Μάρεια - Stephanos Ethnika

Μάρεια OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μάρεια, πόλις καὶ λίμνη τῇ Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ παρακειμένη, ἣ καὶ Μαρεῶτις λέγεται. ἀφ´ ἧς καὶ Μαρεώτης οἶνος.

Mareia: a city and lake lying beside Alexandreia, which is also called Mareotis. From which also Mareotic wine.

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	#67
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 432.19
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-27
Word count	16

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μαρεία	Mareia · place · corrected · Q2082231
Ἀλεξανδρεία	Alexandria · place
Μαρεῶτις	Mareotis · place
Μαρεώτης	Mareotis (wine) · other
Μάρεια	place · explicit · wikidata: Q2082231 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	which is also called 'Mareotis'.
Place Transfer	from which (comes) 'Mareotis' wine (i.e., the wine is named after the place).

Links

Place links	Lake Mariout \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1290.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · medium 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
Formula	X... πλησίον + Y. (genitive) formula:3d243d130e764a8b	Translate as "X... near Y" 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 1.279

char LCS 62 (75.6%) · word LCS 11 (68.8%)

Stephanos

Μάρεια, πόλις καὶ λίμνη τῇ Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ παρακειμένη, ἣ καὶ Μαρεῶτις λέγεται. ἀφ´ ἧς καὶ Μαρεώτης οἶνος.

Herodian

…ωός. Λιρνύτεια πόλις Παμφυλίας. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Λυκώρεια κώμη ἐν Δελφοῖς. Καλλίμαχος ἐν τρίτῳ. ἀπὸ Λυκωρέως τοῦ βασιλέως. Λυσιμάχεια πόλις τῆς Θρᾴκης χερρονήσου ἡ πρότερον Καρδία. Μακύνεια πόλις Αἰτωλίας. Στράβων δεκάτῃ. Μάρεια πόλις καὶ λίμνη τῇ Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ παρακειμένη, ἣ καὶ Μαρεῶτις λέγεται. Μελάμπεια πόλις Λυδίας ἀπὸ Μελάμπου, ὡς Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακοῖς. Μίδεια πόλις ἐν Ἄργει ἀπὸ Μιδείας τῆς Ἀλωέος θυγατρός. λέγεται καὶ χωρὶς τοῦ 'ι' Μιδέα. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα πόλις Βοιωτίας. Ὅμηρος «οἵ τε πολυστάφυλον Ἄρνην ἔχον …