Μελία - Stephanos Ethnika

Μελία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μελία, πόλις Καρίας. Ἑκαταῖος γενεαλογιῶν δʹ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μελιεύς ὡς Ὑριεύς.

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Text Details

Entry	#126
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 442.5
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	11

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Γενεαλογιῶν · FGrHist 1 F 11 = fr. 11 Fowler

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μελία	Melia · place
Καρία	Caria · place · corrected · Q193214
Μελιεύς	Melieus (ethnic/demonym) · people
Ὑριεύς	Hyrieus (ethnic/demonym) · people
Μελία	place · explicit · wikidata: Q12272920 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	The ethnicon (demonym) is 'Μελιεύς' (Melieus), as (is) 'Ὑριεύς' (Hyrieus).

Links

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

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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) + 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 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
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.289

char LCS 36 (60.0%) · word LCS 6 (54.5%)

Stephanos

Μελία, πόλις Καρίας. Ἑκαταῖος γενεαλογιῶν δʹ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μελιεύς ὡς Ὑριεύς.

Herodian

…Κλείδημος ἐν πρώτῳ Ἀτθίδος «καὶ ἐξῳκίσθησαν ὑπὲρ τὸν Αἰγιαλὸν ἄνω τῆς καλουμένης Μακετίας». Μαστία πόλις πρὸς ταῖς Ἡρακλείαις στήλαις. Μεδυλλία πόλις, Ἀλβανῶν κτίσις, Ῥωμαίων ἄποικος. Διονύσιος γʹ Ῥωμαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας. Μελία πόλις Καρίας. Ἑκαταῖος γενεαλογιῶν δʹ. Ναυπλία, πόλις Ἄργους. Στράβων ὀγδόῃ «ἀπὸ τοῦ ταῖς ναυσὶ προσπλεῖσθαι». Ξιλία πόλις Λιβύης. Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τρίτῳ Λιβυκῶν. Ὀρεστία τὸ ἥμισυ μέρος Μεγάλης Πόλεως ἀπὸ τῆς τοῦ Ὀρέστου παρουσίας. ἔστι καὶ πόλις ἐν Ὀρέσταις,…