Μάσκωτος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Μάσκωτος, πόλις Λιβύης. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσεως [βʹ]. ἔστι δὲ πλησίον τῶν Ἑσπερίδων. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μασκωτίτης, Λιβυκῷ καὶ Αἰγυπτίῳ τύπῳ.

Maskotos: a city of Libya. Hekataios in the Periegesis. It is near Hesperides. The ethnonym Maskotites, by the Libyan and Egyptian type.

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	#86
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 435.11
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-27
Word count	18

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Περιηγήσεως <β̄> · FGrHist 1 F 333

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μάσκωτος	Maskotos (city) · place
Λιβύη	Libya · place · corrected · Q2370577
Ἑσπερίδες	Hesperides · deity
Μασκωτίτης	Maskotite (demonym of Maskotos) · people
Μάσκωτος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q108658367 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Maskotos (Pauly-Wissowa)
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1316.jpg
Review	Open review page

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 (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	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

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.222

char LCS 39 (37.5%) · word LCS 6 (33.3%)

Stephanos

Μάσκωτος, πόλις Λιβύης. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσεως [βʹ]. ἔστι δὲ πλησίον τῶν Ἑσπερίδων. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μασκωτίτης, Λιβυκῷ καὶ Αἰγυπτίῳ τύπῳ.

Herodian

… στερητικὸν προπαροξύνεται, ἄγνωτος, ἄτρωτος, ἄπτωτος, ἄζωτος· ἔστι καὶ Ἄζωτος πόλις Παλαιστίνης. καὶ ἔτι τὰ σύνθετα, ἀνακίδωτος ἄνευ ἀκίδος, ἀπύργωτος, πολύγνωτος, ἀκηλίδωτος. σεσημείωται τὸ Ἄσβωτος πόλις Θεσσαλίας καὶ Μάσκωτος πόλις Λιβύης. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσεως βʹ. Τὰ εἰς 'τος' ὑπερδισύλλαβα κύρια καὶ προσηγορικὰ ἔννοιαν συνθέσεως ἔχοντα καὶ ἔτι τὴν παραλήγουσαν εἰς ἀμετάβολον καταλήγουσαν βαρύνεται, εἰ μὴ διαστολή τις γένοιτο, Ἁλίαρτος πόλις Βοιωτίας ἀρσενικῶς. Ὅμηρος «ποιήενθ´…