Μασσία - Stephanos Ethnika

Μασσία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μασσία, χώρα παρακειμένη τοῖς Ταρτησσίοις. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μασσιανός. Θεόπομπος τεσσαρακοστῷ τρίτῳ.

Massia: a land lying beside the Tartessians. The ethnonym Massianos. Theopompos in the forty-third.

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	#91
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 436.6
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-27
Word count	10

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θεόπομπος (Theopompus)	FGrHist 115 F 200

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μασσία	Massia · place · corrected · Q2506350
Ταρτησσῖοι	Tartessians · people
Μασσιανός	Massian (demonym) · people
Μασσία	place · explicit · wikidata: Q2506350 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Mastia
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1328.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:5e7f1861601f28d1	*Translate as "X, book Y in his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X... + πρός + Y (dative) formula:1a524ea80fe79519	Translate as "X... near Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.293

char LCS 36 (45.0%) · word LCS 5 (45.5%)

Stephanos

Μασσία, χώρα παρακειμένη τοῖς Ταρτησσίοις. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μασσιανός. Θεόπομπος τεσσαρακοστῷ τρίτῳ.

Herodian

…ας ὡς Ἀνδροτίων ἐν βʹ Ἀτθίδος. Διονυσία πόλις Ἰταλίας. Δονουσία νῆσος μικρὰ Ῥόδου, εἰς ἣν Διόνυσος ἐξ Νάξου τὴν Ἀριάδνην μετεκόμισε τοῦ πατρὸς Μίνω διώκοντος αὐτήν. ἔοικε οὖν Διονυσία εἶναι καὶ κατὰ παραφθορὰν Δονουσία. Μασσία χώρα παρακειμένη τοῖς Ταρτησσίοις. Ἑκατησία· οὕτως ἡ Ἰδριὰς πόλις ἐκαλεῖτο Καρίας. Μολοσσία ἡ χώρα τῆς Ἠπείρου. Μυσία ἡ χώρα καὶ πόλις. Λυδοὶ δὲ τὴν ὀξύην μυσόν φασι. Νικασία νησίδιον μικρὸν πλησίον Νάξου. Παρρασία πόλις Ἀρκαδίας. Ὅμηρος (Β 608) «Στύμφη…