Μενεκίνη - Stephanos Ethnika

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Μενεκίνη, πόλις Οἰνώτρων ἐν μεσογείᾳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μενεκιναῖος καὶ Μενεκινῖνος διὰ τὴν χώραν.

Menekine: a city of the Oinotrians in the interior. Hekataios in the Europe. The ethnonym Menekinaios and Menekininos because of the land.

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	#143
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 445.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	15

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Εὐρώπῃ · FGrHist 1 F 67b

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μενεκίνη	Menekine (city) · place
Οἴνωτρες	Oenotrians (people of Oenotria) · people · corrected · Q922562
Εὐρώπη	Europe · place
Μενεκιναῖος	Menekinean (demonym) · people
Μενεκινῖνος	Menekinean (alternate demonym) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) 'Menekinaîos' and 'Menekininós' (formed from the place-name) according to the region/land.

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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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
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 · 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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	γένος τό gloss:c746b76469e4485d	descent Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL 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
Gloss	ἔθνος τό gloss:918b9f988d9a14d8	people Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.333

char LCS 45 (50.0%) · word LCS 7 (46.7%)

Stephanos

Μενεκίνη, πόλις Οἰνώτρων ἐν μεσογείᾳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μενεκιναῖος καὶ Μενεκινῖνος διὰ τὴν χώραν.

Herodian

…δος ἅρματος. μυρσίνη καὶ Μυρρίνη διὰ δύο 'ρρ', δωτίνη, πυτίνη, Αἰητίνη, ἰατρίνη, ἡρωΐνη, Ὠκεανίνη, Μολυβδίνη πόλις Μαστιηνῶν. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Μαντίνη ἡ Μαντίνεια, κηρυκίνη, ὀρφίνη, Ἀρικίνη, Ἐρυκίνη, Ἀδρηστίνη, Εὐηνίνη, Μενεκίνη πόλις Οἰνωτρῶν ἐν μεσογείᾳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ, μελίνη κέγχρος, χοιρίνη ἡ δικαστικὴ ψῆφος, Καρίνη ἡ πόλις, Ὑρμίνη πόλις τῆς Ἤλιδος »ὅσσον ἐφ´ Ὑρμίνη καὶ Μύρσινος ἐσχατόωσα« (Β 616). Εὐκολίνη, Λογίνη, Ἀμαντίνη· οὕτως Καλλίμαχος καλεῖ Ἀμαντίαν μοῖραν Ἰλλυριῶν »καὶ Ἀμα…