Ἀμφιμάλιον - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ἀμφιμάλιον, πόλις Κρήτης, ἀπὸ Ἀμφιμάλου. ὁ πολίτης Ἀμφιμαλιεύς ἢ Ἀμφιμάλιος. λέγεται καὶ Ἀμφίμαλα καὶ τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἀμφιμαλαῖος.

Amphimalion: a city of Crete, from Amphimalos. The citizen Amphimalieus or Amphimalios. Also said Amphimala and the ethnonym Amphimalaios.

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	#295
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 90.9
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-02
Word count	17

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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 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) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.362

char LCS 33 (31.7%) · word LCS 5 (29.4%)

Stephanos

Ἀμφιμάλιον, πόλις Κρήτης, ἀπὸ Ἀμφιμάλου. ὁ πολίτης Ἀμφιμαλιεύς ἢ Ἀμφιμάλιος. λέγεται καὶ Ἀμφίμαλα καὶ τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἀμφιμαλαῖος.

Herodian

…ς ὑπὸ Πηγάσου τελευτᾷ, Βελλεροφόντης δ´ ἀνιαθεὶς ἐπὶ τῷ ἑταίρῳ ἔκτισε Βαργύλια. Ἰδάλιον πόλις Κύπρου. Ὀμφάλιον τόπος Κρήτης πλησίον Θενῶν καὶ Κνωσσοῦ. ἔστι καὶ Θετταλίας. Ἐπιτάλιον πόλις τῆς Τριφυλίας. Πολύβιος τετάρτῃ. Ἀμφιμάλιον πόλις Κρήτης ἀπὸ Ἀμφιμάλου. λέγεται καὶ Ἀμφίμαλα. Σανδάλιον Πισιδίας χωρίον. Ταυροπόλιον ἐν Ἰκαρίᾳ νήσῳ παρακειμένῃ τῇ Σάμῳ Ἀρτέμιδος ἱερόν. Στράβων ιδʹ. Διοβούλιον πολίχνιον πλησίον τοῦ Πόντου. Δασκύλιον πόλις Καρίας ἐπὶ τοῖς ὅροις τῆς Ἐφεσίας ἀ…