Λουσοί - Stephanos Ethnika

Λουσοί OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Λουσοί, πόλις Ἀρκαδίας, ὅπου Μελάμπους ἔλουσε τὰς Προίτου θυγατέρας καὶ ἔπαυσε τῆς μανίας. ὁ πολίτης Λούσιος καὶ Λουσεύς καὶ Λουσιάτης.

Lousoi: a city of Arkadia, where Melampous washed the daughters of Proitos and stopped their madness. The citizen Lousios and Louseus and Lousiates.

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	#90
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 419.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count	20

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Λούσοι	Lousoi (town in Arcadia) · place · corrected · Q1572206
Ἀρκαδία	Arcadia · place · corrected · Q12898802
Μελάμπους	Melampus · person
Προῖτος	Proitos · person
Λούσιος	Lousios (a citizen of Lousoi) · people
Λουσεύς	Louseus (demonym) · people
Λουσιάτης	Lousiates (demonym) · people
Λουσοί	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1572206 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Folk Etymology Narrative	Lousoi: a city of Arcadia, where Melampus washed the daughters of Proetus and ended their madness. The citizen is called Lousios and Louseus and Lousiates.

Links

Place links	Lousoi \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1173.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	πολίτης ὁ gloss:1c7dda400d7265cb	citizen Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	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 1.206

char LCS 75 (67.0%) · word LCS 13 (65.0%)

Stephanos

Λουσοί, πόλις Ἀρκαδίας, ὅπου Μελάμπους ἔλουσε τὰς Προίτου θυγατέρας καὶ ἔπαυσε τῆς μανίας. ὁ πολίτης Λούσιος καὶ Λουσεύς καὶ Λουσιάτης.

Herodian

…ὼ προσορμίζουσαν ἐκεῖσε παῖσαι καὶ προσεγγίσαι. Παισός καὶ ἐν πλεονασμῷ τοῦ 'α' Ἀπαισός ὥσπερ Ἄταρνα πόλις καὶ Τάρνα. Ὅμηρος «ὃς ἐκ Τάρνης ἐριβώλακος» (Il. Ε 44). ἔστι καὶ Δαυνίας πόλις Παισός κατ´ Ἀργύριππα. Λουσός καὶ Λουσοί πόλις Ἀρκαδίας, ὅπου Μελάμπους ἔλουσε τὰς Προίτου θυγατέρας καὶ ἔπαυσε τῆς μανίας. λέγεται δὲ καὶ Λοῦσα οὐδετέρως. Πραισός πόλις. Μαυσός κώμη Κορίνθου. Θεόπομπος τριακοστῷ δευτέρῳ. καὶ τὰ ἐπιθετικὰ δέ,