Ἄξος - Stephanos Ethnika

Ἄξος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Ἄξος, πόλις Κρήτης, ὡς Ἡρόδοτος ἐν τετάρτῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἄξιος.

Axos: a city of Crete, as Herodotos in the fourth. The ethnonym Axios.

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	#345
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 102.6
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-02-03
Word count	10

Links

Place links	Oaxos \| 📍 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 (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) + 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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.186

char LCS 34 (70.8%) · word LCS 7 (70.0%)

Stephanos

Ἄξος, πόλις Κρήτης, ὡς Ἡρόδοτος ἐν τετάρτῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἄξιος.

Herodian

…μετὰ δὲ Σίξος πόλις». Φρίξος ἥρως καὶ πόλις Λυκίας, Λίξος ποταμὸς Λιβύης καὶ Μαυριτανίας καὶ ἔθνος. Λάκοξος, Ῥοῖξος ἐπίνειον Κιλικίας ἐπὶ ταῖς ἐκβολαῖς τοῦ Σάρου ποταμοῦ. Κρόξος, Βόξος, Λάοξος ὁ ποταμός. Ὦξος ὁ ποταμός. Ἄξος πόλις Κρήτης ὡς Ἡρόδοτος ἐν τετάρτῃ (c. 154), Νάξος νῆσος τῶν Κυκλάδων ἀπὸ τοῦ Νάξου Καρῶν ἡγεμόνος, ἄλλοι δὲ ἀπὸ Νάξου τοῦ Ἐνδυμίωνος. Εὐφορίων δὲ παρὰ τὸ νάξαι, ὅ φασι θῦσαί τινες. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Σικελίας. καὶ ἄλλοι τόποι Νάξοι. Ὄαξος πόλις Κρήτης Ἐλευθ…