Μαχαιροῦς - Stephanos Ethnika

Μαχαιροῦς OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

fortress

Μαχαιροῦς, φρούριον τῆς Ἰουδαίας, ὡς Ἰώσηπος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὤφειλεν ὡς Ἱεριχούντιος. αὐτὸς δὲ Μαχαιρίτας αὐτούς φησι.

Translation pending

Text Details

Entry	#104
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 437.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	16

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἰώσηπος (Josephus)	AJ (Antiquities of the Jews); BJ (The Jewish War) · AJ 14,89 et 18,111; BJ 1,161. 167, etc.

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μαχαιροῦς	Machairous (fortress) · place · corrected · Q1549278
Ἰουδαία	Judea · place · corrected · Q104028
Ἱεριχούντιος	Jerichonian / from Jericho · people
Μαχαιρίτης	Machairitai (the Machairitae) · people
Μαχαιροῦς	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1549278 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Place Transfer	The ethnicon (the name of the inhabitants) was owed to / derived from (being) Jerichonite — i.e. the name derives from Jericho.
Unclear Metalinguistic	But he (Josephus) calls them 'Machairitas' — an alternative naming/ethnic designation.

Links

Place links	Machaerus \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1343.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 · 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	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" 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 1.243

char LCS 38 (40.4%) · word LCS 6 (37.5%)

Stephanos

Μαχαιροῦς, φρούριον τῆς Ἰουδαίας, ὡς Ἰώσηπος. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὤφειλεν ὡς Ἱεριχούντιος. αὐτὸς δὲ Μαχαιρίτας αὐτούς φησι.

Herodian

Ἐπικνημιδίων, λέγεται καὶ Ὀπόεις. ἔστι καὶ Ὀποῦς πόλις Ἀχαΐας καὶ τῆς Ἠλείας ἄλλη. Σιδαροῦς πόλις Λυκίας καὶ λιμήν. Μαχαιροῦς φρούριον τῆς Ἰουδαίας, ὡς Ἰώσηπος. Τραπεζοῦς πόλις πρὸς τῷ Εὐξείνῳ πόντῳ· ἔστι καὶ Ἀρκαδίας πόλις Τραπεζοῦς ἀπὸ Τραπεζοῦντος παιδὸς Λυκάονος, ὡς Παυσανίας ὀγδόῳ ( 3, 3). ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πλησίον τοῦ Ἀραβικοῦ κόλπου. Σολοῦς πόλις Σικελίας, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. …