Μέσσαβα - Stephanos Ethnika

Μέσσαβα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Μέσσαβα, πόλις Καρῶν. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεσσαβεύς, τῷ τύπῳ τῶν Καρικῶν πόλεων.

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Text Details

Entry	#158
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 447.5
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	13

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Ἀσίᾳ · FGrHist 1 F 252

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μέσσαβα	Messaba · place
Κάριοι	Carians · people
Μεσσαβεύς	Messabeus (demonym) · people
Μέσσαβα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q109632377 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon 'Messabeus', formed according to the pattern/type of Carian cities.

Links

Place links	Messaba (Pauly-Wissowa)
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1428.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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
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 1.379

char LCS 29 (42.0%) · word LCS 5 (38.5%)

Stephanos

Μέσσαβα, πόλις Καρῶν. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεσσαβεύς, τῷ τύπῳ τῶν Καρικῶν πόλεων.

Herodian

…ἄρκευθος ἄρκευθον. * Τὰ εἰς 'βον' οὐδέτερα πληθυντικὰ κύρια ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς προπαροξύνεται, Κάνδυβα πόλις Λυκίας ἀπὸ Κανδύβου παιδὸς Λευκαλίωνος. Μαρίαβα μητρόπολις Σαβαίων πρὸς τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ. Στράβων ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ. Μέσσαβα πόλις Καρῶν. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Μήδαβα πόλις τῶν Ναβαταίων. Τένδηβα πόλις Καρίας ἀρχαία. Ῥαβάθμωβα πόλις τρίτης Παλαιστίνης ἡ νῦν Ἀρεόπολις. Χαράκμωβα πόλις τῆς νῦν τρίτης Παλαιστίνης, ἣν ἀναγράφει Πτολεμαῖος γεωγραφικοῖς ἐν εʹ βιβλίῳ ἐν Ἀραβικαῖς τῆ…