Ἀλωπεκόννησος - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἀλωπεκόννησος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Ἀλωπεκόννησος, πόλις τῆς Ἑλλησποντίας χερρονήσου, κατὰ χρησμὸν κτισθεῖσα, κελεύσαντα, ἔνθα ἂν σκύλακας ἴδωσιν ἀλώπεκος, ἐκεῖ πόλιν οἰκίσαι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἀλωπεκοννήσιος. ἐκλήθησαν δὲ ὅτι, ὅτε ἔκτιζον τὴν πόλιν, ἀλώπηξ σκύμνον ἄλλοθεν φέρουσα κατετίθετο.

Alopekonnesos: a city of the Hellespontine Chersonese, founded according to an oracle which ordered that where they should see the cubs of a fox, there they should settle a city. The ethnonym Alopekonnesios. They were so named because, when they were founding the city, a fox carrying a cub from elsewhere set it down.

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	#242
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 80.13
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-02
Word count	32

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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 (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
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	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

Herodian overlaps

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

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