Μέντυρνα - Stephanos Ethnika

Μέντυρνα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Μέντυρνα, πόλις ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ Σαυνιτῶν. Διονύσιος ἑκκαιδεκάτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεντυρναῖος.

Mentyrna: a city in Italy of the Samnites. Dionysios in the sixteenth. The ethnonym Mentyrnaios.

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	#147
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 445.13
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	10

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Διονύσιος (Dionysius)	vol. 4, p. 282 Jacoby
Jacoby (Jacoby (Felix Jacoby))	vol. 4, p. 282

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μέντυρνα	Menturna · place · corrected · Q18170298
Ἰταλία	Italy · place
Σαυνῖται	Samnites · people · corrected · Q500272
Μεντυρναῖος	Menturnaean (ethnic name) · people
Μέντυρνα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q18170298 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Minturnae \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1412.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:5e7f1861601f28d1	*Translate as "X, book Y in his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · medium confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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	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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.257

char LCS 49 (71.0%) · word LCS 7 (70.0%)

Stephanos

Μέντυρνα, πόλις ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ Σαυνιτῶν. Διονύσιος ἑκκαιδεκάτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεντυρναῖος.

Herodian

…Μηκύβερνα πόλις Παλλήνης τῆς ἐν Θρᾴκῃ χερρονήσου. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Ἐλεύθερνα πόλις Κρήτης ἀφ´ ἑνὸς τῶν Κουρήτων. Κάλαρνα πόλις Μακεδονίας, ὡς Λούκιος ὁ Ταρραῖος. Σάμορνα· οὕτως ἡ Ἔφεσος ἐκαλεῖτο. Φαλάσαρνα πόλις Κρήτης. Μέντυρνα πόλις ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ Σαυνιτῶν. Διονύσιος ἑκκαιδεκάτῳ. Ἱεράπυτνα πόλις Κρήτης. * Τὰ εἰς 'ννα' προπαροξύνεται, Φάλαννα πόλις Περραιβίας ἀπὸ Φαλάννης τῆς Τυροῦς θυγατρός. Λυκόφρων (v. 906) »Γόννον Φάλανναν ἠδ´ Ὀλοσσόνων γύας«. Ἑκαταῖος ἱστοριῶν αʹ Ἱππίαν αὐτὴν καλεῖ καὶ Ἔφορ…