Αἰτωλία - Stephanos Ethnika

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Αἰτωλία, χώρα ἀπὸ Αἰτωλοῦ τοῦ Ἐνδυμίωνος, ὃς ἐκπεσὼν ἀπὸ Πίσης ὑπὸ Σαλμωνέως συνῴκισε τὴν ἀπ´ αὐτοῦ κληθεῖσαν Αἰτωλίαν. πρότερον δὲ Ὑαντὶς ἐκαλεῖτο. τὸ ἐθνικὸν καὶ Αἰτωλίς καὶ Αἰτώλιος. ἔστι καὶ Αἰτωλία πόλις Πελοποννήσου, ἣν συγκαταλέγει ταῖς Λακωνικαῖς πόλεσιν Ἀνδροτίων καὶ Ἀτθίδος. ὀξύνεται δέ [Αἰτωλός]· τὰ γὰρ εἰς « ωλος » ἀρσενικὰ πρὸ τοῦ « ω » τὸ « τ » ἔχοντα ὀξύνεται, Καστωλός Πακτωλός ἁμαρτωλός. τὸ Σπάρτωλος θηλυκόν ἐστι, καὶ τὸ Μαύσωλος οὐκ ἔχει τὸ « τ ». ἔστι καὶ Αἰτωλός ἐπίθετον παρὰ ῥῆμα τὸ αἰτεῖν. τὸ κτητικὸν Αἰτωλικόν. λέγεται καὶ αἰτωλισταί οἱ αἰτωλίζοντες καὶ τὰ Αἰτωλῶν φρονοῦντες.

Aitolia: a land from Aitolos son of Endymion, who, expelled from Pisa by Salmoneus, settled the Aitolia named after him. Formerly it was called Hyantis. The ethnonym both Aitolis and Aitolios. There is also Aitolia a city of the Peloponnese, which Androtion in the Atthis reckons among the Laconian cities. is oxytone; for masculines in 'olos' having 't' before the 'o' are oxytone, Kastolos Paktolos 'hamartolos'. Spartolos is feminine, and 'Mausolos' does not have the 't'. There is also 'aitolos' an adjective from the verb 'aitein'. The possessive Aitolikon. Also called 'aitolistai' those who side with the Aitolians and favour the Aitolian cause.

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	#146
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 55.10
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-30
Word count	90

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS 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
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
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 1.286

char LCS 122 (25.4%) · word LCS 22 (24.4%)

Stephanos

Αἰτωλία, χώρα ἀπὸ Αἰτωλοῦ τοῦ Ἐνδυμίωνος, ὃς ἐκπεσὼν ἀπὸ Πίσης ὑπὸ Σαλμωνέως συνῴκισε τὴν ἀπ´ αὐτοῦ κληθεῖσαν Αἰτωλίαν. πρότερον δὲ Ὑαντὶς ἐκαλεῖτο. τὸ ἐθνικὸν καὶ Αἰτωλίς καὶ Αἰτώλιος. ἔστι καὶ Αἰτωλία πόλις Πελοποννήσου, ἣν συγκαταλέγει ταῖς Λακωνικαῖς πόλεσιν Ἀνδροτίων καὶ Ἀτθίδος. ὀξύνεται δέ [Αἰτωλός]· τὰ γὰρ εἰς « ωλος » ἀρσενικὰ πρὸ τοῦ « ω » τὸ « τ » ἔχοντα…

Herodian

… Λέσβος δὲ τάξιν ἑβδόμην λαχοῦς´ ἔχει. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη Σικελία κατὰ τὴν Πελοπόννησον. Καππαδοκία, Ἀρμενία, Τισία πόλις Ἰταλίας. Ἀγκαρία πόλις Ἰταλίας. Αἰολία νῆσος Αἰόλου. Ὅμηρος «Αἰολίην δ´ ἐς νῆσον ἀφικόμεθα» (Od. κ 1). Αἰτωλία χώρα ἀπὸ Αἰτωλοῦ τοῦ Ἐνδυμίωνος, ὃς ἐκπεσὼν ἀπὸ Πίσης ὑπὸ Σαλμωνέως συνῴκισε τὴν ἀπ´ αὐτοῦ κληθεῖσαν Αἰτωλίαν. πρότερον δὲ Ὑαντίς ἐκαλεῖτο. ἔστι καὶ Αἰτωλία πόλις Πελοποννήσου, ἣν συγκαταλέγει ταῖς Λακωνικαῖς πόλεσιν Ἀνδροτίων ἕκτῳ (?) Ἀτθίδος. Ἀμαντία

Herodian 1.165

char LCS 74 (15.4%) · word LCS 13 (14.4%)

Stephanos

Αἰτωλία, χώρα ἀπὸ Αἰτωλοῦ τοῦ Ἐνδυμίωνος, ὃς ἐκπεσὼν ἀπὸ Πίσης ὑπὸ Σαλμωνέως συνῴκισε τὴν ἀπ´ αὐτοῦ κληθεῖσαν Αἰτωλίαν. πρότερον δὲ Ὑαντὶς ἐκαλεῖτο. τὸ ἐθνικὸν καὶ Αἰτωλίς καὶ Αἰτώλιος. ἔστι καὶ Αἰτωλία πόλις Πελοποννήσου, ἣν συγκαταλέγει ταῖς Λακωνικαῖς πόλεσιν Ἀνδροτίων καὶ Ἀτθίδος. ὀξύνεται δέ [Αἰτωλός]· τὰ γὰρ εἰς « ωλος » ἀρσενικὰ …

Herodian

…τὸ αἰτεῖν, ἁμαρτωλός. τὸ μέντοι ἕωλος ὁ χθεσινός προπαροξύνεται ὡς παρώνυμον καὶ τὴν τρίτην βραχεῖαν ἔχει. * καὶ ἄλλως· Τὰ εἰς 'ωλος' ἀρσενικὰ πρὸ τοῦ 'ω' τὸ 'τ' ἔχοντα ὀξύνεται, Καστωλός, Πακτωλός, ἁμαρτωλός, Αἰτωλός ὁ Ἐνδυμίωνος, ὃς ἐκπεσὼν ἀπὸ Πίσης ὑπὸ Σαλμωνέως συνῴκισε τὴν ἀπ´ αὐτοῦ κληθεῖσαν Αἰτωλίαν, καὶ τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὁμοφώνως. τὸ Σπάρτωλος θηλυκόν ἐστι καὶ τὸ Μαύσωλος οὐκ ἔχει τὸ 'τ'. Τὰ εἰς 'λος' ὑπερδισύλλαβα παραληγόμενα τῇ διὰ τοῦ 'υ' διφθόγγῳ προπαροξύνεται. δίαυλος, θύραυλος, ἴουλος, Κάμουλος, ὕπουλος, Γαίτουλο…