Λίνον - Stephanos Ethnika

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place

Λίνον, χωρίον τῆς Ἑλλησποντίας. Στράβων τρισκαιδεκάτῃ “μεταξὺ δὲ κεῖται τοῦ Παρίου καὶ τοῦ Πριάπου κατὰ Λίνον”. οἱ οἰκοῦντες Λινούσιοι.

Linon: a place of the Hellespontine. Strabo in the thirteenth: "it lies between Parion and Priapos at Linon". The inhabitants Linousioi.

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	#74
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 418.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-27
Word count	19

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	ιγ̅ (13,1,15 [C 588,31])

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Λίνον	Linon (Linum) · place · corrected · Q65073212
Ἑλλησποντία	Hellespont · place · corrected · Q6514
Παρίον	Parion · place · corrected · Q1411652
Πρίαπος	Priapus (town) · place · corrected · Q127431070
Λινούσιοι	the Linousians (inhabitants of Linon) · people
Linos in Hellespontis	place · village · Hellespontis · explicit · unresolved

Links

Place links	Linus
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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 (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 (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	κεῖται gloss:ab7a888bea5343a6	is situated Domain: MEASUREMENT & SPACE Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χωρίον τό gloss:619c2907ea980b25	locality; point (only in μέσα χωρία: ‘halfway point’) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL 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 1.378

char LCS 91 (82.0%) · word LCS 16 (84.2%)

Stephanos

Λίνον, χωρίον τῆς Ἑλλησποντίας. Στράβων τρισκαιδεκάτῃ “μεταξὺ δὲ κεῖται τοῦ Παρίου καὶ τοῦ Πριάπου κατὰ Λίνον”. οἱ οἰκοῦντες Λινούσιοι.

Herodian

…νους εἰρημένων καὶ τῶν εἰς 'ρ' καὶ τῶν εἰς 'τ' περατουμένων. παροξύνεται δὲ ταῦτα, ῥόδον, ἔργον, φύλλον, λίνον ὅτι ἂν σημαίνῃ, εἴτε τὴν λινῆν ἐσθῆτα εἴτε καὶ ἐπὶ χορδῆς τάσσοιτο εἴτε καὶ αὐτὸ τὸ λεπτὸν νῆμα. ἔστι δὲ καὶ Λίνον χωρίον τῆς Ἑλλησποντίας. Στράβων τρισκαιδεκάτῃ «μεταξὺ δὲ κεῖται τοῦ Παρίου καὶ τοῦ Πριάπου κατὰ Λίνον». Σπάδα κώμη Περσική, ἐν ᾗ πρώτῃ εὐνουχισμὸς γέγονεν, ὅθεν σπάδοι λέγονται. Πέφνον πόλις Λακωνική. Ἀπολλόδωρος δὲ νῆσον αὐτήν φησι. λέγεται καὶ θηλυκῶς. Πράσον ἀκρωτήριον περὶ τὴν Ἐρυθρὰν θάλασσαν. Κύτα πόλις Κολχική, π…