγειράτης καὶ θηλυκὸν Αἰγειρᾶτις. Φίλων δέ φησι Κιλικίας πόλιν εἶναι Αἴγειραν.

Aigeira: a city of Achaia, which Homer calls Hyperesie. Some say from Aigialeus the land Aigialos, both Aigion and further Aigeira. The ethnonym Aigeirates, the possessive Aigeiratikos, as 'Pteleates' 'Pteleatikos'. Pausanias in the seventh says Hyperesia was renamed Aigeira for the following reason. An army of Sikyonians was about to come against them; they gathered goats and tied torches their horns and lit them during the night; so, thinking the blaze to be that of an auxiliary force, they fled, and the Hyperesians named the city Aigeira. The ethnonym likewise Aigeirates and feminine Aigeiratis. Philon says there is a city of Cilicia Aigeira.

External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.

Text Details

Entry	#95
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 39.6
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-29
Word count	89

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (definite ARTICLE + ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:bcd70ae781e7b205	Translate as "just as 'Y' is from the name X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.263

char LCS 193 (37.9%) · word LCS 34 (38.6%)

Stephanos

…γιαλέως τὴν χώραν Αἰγιαλόν φασι τό τε Αἴγιον καὶ ἔτι Αἴγειραν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Αἰγειράτης, τὸ κτητικὸν Αἰγειρατικός, ὡς Πτελεάτης Πτελεατικός. Παυσανίας δὲ ἑβδόμῳ λέγει τὴν Ὑπερησίαν Αἴγειραν μετωνομάσθαι διὰ τοιάνδε αἰτίαν. Σικυωνίων στρατὸς ἀφίξεσθαι ἔμελλεν αὐτοῖς· οἱ δὲ ἀθροίζουσιν αἶγας καὶ [πρὸς] τοῖς κέρασιν ἔδησαν δᾷδας καὶ ἐξάπτουσι διὰ τῆς νυκτός· νομίσαντες οὖν τὴν φλόγα τοῦ ἐπικουρικοῦ πυρὸς ἔφυγον, Ὑπερησιεῖς δὲ Αἴγειραν τὴν πόλιν ὠνόμασαν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὁμοίως Αἰγειράτης καὶ θηλυκὸν Αἰγειρᾶτις. Φίλων δέ φησι Κιλικίας πόλιν εἶναι Αἴγειραν.

Herodian

…α πόλις Λιβύης ἀπὸ Ταυχείρας τῆς Ἀντάνδρου θυγατρός. θηλυκῶς καὶ οὐδετέρως ὡς Στάγειρα. Αἴγειρα πόλις Ἀχαΐας, ἣν Ὅμηρος Ὑπερησίην φησίν. τὸ δὲ ὄνομα τὸ νῦν, ὥς φησιν Παυσανίας ἑβδόμῳ (c. 2, 6), ἐγένετο ἐπ´ αἰτίᾳ τοιᾷδε. Σικυωνίων στρατὸς ἀφίξεσθαι ἔμελλεν αὐτοῖς· οἱ δὲ ἀθροίζουσιν αἶγας καὶ πρὸς τοῖς κέρασιν ἔδησαν δᾷδας καὶ ἐξάπτουσι διὰ τῆς νυκτός· νομίσαντες οὖν τὴν φλόγα τοῦ ἐπικουρικοῦ πυρὸς ἔφυγον, Ὑπερησιεῖς δὲ Αἴγειραν τὴν πόλιν ὠνόμασαν. ἔνιοι δὲ ἀπὸ Αἰγιαλέως τὴν χώραν Αἰγιαλόν φασι τό τε Αἴγιον καὶ ἔτι Αἴγειραν. Ἀγρόειρα ἢ Ἀλλόειρα ἡ ὕστερον Ἀττάλεια καλουμένη πόλις Λυδίας. Τὰ εἰς 'ρα' ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς βραχὺ ἔχοντα τὸ 'α' καὶ πρὸ τέλους ἔχοντα 'ου' …