Λυδία - Stephanos Ethnika

Λυδία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

region

Λυδία, ἡ χώρα. Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακῶν πρώτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λυδός καὶ Λυδαί.

Lydia: the land. Xanthos in the first of the Lydiaka. The ethnonym Lydos and Lydai.

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	#93
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 420.9
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count	12

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Λυδία	Lydia · place · corrected · Q534163
Ξάνθος	Xanthus · place
Λυδός	Lydian (ethnic) · people
Λυδαί	Lydai / the Lydians (ethnic) · people
Λυδία	place · explicit · wikidata: Q620765 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	Lydia: the country/region.
Unclear Metalinguistic	Xanthus (author) in his 'Lydiaca' (reference to Xanthus of Lydia).
Unclear Metalinguistic	the ethnicon (demonym) 'Lydos' and 'Lydae' (forms of the name for inhabitants).

Links

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

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS 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	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.288

char LCS 31 (58.5%) · word LCS 7 (58.3%)

Stephanos

Λυδία, ἡ χώρα. Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακῶν πρώτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λυδός καὶ Λυδαί.

Herodian

…λέγεται καὶ Κανθήλη. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Κανταβρία χώρα. Στράβων τρίτῃ. Καρπηΐα· οὕτως τινὲς Κάλπην πόλιν Βιθυνίας φασίν. Κεκροπία χώρα. Κορησσία πολίχνιον τῆς Κέω καὶ ἐπίνειον. Κωρυκία ἀκρωτήριον Κρήτης καὶ λιμὴν Αἰθιοπίας. Λυδία ἡ χώρα. Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακῶν πρώτῳ. Λυκία ἡ χώρα ἀπὸ Λύκου τοῦ Πανδίονος· ἔστι καὶ Λυκία ἡ πρὸς Κιλικίαν, ἧς ἦρχε Σαρπηδών. Λυρνατία