Ἀλαβών - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ἀλαβών, πόλις [Σικελίας] καὶ ποταμός, ὡς Δημήτριος ἐν συνωνύμοις. κλίνεται Ἀλαβῶνος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἀλαβώνιος ὡς Κολοφώνιος.

Alabon: a city and river, as Demetrios in the Synonyms. Declined Alabonos. The ethnonym Alabonios as 'Kolophonios'.

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	#187
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 67.5
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-31
Word count	16

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative BOOK NAME) formula:c795eaabedf9a542	*Translate as "Χ, in his Y"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS 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 · 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	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 · 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

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

Herodian 1.23

char LCS 52 (53.1%) · word LCS 9 (56.2%)

Stephanos

Ἀλαβών, πόλις [Σικελίας] καὶ ποταμός, ὡς Δημήτριος ἐν συνωνύμοις. κλίνεται Ἀλαβῶνος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἀλαβώνιος ὡς Κολοφώνιος.

Herodian

…ήρθη τῷ γέροντι, θέρμα τε ἐπέλαβεν αὐτόν. ἔστι καὶ Βουβών πόλις Λυκίας. «Βουβών γὰρ καὶ Βάλβουρα πόλεις Λυκίας, ἀπὸ Βαλβούρου καὶ Βουβῶνος· οὗτοι δὲ λῃσταὶ πόλεις ἔκτισαν ὁμωνύμους». Τὰ εἰς 'βων' ὑπερδισύλλαβα ὀξύνεται, Ἀλαβών πόλις Σικελίας καὶ ποταμὸς ὡς Δημήτριος ἐν συνωνύμοις. ἀῤῥαβών. τὸ δὲ Χαρναβῶν περισπᾶται. Σοφοκλῆς Τριπτολέμῳ καὶ Χαρναβῶντος, ὃς Γετῶν ἄρχει τὰ νῦν. Τὰ εἰς 'γων' δισύλλαβα ἀρσενικά, ὁπότε μὴ περιεκτικὴν ἔχοι δύναμιν ἢ διὰ τοῦ 'ο' κλίνοιτο κατὰ τὴν πρὸ τέλους συλλαβήν, βα…