Μελάμπεια - Stephanos Ethnika

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Μελάμπεια, πόλις Λυδίας, ἀπὸ Μελάμπου, ὡς Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακοῖς. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μελαμπεύς ὡς Σελευκεύς Ἀλεξανδρεύς.

Melampeia: a city of Lydia, from Melampous, as Xanthos in the Lydiaka. The ethnonym Melampeus as 'Seleukeus' 'Alexandreus'.

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	#122
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 441.16
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	15

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μελαμπεία	Melampeia · place
Λυδία	Lydia · place · corrected · Q620765
Μελάμβος	Melambos · person
Ξάνθος	Xanthus · place · corrected · Q534163
Λυδιακοί	Lydians · people
Μελαμπεύς	Melampeus (ethnic) · people
Σελευκεύς	Seleukeus (ethnic) · people
Ἀλεξανδρεύς	Alexandrian (ethnic) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from Melambos (i.e., named after Melambos)
Morphological Composition	the ethnic/demonym 'Melampeus' formed like 'Seleukeus', 'Alexandreus' (i.e., formation of the ethnicon using the -εύς suffix)

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative BOOK NAME) formula:c795eaabedf9a542	*Translate as "Χ, in his Y"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 AUTHOR NAME)... + ὡς αὐτός formula:4caae33810f40dfa	Translate as "X... as per X." Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 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 · 3 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	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	Χ (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:c22408ee90fd1a1e	*Translate as "X, in book Y of his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 4 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 1.279

char LCS 50 (55.6%) · word LCS 9 (60.0%)

Stephanos

Μελάμπεια, πόλις Λυδίας, ἀπὸ Μελάμπου, ὡς Ξάνθος ἐν Λυδιακοῖς. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μελαμπεύς ὡς Σελευκεύς Ἀλεξανδρεύς.

Herodian

…λλίμαχος 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 οἵ τε Μίδειαν» (Β 507). ἔστι καὶ Λυκίας ἄλλη. Μολύνδεια πόλις…