Μαγνησία - Stephanos Ethnika

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Μαγνησία, πόλις παρὰ τῷ Μαιάνδρῳ καὶ χώρα, ἀπὸ Μάγνητος. ὁ πολίτης Μάγνης ὁμωνύμως τῷ οἰκιστῇ. τὸ θηλυκὸν Μάγνησσα παρὰ Καλλιμάχῳ καὶ Μαγνησίς παρὰ Παρθενίῳ καὶ Μαγνῆτις παρὰ Σοφοκλεῖ.

Magnesia: a city by the Maiandros, and a surrounding territory, named after Magnes. A citizen is a 'Magnes', with the same name as the founder. The feminine is 'Magnessa' in Callimachus, 'Magnesis' in Parthenios, and 'Magnetis' in Sophocles.

Text Details

Entry	#6
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 424.19
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-26
Word count	28
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Καλλίμαχος (Callimachus)	fr. 708 Pfeiffer
Παρθένιος (Parthenius)	fr. 46 Lightfoot = SH 658
Σοφοκλῆς (Sophocles)	fr. 1066 Radt

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μαγνησία	Magnesia · place · corrected · Q920866
Μαίανδρος	Maeander (river) · place · corrected · Q211089
Μάγνης	Magnes · person
Μάγνης	Magnes · person
Μάγνησσα	Magnessa (feminine/demonym) · people
Μαγνησίς	Magnēsis (feminine/demonym) · people
Μαγνῆτις	Magnētis (feminine/demonym) · people
Μαγνησία	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1432674 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from Magnētos (i.e. named after Magnētos).
Eponym Person	the citizen 'Magnēs' is homonymous with the founder (i.e. shares the founder's name).
Morphological Composition	the feminine form 'Māgnessa' according to Callimachus, 'Magnēsis' according to Parthenios, and 'Magnētis' according to Sophocles (variant feminine forms of the place-name).

Links

Place links	Magnesia on the Maeander \| 📍 Map
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1218.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + παρά + τό + Y (ETYMON) formula:e1b19e84652cc7be	Translate as "X is deriving/derives 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	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	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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ὁμωνύμως/ὁμώνυμος -ον gloss:0fbae2a88778c0fa	homonymous, having the same name Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC Rule status: In progress	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.

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.