Λάδεστα ἢ Λάδεστον

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Λάδεστα ἢ Λάδεστον, μία τῶν Λιβυρνίδων νήσων. Θεόπομπος καʹ Φιλιππικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λαδεστανός, ὡς τῆς Αὐγούστας Αὐγουστανός.

Ladesta or Ladeston: one of the Liburnian islands. Theopompos, book 21 of the Philippika. The ethnonym is 'Ladestanos', just as 'Augustanos' is from the name Augusta.

Text Details

Entry	#10
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 405.16
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-24
Word count	17
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θεόπομπος (Theopompus)	Φιλιππικῶν · FGrHist 115 F 131

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Λάδεστος	Ladesta (island) · place
Λάδεστος	Ladeston (alternate form of Ladesta) · place
Λιβυρνίδες	Liburnians (Liburnian islands) · people
Λαδεστανός	Ladestanos (ethnic) · people
Αὔγουστα	Augusta · place
Αὐγουστανός	Augustanos (ethnic of Augusta) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnic name 'Λαδεστανός' (Ladestanós), formed like 'Αὐγουστανός' is formed from 'Αὐγούστα' (Augusta) — i.e., the ethnicon is formed by adding -ανός as in 'Αὐγουστανός'

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 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	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.