Αἴγουσα - Stephanos Ethnika

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island

Αἴγουσα, νῆσος Λιβύης, κατὰ Λίβυας λεγομένη Κατρία. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Αἰγουσαῖος, ὡς Σκοτουσαῖος.

Aigousa: an island of Libya, called Katria among the Libyans. The ethnonym Aigousaios, as 'Skotousaios'.

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	#111
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 44.10
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-29
Word count	12

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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	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 · 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

Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.269

char LCS 42 (56.8%) · word LCS 7 (58.3%)

Stephanos

Αἴγουσα, νῆσος Λιβύης, κατὰ Λίβυας λεγομένη Κατρία. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Αἰγουσαῖος, ὡς Σκοτουσαῖος.

Herodian

…μη μεταξὺ Αἰγύπτου καὶ τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης. Στράβων ιζʹ. Ἑκαταῖος δὲ Φακόεσσαι καὶ Φακοέσσαις φησί. καὶ Φάκουσαι νῆσοι καὶ Φάκαιοι. Δάφνουσα. οὕτως Δαφνοῦντα πόλιν Φωκικήν φησιν Εὐφορίων. Βάρχουσα πόλις μικρὰ Φοινίκης. Αἴγουσα νῆσος Λιβύης, κατὰ Λίβυας λεγομένη Κατρία.