Μεναί - Stephanos Ethnika

Μεναί OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μεναί, πόλις Σικελίας ἐγγὺς Παλικῶν. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν δευτέρῳ χρονικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεναῖος, ὡς Ἁλικύαι Ἁλικυαῖος.

Menai: a city of Sicily near Palikoi. Apollodoros in the second of the Chronika. The ethnonym Menaios, as 'Halikyai' 'Halikyaios'.

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	#139
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 444.12
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	15

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀπολλόδωρος (Apollodorus)	β Χρονικῶν · FGrHist 244 F 5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μεναί	Menai · place
Σικελία	Sicily · place · corrected · Q4951156
Παλίκοι	Palici · deity
Μεναῖος	Menaios (demonym) · people
Ἁλικύαι	Halikyai (place) · place
Ἁλικυαῖος	Halikyaios (demonym) · people
Μεναί	place · explicit · wikidata: Q11936447 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnic (demonym) is 'Μεναῖος' (Menaios), formed analogously to Ἁλικυαί → Ἁλικυαῖος.

Links

Place links	Menae
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1410.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 (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 (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from 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 · 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
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 1.329

char LCS 58 (63.0%) · word LCS 9 (60.0%)

Stephanos

Μεναί, πόλις Σικελίας ἐγγὺς Παλικῶν. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν δευτέρῳ χρονικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεναῖος, ὡς Ἁλικύαι Ἁλικυαῖος.

Herodian

…υσιανή ἡ χώρα καὶ κώμη Σουσιανή. Συρβανή νῆσος ἐν τῷ Εὐφράτῃ. Τὰ εἰς 'νη' δισύλλαβα τῷ 'ε' παραληγόμενα καὶ βαρύνεται καὶ ὀξύνεται. βαρύνεται τὸ ἔνη, ὀξύνεται τὸ Θεναί πόλις Κρήτης, τινὲς δὲ Ἀρκαδίας. οἱ δ´ ὄρος· καὶ τὸ Μεναί πόλις Σικελίας ἐγγὺς Παλικῶν. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν δευτέρῳ χρονικῶν. καὶ τὸ εὐνή μετὰ τοῦ 'υ'. γέγονε γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ εἷς ἑνός ἑνή καὶ εὐνή, ψιλουμένης τῆς 'ευ' διφθόγγου, ἐπεὶ τὸ 'υ' πλεονάζον ψιλοῖ τὰ πρὸ ἑαυτοῦ φωνήεντα, ἕκηλος εὔκηλος, ἕαδε εὔαδε. εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ Εὐναί πόλις Καρίας, ἐν ᾗ πο…