Μελανίππιον - Stephanos Ethnika

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Μελανίππιον, πόλις Παμφυλίας. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. τινὲς δὲ Λυκίας φασί. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μελανιππεύς καὶ Μελανίππιος.

Melanippion: a city of Pamphylia. Hekataios in the Asia. Some say of Lycia. The ethnonym Melanippeus and Melanippios.

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	#124
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 441.21
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	14

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Ἀσία · FGrHist 1 F 259

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μελανίππιον	Melanippion · place · corrected · Q6011357
Παμφυλία	Pamphylia · place · corrected · Q585250
Ἀσία	Asia · place
Λυκία	Lycia · place · corrected · Q18927
Μελανιππιεύς	Melanippieus (demonym) · other
Μελανίππιος	Melanippios (demonym) · other
Melanippion in Pamphylia	place · city · Pamphylia · explicit · unresolved

Links

Place links	Melanippion \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1391.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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	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 1.365

char LCS 54 (61.4%) · word LCS 9 (64.3%)

Stephanos

Μελανίππιον, πόλις Παμφυλίας. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. τινὲς δὲ Λυκίας φασί. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μελανιππεύς καὶ Μελανίππιος.

Herodian

ἐπιτιθέμενον τοῖς ἵπποις δέρμα ἀνὰ τὰς ὄψεις. εἰσώπιον, Μεσσάπιον ὄρος Εὐβοίας ἀπὸ Μεσσάπου τοῦ μετοικήσαντος εἰς Ἰταλίαν. Μελανίππιον πόλις Παμφυλίας. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ, τινὲς δὲ Λυκίας φασί. Ἐλλόπιον πόλις Αἰτωλίας. Πολύβιος ιαʹ. Τριόπιον πόλις Καρίας ἀπὸ Τριόπου τοῦ πατρὸς Ἐρυσίχθονος. λέγεται καὶ Τριοπία. Αἰθόπιον χωρίον Λυδίας παρὰ Ὕλλῳ ἢ πλησίον τοῦ Εὐρίπου, ἀφ´ οὗ ἡ Ἄρτεμις Αἰθοπία. οἱ δὲ ὅτι παρὰ τοῖ…