Αἶσα - Stephanos Ethnika

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Αἶσα, πόλις Θρᾴκης προσεχὴς τῇ Παλλήνῃ. Αἰσαῖος, ὡς Αἶα Αἰαῖος.

Aisa: a city of Thrace adjoining Pallene. Aisaios, as 'Aia' 'Aiaios'.

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	#142
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 54.11
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-30
Word count	10

Links

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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 PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	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	καί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN) formula:0af867b3dd6df580	Translate as "Y is also 'X'" 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 · medium confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	προσεχής -ες (+ dative) gloss:3d5be602ab263899	bordering, adjoining Domain: MEASUREMENT & SPACE 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 1.266

char LCS 32 (64.0%) · word LCS 6 (60.0%)

Stephanos

Αἶσα, πόλις Θρᾴκης προσεχὴς τῇ Παλλήνῃ. Αἰσαῖος, ὡς Αἶα Αἰαῖος.

Herodian

Πύρρα πόλις ἐν Λέσβῳ· ἔστι καὶ κώμη Λιγυστικῆς. βαρύνεται δὲ καὶ Κύδραι πόλις Βρυγῶν. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ, καὶ Μάκρα νῆσος Λυκίας, ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν περίπλῳ αὐτῆς. Τὰ εἰς 'σα' δισύλλαβα βαρύνεται, αἶσα· ἔστι καὶ Αἶσα πόλις Θρᾴκης προσεχὴς τῇ Παλλήνῃ. μοῦσα μόνον δισύλλαβον τῇ 'ου' διφθόγγῳ παραληγόμενον ὁμοίως ἐν χρήσει τῇ τῶν παλαιῶν καὶ τῇ κοινῇ συνηθείᾳ. τὸ γὰρ Δοῦσα κύριον καθ´ ἱστορίαν ἐστὶ λεγόμενον ἥ τε Χοῦσα πόλις Αἰγυπτίων. πεῖσα ἡ πειθώ, μεθ´ ὧν γλῶσσα, π…