Μεσόλα - Stephanos Ethnika

Μεσόλα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μεσόλα, πόλις Μεσσήνης, μία τῶν πέντε. Νικόλαος τετάρτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεσολάτης, ὡς τῆς Μεσόας Μεσοάτης.

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Text Details

Entry	#156
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 447.1
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	15

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Νικόλαος (Nikolaos)	FGrHist 90 F 32

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μεσόλα	Mesola · place · corrected · Q313924
Μεσσήνη	Messene · place · corrected · Q1247159
Μεσολάτης	Mesolates (demonym) · people
Μεσόα	Mesoa · place
Μεσοάτης	Mesoates (demonym) · people
Μεσόλα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q2537068 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnic/demonym 'Μεσολάτης', as (formed) from 'Μεσόα' (Μεσοάτης).

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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 · 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	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 · 2 scan rows · 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 · 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 · 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	ὡς + X (definite ARTICLE + ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:bcd70ae781e7b205	Translate as "just as 'Y' is from the name X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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
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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.255

char LCS 45 (54.9%) · word LCS 8 (53.3%)

Stephanos

Μεσόλα, πόλις Μεσσήνης, μία τῶν πέντε. Νικόλαος τετάρτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεσολάτης, ὡς τῆς Μεσόας Μεσοάτης.

Herodian

…νυμος. Ἡρόδοτος δευτέρᾳ (c. 98) »Τουτέων δὲ ἡ μὲν Ἄνθυλλα ἐοῦσα λογίμη πόλις ἐς ὑποδήματα ἐξαίρετος«. Ἴβυλλα πόλις Ταρτησσίας. Ἀρίστυλλα, φθίνυλλα. Ἔχετλα πόλις Σικελίας. ταῦτα μὲν οὖν προπαροξύνονται, παροξύνεται δὲ τὸ Μεσόλα πόλις Μεσσήνης, μία τῶν πέντε Νικόλαος τετάρτῳ. καὶ Ἱππόλα πόλις ἀρχαία Λακωνική. Παυσανίας τρίτῳ (c. 25, 9). καὶ Θυέλα πόλις Οἰνωτρίας, ἐν ᾗ μοῖρα Φωκαέων ᾤκησεν, ὡς Ἡρόδοτος πρώτῳ (c. 167). Βοΐλλαι πόλις Λατίνων. καὶ Βουκεφάλα πόλις Ἰνδικῆς, ἣν ἔκτισεν Ἀλέξανδρος …