Μαλσάνη - Stephanos Ethnika

Μαλσάνη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μαλσάνη, πόλις τῆς εὐδαίμονος Ἀραβίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μαλσανίτης· ἐπιχώριος γὰρ ὁ τύπος.

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Text Details

Entry	#43
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 430.11
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-27
Word count	12

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μαλσάνη	Malsanē (city) · place
Εὐδαίμων Ἀραβία	Eudaemon ("Prosperous") Arabia · place · corrected · Q544230
Μαλσανίτης	Malsanite (inhabitant of Malsanē) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	The ethnic (gentilic) 'Malasanites' — for the form is local/indigenous.

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 · 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	ἐπιχώριος -α -ον (κατὰ τὸν ἐπιχώριον) gloss:a5a8d4938aac5b47	local (in the local form) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC 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 1.328

char LCS 32 (46.4%) · word LCS 5 (41.7%)

Stephanos

Μαλσάνη, πόλις τῆς εὐδαίμονος Ἀραβίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μαλσανίτης· ἐπιχώριος γὰρ ὁ τύπος.

Herodian

…ὸν Ἀμενανὸν ποταμὸν ἡ Θεοκλέους τοῦ Χαλκιδέως ναῦς, ἣν Δωριεῖς χωρὶς τοῦ 'υ' νᾶν φασιν, ἢ ὅτι τῆς Αἴτνης κατατεθείσης τὸ ἄνω κάτω γέγονεν. Μασχάνη πόλις πρὸς τῶν Σκηνιτῶν Ἀράβων. Κορομάνη πόλις πρὸς τὸν Περσικὸν κόλπον. Μαλσάνη πόλις τῆς εὐδαίμονος Ἀραβίας. Πιτάνη πόλις Αἰολίδος. Σικάνη πόλις Ἰβηρίας, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Ῥωγάνη πόλις ἐν τῇ Ἰνδικῇ. Στεφάνη πόλις Φωκίδος. Ταπροβάνη νῆσος μεγίστη ἐν τῇ Ἰνδικῇ θαλάσσῃ. Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ καὶ Λύχνος νῆσος τετράπλευρος, ἁλιστέφανος Τ…