Λαπίθη - Stephanos Ethnika

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Λαπίθη, πόλις Θεσσαλίας, ὡς Ἐπαφρόδιτος ἐν τοῖς Ὁμηρικοῖς, ἀπὸ Λαπίθου τοῦ Περίφαντος. οἱ οἰκήτορες Λαπίθαι, οὐκ ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως, ἀλλ´ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἔθνους, ὡς Πισίδαι καὶ Ἴωνες καὶ Θετταλοί. Λαπίθαι γὰρ ἔθνος Θεσσαλίας. ἔστι καὶ Λαπίθαιον ὄνομα ὄρους τῆς Λακωνικῆς.

Lapithe: a city in Thessaly, named after Lapithos, son of Periphas, as per Epaphroditos in his Homerika. Its inhabitants are called 'Lapithai', not after the city but after the people, as with the 'Pisidai', 'Iones' and 'Thettaloi'. For the 'Lapithai' are a people of Thessaly. Lapithaion is also the name of a mountain in Lakonike.

AI translation — gpt-6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#42
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 412.9
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-25
Word count	40
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἐπαφρόδιτος (Epaphroditus)	τοῖς Ὁμηρικοῖς · fr. 48 Braswell = fr. 16 Lünzner

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Λαπίθη	Lapithē (city) · place · corrected · Q334794
Θεσσαλία	Thessaly · place · corrected · Q1247568
Λαπίθος	Lapithos (eponymous founder) · person
Περίφαντος	Periphantos (Periphan(t)) · person
Λαπίθαι	Lapiths · people
Πισίδαι	Pisidians · people
Ἴωνες	Ionians · people
Θετταλοί	Thessalians · people
Λαπίθαιον	Lapithaion (name of a mountain) · place
Λακωνική	Laconia · place · corrected · Q11931074

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	From Lapithos (son) of Periphas (i.e., named after the man Lapithos, son of Periphas).
Unclear Metalinguistic	The inhabitants called Lapithai—not from the city, but from the people/ethnic group (i.e., the name derives from an ethnic name rather than the polis).
Unclear Metalinguistic	For Lapithai is an ethnic group of Thessaly. There is also Lapithaion as the name of a mountain in Laconia (the same name appears applied to another place).

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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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from 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 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 · 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	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	Χ (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:c22408ee90fd1a1e	*Translate as "X, in book Y of his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.370

char LCS 31 (14.8%) · word LCS 5 (12.5%)

Stephanos

…ίθη, πόλις Θεσσαλίας, ὡς Ἐπαφρόδιτος ἐν τοῖς Ὁμηρικοῖς, ἀπὸ Λαπίθου τοῦ Περίφαντος. οἱ οἰκήτορες Λαπίθαι, οὐκ ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως, ἀλλ´ ἀπὸ τοῦ ἔθνους, ὡς Πισίδαι καὶ Ἴωνες καὶ Θετταλοί. Λαπίθαι γὰρ ἔθνος Θεσσαλίας. ἔστι καὶ Λαπίθαιον ὄνομα ὄρους τῆς Λακωνικῆς.

Herodian

…ονίδος φυλῆς. Παντικάπαιον πόλις μεγίστη, τῶν κατὰ Βόσπορον μητρόπολις. ᾠκίσθη δὲ παρὰ Αἰήτου παιδός, λαβόντος τὸν τόπον παρὰ Ἀγαήτου τοῦ Σκυθῶν βασιλέως καὶ καλέσαντος τὴν πόλιν ἀπὸ τοῦ παραρρέοντος ποταμοῦ Παντικάπου. Λαπίθαιον ὄνομα ὄρους τῆς Λακωνικῆς. Φοινίκαιον ὄρος Κορίνθου. Ἔφορος ἐννεακαιδεκάτῳ. Προστρόπαια πόλις Σικελίας. Τυμέναιον ὄρος περὶ Φρυγίαν. χωρὶς τοῦ Χαλαστραῖον νίτρον καὶ Ἠλακαταῖον ὄρος Θεσσαλίας καὶ Καναστραῖον ἄκρον Θρᾴκης καὶ Μακεδονίας, ὃ καὶ Κά…