Αἴτνη - Stephanos Ethnika

Αἴτνη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Αἴτνη, πόλις Σικελίας, ἀπὸ Κατάνης, Ἱέρωνος κτίσμα, ὡς ... ὁ οἰκήτωρ Αἰτναῖος. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ πρὶν Ἴνησσον.

Aitne: a city of Sicily, from Katane, a foundation of Hieron, as... The inhabitant Aitnaios. Formerly it was called Inessos.

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	#145
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 55.8
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-30
Word count	16

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after 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 · medium 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	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 · medium 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 · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.326

char LCS 43 (53.8%) · word LCS 8 (53.3%)

Stephanos

Αἴτνη, πόλις Σικελίας, ἀπὸ Κατάνης, Ἱέρωνος κτίσμα, ὡς ... ὁ οἰκήτωρ Αἰτναῖος. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ πρὶν Ἴνησσον.

Herodian

…στι καὶ πόλις Λίβυσσα. ἔστι καὶ κώμη Κιλικίας Διδυμαί, ὀξυτόνως. Δινδρύμη πόλις Μακεδονίας. Τὰ εἰς 'νη' μονογενῆ μετ´ ἐπιπλοκῆς συμφώνου βαρύνεται, πάχνη, λάχνη, ἄχνη καὶ Ἄχναι πόλις Θεσσαλίας. ἔστι καὶ Βοιωτίας, τέχνη, Αἴτνη πόλις Σικελίας ἀπὸ Κατάνης, Ἱέρωνος κτίσμα, ὡς..... φάτνη, δάφνη καὶ Δάφνη προάστιον ἐπισημότατον τῆς ἑῴας Ἀντιοχείας. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη Δάφνη Λυκίας χωρίον. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πλησίον Πηλουσίου παρὰ τῶν ἐκεῖ πολλῶν φυομένων δαφνῶν. ὄρφνη ἡ νύξ. Ἴγνη πόλις πλησίον Πριάπου. Ἴ…