Μένδη - Stephanos Ethnika

Μένδη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μένδη, πόλις Θρᾴκης, ἀπὸ Μένδης γυναικός. Ἀπολλόδωρος Μένδιν αὐτήν φησι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μενδαῖος οἶνος.

Mende: a city of Thrace, from Mende, a woman. Apollodoros calls it Mendis. The ethnonym Mendaios, Mendaian wine.

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	#140
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 444.15
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	14

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀπολλόδωρος (Apollodorus)	FGrHist 244 F 195

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μένδη	Mende · place · corrected · Q3305786
Θρᾴκη	Thrace · place · corrected · Q41741
Μένδη	Mende (female eponym) · person · corrected · Q3305786
Μένδη	Mende · place · corrected · Q3305786
Μενδαῖος	Mendaean (ethnic) · people
Μένδη	place · explicit · wikidata: Q3305786 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from Mende (a woman) — named after a woman called Mende.
Unclear Metalinguistic	Apollodorus (FGrHist 244 F 195) says it (the city) is 'Mendin' (gives the form/name Mendin).
Unclear Metalinguistic	the ethnicon (demonym) 'Mendaíos'.

Links

Place links	Mende \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1410.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 · 2 scan rows · 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 (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
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people 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 1.311

char LCS 48 (59.3%) · word LCS 7 (50.0%)

Stephanos

Μένδη, πόλις Θρᾴκης, ἀπὸ Μένδης γυναικός. Ἀπολλόδωρος Μένδιν αὐτήν φησι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μενδαῖος οἶνος.

Herodian

προσηγορικὰ ὄντα ὀξύνεται, χορδή, σπονδή. τὸ μέντοι Χόνδη κύριον βαρύνεται καὶ τὸ Μένδη πόλις Θρᾴκης ἀπὸ Μένδης γυναικός. Ἀπολλόδωρος Μένδαν αὐτήν φησι, καὶ τὸ Τίνδη Θρᾴκης Χαλκιδικὴ πόλις καὶ τὸ ἄλδη. Τὰ εἰς 'δη' προσηγορικὰ μακρᾷ παραληγόμενα ὀξύνεται, ᾠδή, ἀοιδή, σπουδή, ἐδωδή, αὐδή. τὸ μέντοι Λήδη κύριον, καὶ Ἴδη Τροίας ὄρος. Ὅμηρος (Il. Γ 276) »Ἴδηθεν…