Λύκτος - Stephanos Ethnika

Λύκτος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Λύκτος, πόλις Κρήτης, ἀπὸ Λύκτου τοῦ Λυκάονος. ἔνιοι Λύττον αὐτὴν φασὶν διὰ τὸ κεῖσθαι ἐν μετεώρῳ τόπῳ. τὸ γὰρ ἄνω καὶ ὑψηλὸν λύττον φασί. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λύκτιος, καὶ θηλυκὸν Λυκτηίς.

Lyktos: a city of Crete, from Lyktos the son of Lykaon. Some call it Lyttos because it lies in a lofty place. For they call what is up and high 'lytton'. The ethnonym Lyktios, and feminine Lykteis.

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	#106
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 422.5
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count	30

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Λύκτος	Lyttos (Lyttus) · place
Κρήτη	Crete · place · corrected · Q4752820
Λυκάων	Lycaon · person · corrected · Q5016671
Λύττος	Lyttos (variant) · place
Λύκτος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1001533 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	From Lykton, son of Lykaon (i.e., named after Lykton/Lykaon).
Morphological Composition	Some say it (is) Lytton because it lies in a lofty/elevated place; for they say 'λύττον' means 'upper' and 'high'.

Links

Place links	Lyctus \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1184.jpg
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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 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 ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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	καί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN) formula:0af867b3dd6df580	Translate as "Y is also 'X'" 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	κεῖται gloss:ab7a888bea5343a6	is situated Domain: MEASUREMENT & SPACE 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 1.217

char LCS 64 (44.8%) · word LCS 15 (50.0%)

Stephanos

Λύκτος, πόλις Κρήτης, ἀπὸ Λύκτου τοῦ Λυκάονος. ἔνιοι Λύττον αὐτὴν φασὶν διὰ τὸ κεῖσθαι ἐν μετεώρῳ τόπῳ. τὸ γὰρ ἄνω καὶ ὑψηλὸν λύττον φασί. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λύκτιος, καὶ θηλυκὸν Λυκτηίς.

Herodian

…λαβα μονογενῆ ἀπὸ τῆς 'οι' διφθόγγου ἀρχόμενα βαρύνεσθαι, ὁπότε πρὸ τῆς 'ος' συλλαβῆς σύμφωνον ἢ σύμφωνα ὑπάρχει— καὶ τὸ ἄρκτος καὶ πέκτος ὁ πόκος καὶ τὸ κάκτος. καὶ Λύκτος πόλις Κρήτης ἀπὸ Λύκτου τοῦ Λυκάονος· ἔνιοι δὲ Λύττον αὐτήν φασιν διὰ τὸ κεῖσθαι ἐν μετεώρῳ τόπῳ. τὸ γὰρ ἄνω καὶ ὑψηλὸν λύττον