Ἀλώιον

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

Ἀλώιον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
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Ἀλώιον, πόλις Θεσσαλίας ἐπὶ τῶν Τέμπεων, ἣν ἔκτισαν οἱ Ἀλωάδαι καθελόντες τοὺς Θρᾷκας. ὡς εἶναι αὐτὴν ἀπὸ Ἀλωέως. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἀλωεύς.

Aloion: a city of Thessaly at Tempe, which the Aloadai founded after destroying the Thracians. So that it is from Aloeus. The ethnonym Aloeus.

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.

Translation Guidance

KindRuleGuidanceDetection
FormulaX (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
FormulaX (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
FormulaX (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
FormulaX (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
FormulaX (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
Formulaτὸ 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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.361
char LCS 90 (84.1%) · word LCS 17 (81.0%)
Stephanos
Ἀλώιον, πόλις Θεσσαλίας ἐπὶ τῶν Τέμπεων, ἣν ἔκτισαν οἱ Ἀλωάδαι καθελόντες τοὺς Θρᾷκας. ὡς εἶναι αὐτὴν ἀπὸ Ἀλωέως. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἀλωεύς.
Herodian
…παρὰ τὸ Ἡρακλέης. σημήϊον, μνημήϊον, βασιλήϊον, παρήϊον «τῆς τήκετο καλὰ παρήϊα» (Od. τ 208). λαισήϊον. λέγονται δὲ πάντα τὰ κατὰ μάχην σκεπαστήρια λαισήϊα διὰ τὸ ἐν τῇ λαιᾷ φέρεσθαι. * Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'ωϊον' προπαροξύνεται. Ἀλώϊον πόλις Θεσσαλίας ἐπὶ τῶν Τέμπεων, ἣν ἔκτισαν οἱ Ἀλωάδαι καθελόντες τοὺς Θρᾷκας. ὡς εἶναι αὐτὴν ἀπὸ Ἀλωέος. Ὁμολώϊον τεμενικὸν κατὰ πλεονασμὸν τοῦ 'ω' ἐκ τοῦ Ὁμόλιον. Πᾶν εἰς 'ιον' ὑπὲρ τρεῖς συλλαβὰς μονογενὲς κύριον ἢ προσηγορικὸν ἢ ὑποκοριστικὸν προπαροξύνεται, Περγάντιον πόλις Λιγύων, Αἰάντιον, Βυζάντιον, ἀρτοπώλιον, π…