Ἀλμωπία - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἀλμωπία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Ἀλμωπία, χώρα τῆς Μακεδονίας, ἣν ᾤκουν Ἄλμωπες. Λυκόφρων “ἐκ δ´ Ἀλμωπίας παλιμπλανήτην δέξεται Τυρσηνία” περὶ Αἰνείου λέγων. ἐκλήθη δὲ ἀπὸ Ἄλμωπος γίγαντος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἄλμωψ καὶ Ἀλμώπιος καὶ Ἀλμωπία. ἀπὸ Ἄλμωπος τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος καὶ Ἕλλης τῆς Ἀθάμαντος.

Almopia: a land of Macedonia, which the Almopes inhabited. Lykophron: "and from Almopia Tyrsenia shall receive the wanderer returning", speaking of Aineias. It was named from Almops a giant. The ethnonym Almops and Almopios and Almopia. From Almops son of Poseidon and Helle daughter of Athamas.

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	#223
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 76.16
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-01
Word count	37

Links

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" 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	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
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 1.287

char LCS 119 (58.0%) · word LCS 21 (56.8%)

Stephanos

Ἀλμωπία, χώρα τῆς Μακεδονίας, ἣν ᾤκουν Ἄλμωπες. Λυκόφρων “ἐκ δ´ Ἀλμωπίας παλιμπλανήτην δέξεται Τυρσηνία” περὶ Αἰνείου λέγων. ἐκλήθη δὲ ἀπὸ Ἄλμωπος γίγαντος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἄλμωψ καὶ Ἀλμώπιος καὶ Ἀλμωπία. ἀπὸ Ἄλμωπος τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος καὶ Ἕλλης τῆς Ἀθάμαντος.

Herodian

…σόλυμα ἀπὸ Αἰλίου Ἀδριανοῦ. Ἀκραιφία πόλις Βοιωτίας. οἱ δὲ Ἀκραίφιον, Παυσανίας δὲ ( 9, 23, 5 et 9) Ἀκραίφνιον καὶ οὐδετέρως. ἦν δὲ ὑπὸ Ἀθάμαντος κτισθεῖσα ἢ ὑπὸ Ἀκραιφέως τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος. Θεόπομπος δὲ τὰ Ἀκραίφνια φησίν. Ἀλμωπία χώρα τῆς Μακεδονίας, ἣν ᾤκουν Ἄλμωπες. Λυκόφρων (v. 1238) «ἐκ δ´ Ἀλμωπίας παλιμπλανήτην δέξεται Τυρσηνία» περὶ Αἰνείου λέγων. ἐκλήθη δὲ ἀπὸ Ἄλμωπος τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος καὶ Ἕλλης τῆς Ἀθάμαντος. Ἀλωπεκία νῆσος. Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. Ἀξία πόλις Λοκρῶν τῶν Ὀζολῶν, ἀπὸ Ἀξίας τῆς θυγατρὸς Κλυμένου ἢ τοῦ παιδὸς τοῦ Ἀξίου. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Ἰταλίας. Ἀπία· οὕτως οἱ νεώτεροι τὸ Ἄργος. Α…