Λιπάρα - Stephanos Ethnika

Λιπάρα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

island

Λιπάρα, νῆσος μεγίστη τῶν ἑπτὰ τῶν Αἰόλου, ἣ Μελιγουνίς ἐκαλεῖτο, πλησίον Σικελίας, ἀπὸ Λιπάρου τοῦ Αὔσονος υἱοῦ. λέγεται καὶ πληθυντικῶς. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λιπαραῖος.

Lipara: the largest island of the seven of Aiolos, which was called Meligounis, near Sicily, from Liparos the son of Auson. Also said in the plural. The ethnonym Liparaios.

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	#77
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 418.8
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-27
Word count	23

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Λιπάρα	Lipara (island) · place · corrected · Q58878895
Αἴολος	Aeolus · deity · corrected · Q179883
Μελιγουνίς	Meligunis (alternate name) · place
Σικελία	Sicily · place · corrected · Q4951156
Λίπαρος	Liparus (person) · person
Αὔσων	Auson / Ausonus (person) · person
Λιπαραῖος	Liparaean (ethnic name) · people
Λιπάρα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q58878895 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	Named from Liparus, son of Auson (i.e. the island is named after Liparus, the son of Auson).
Unclear Metalinguistic	Which was called Meligounis (i.e. the island bore the alternative name Meligounis).

Links

Place links	Lipara \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1157.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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... πλησίον + Y. (genitive) formula:3d243d130e764a8b	Translate as "X... near Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	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 1.259

char LCS 62 (47.3%) · word LCS 10 (43.5%)

Stephanos

Λιπάρα, νῆσος μεγίστη τῶν ἑπτὰ τῶν Αἰόλου, ἣ Μελιγουνίς ἐκαλεῖτο, πλησίον Σικελίας, ἀπὸ Λιπάρου τοῦ Αὔσονος υἱοῦ. λέγεται καὶ πληθυντικῶς. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Λιπαραῖος.

Herodian

…βὰς παροξύνεται, Κυπάρα κρήνη Σικελίας, ἣ καὶ Ἀρέθουσα ἐλέγετο, Βατεράρα πόλις Λιγύων. Ἰνδάρα Σικανῶν πόλις. Θεόπομπος. Καμάρα πόλις Κρήτης, ἥτις Λατώ ἐλέγετο. Λιπάρα νῆσος μεγίστη τῶν ἑπτὰ τοῦ Αἰόλου, ἣ Μελιγουνὶς ἐλέγετο, πλησίον Σικελίας, ἀπὸ Λιπάρου τοῦ Αὔσονος υἱοῦ. λέγεται καὶ πληθυντικῶς. Μακκάραι χώρα ὑπὲρ Φάρσαλον. Θεόπομπος πέμπτῳ Φιλιππικῶν. * Τὰ εἰς 'ερα' δισύλλαβα μακροκατάληκτα βαρύνεται, ἔρα, Δέρα ὄνομα τόπου Λακωνικῆς, Μέρα ὄνομα πόλεως, δέρα, τοῦτο δὲ παρὰ τῷ ποιητῇ διὰ τῆς 'ει' διφθόγγου γράφ…