Λᾶος - Stephanos Ethnika

Λᾶος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Λᾶος, πόλις Λευκανίας. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν τῷ περὶ γῆς δευτέρῳ. ἀπὸ Λάου ποταμοῦ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λαῗνος ὡς Ῥηγῖνος.

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Text Details

Entry	#38
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 411.20
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count	17

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀπολλόδωρος (Apollodorus)	Περὶ γῆς β̅ · FGrHist 244 F 323 = fr. 16 Marcotte

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Λᾶος	Laos · place · corrected · Q1805723
Λευκανία	Leucania · place
Λᾶος	Laos (river) · place · corrected · Q1805723
Λαῖνος	Lainos (ethnic/demonym) · other
Ῥηγῖνος	Rheginos (Rhegian) · other
Λᾶος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1805723 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Place Transfer	From the river Laos (i.e., the city is named after the river Laos).
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) is Λαῖνος, formed analogously to Ῥηγῖνος.

Links

Place links	Laüs \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
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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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 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
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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.109

char LCS 43 (50.6%) · word LCS 8 (47.1%)

Stephanos

Λᾶος, πόλις Λευκανίας. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν τῷ περὶ γῆς δευτέρῳ. ἀπὸ Λάου ποταμοῦ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λαῗνος ὡς Ῥηγῖνος.

Herodian

Ἴστρου πηγάς». καὶ παρ´ Ἀττικοῖς δὲ τὰ τῶν οἰκετῶν ὀνόματα Δᾶοι καὶ Γέται. λέγεται δὲ καὶ Δᾶκος. ἔτι καὶ Λᾶος ποταμὸς καὶ πόλις Λευκανίας. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν τῷ περὶ γῆς δευτέρῳ. καὶ Λᾶοι οἱ οἰκοῦντες Λᾶν πόλιν Λακωνικῆς. Χνᾶος ἔθνος. καὶ τὸ πρᾷος δὲ ἐπίθετον. τὸ μέντοι ταός παρ´ Ἀλεξανδρεῦσιν ἀντὶ τοῦ ταὧς σεσημείωται. τὸ δὲ λᾶος παρὰ Σοφοκλεῖ «ἐπ´ ἄκρου λάου» (Oed. Col. 195) ἀπὸ γενικῆς τῆς λ…

Herodian 1.156

char LCS 18 (21.2%) · word LCS 5 (29.4%)

Stephanos

Λᾶος, πόλις Λευκανίας. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν τῷ περὶ γῆς δευτέρῳ. ἀπὸ Λάου ποταμοῦ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λαῗνος ὡς Ῥηγῖνος.

Herodian

…ν εἰς 'λος' λῆγον δισύλλαβον τῇ 'οι' διφθόγγῳ παραληγόμενον βαρύνεται. λέγεται δὲ καὶ κόϊλος. Τὰ εἰς δύο 'λλ' κύρια ἀρσενικὰ βαρύνονται, Ὕλλος υἱὸς Ἡρακλέους, ἀφ´ οὗ Ὑλλεῖς ἔθνος Ἰλλυρικόν, οὓς Ἀπολλόδωρος Ὕλλους γράφει ἐν τῷ περὶ γῆς δευτέρῳ «ὑπὲρ δὲ Ὕλλους Λιβυρνοὶ καί τινες Ἴστροι λεγόμενοι Θρᾷκες». Τέλλος ὁ Ἀθηναῖος Ἡρόδοτος αʹ (c. 30), Μύλλος ποιητὴς κωμικός, Γάλλος ὁ ποταμὸς Φρυγίας· —λέγει δὲ ὁ Πολυίστωρ