Μαρσύα - Stephanos Ethnika

Μαρσύα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μαρσύα, πόλις Φοινίκης, ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος καὶ Φίλων, ἀπὸ Μάρσου. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μαρσηνός τῷ τῆς Ἀσίας τύπῳ.

Marsya: a city of Phoenicia, as Alexander and Philon, from Marsos. The ethnonym Marsenos by the type of Asia.

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	#80
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 434.10
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-27
Word count	16

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀλέξανδρος (Alexander)	FGrHist 273 F 128
Φίλων (Philon (Philo))	FGrHist 790 F 42

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μαρσύα	Marsya (Marsya) · place
Φοινίκη	Phoenicia · place · corrected · Q41642
Μάρσος	Marsos / Marsus · person
Μαρσυηνός	Marsian (ethnic name) · people
Ἀσία	Asia · place
Μαρσύα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q599737 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from Marsos (i.e., named after Marsos)
Morphological Composition	the ethnicon Μαρσυηνός in the Asiatic form/type

Links

Place links	Marsyas
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1307.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 · 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 (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 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	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
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	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 1.303

char LCS 29 (36.7%) · word LCS 6 (37.5%)

Stephanos

Μαρσύα, πόλις Φοινίκης, ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος καὶ Φίλων, ἀπὸ Μάρσου. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μαρσηνός τῷ τῆς Ἀσίας τύπῳ.

Herodian

ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος καὶ Φίλων, ἀπὸ Μάρσου. Μινύα πόλις Θεσσαλίας ἡ πρότερον Ἁλμωνία ἀπὸ Μινύου κληθεῖσα ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα ἐν τοῖς ὁρίοις Λυκίας. Κρύα πόλις Λυκίας. Ἀρτεμίδωρος. Ἁλικύαι πόλις Σικελίας. Θεόπομπος. μεταξὺ κειμένη Ἐντέλλης καὶ Λιλυβαίου. Καφύαι πόλις …