Μεσσήνη - Stephanos Ethnika

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Μεσσήνη, καὶ χώρα καὶ πόλις. Στράβων ὀγδόῃ. χώρα δὲ ἡ Μεσσηνία καὶ Μέσση κατὰ ἀποκοπήν, ἢ Μέση καὶ Μεσήνη, ὥς τινες. τὸ ἐθνικὸν καὶ ὁ πολίτης Μεσσήνιος καὶ θηλυκὸν Μεσσηνίς. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη Μεσσήνη τῆς Σικελίας. καὶ χώρα Περσίδος Μεσηνή δι´ ἑνὸς « σ », ὑπὸ τῶν δύο ποταμῶν Εὐφράτου καὶ Τίγριδος μεσαζομένη, ὡς Ἀσίνιος Κουάδρατός φησι.

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Text Details

Entry	#162
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 447.14
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	55

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	8,4,1 [C 358,29]
Ἀσίνιος Κουάδρατος (Asinius Quadratus)	FGrHist 97 F 29b

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μεσσήνη	Messene · place · corrected · Q1247159
Μεσσηνία	Messenia · place
Μέσση	Messe (variant of Messene) · place · corrected · Q16606539
Μέση	Mese (variant of Messene) · place
Μεσσηνιός	Messenean (demonym) · people
Μεσσηνίς	Messenean (feminine demonym) · people
Σικελία	Sicily · place · corrected · Q4951156
Περσίς	Persis / Persia · place
Εὔφρατος	Euphrates · place · corrected · Q34589
Τίγρις	Tigris · place · corrected · Q35591
Messene / Messenia (Peloponnese)	place · city and region · Messenia, Peloponnese, Greece · explicit · unresolved
Messene in Sicily	place · city · Sicily · explicit · unresolved
Mesene in Persis	place · region · Persis / Mesopotamia between Euphrates and Tigris · explicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The land is called Μεσσηνία and Μέσση by syncope, or Μέση and Μεσήνη, as some (say).
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon and the citizen: Μεσσήνιος and (feminine) Μεσσηνίς.
Place Transfer	There is also another Messene of Sicily.
Place Transfer	And a region of Persia called Mesēnē with one sigma, situated between the two rivers Euphrates and Tigris, as Asinius Quadratus says.

Links

Place links	Messene \| 📍 Map
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1433.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 · 2 occurrences
Formula	καί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN) formula:0af867b3dd6df580	Translate as "Y is also 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	Χ (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:c22408ee90fd1a1e	*Translate as "X, in book Y of his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · medium confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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	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 · 1 scan row · 3 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.331

char LCS 102 (38.9%) · word LCS 21 (38.2%)

Stephanos

Μεσσήνη, καὶ χώρα καὶ πόλις. Στράβων ὀγδόῃ. χώρα δὲ ἡ Μεσσηνία καὶ Μέσση κατὰ ἀποκοπήν, ἢ Μέση καὶ Μεσήνη, ὥς τινες. τὸ ἐθνικὸν καὶ ὁ πολίτης Μεσσήνιος καὶ θηλυκὸν Μεσσηνίς. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη Μεσσήνη τῆς Σικελίας. καὶ χώρα Περσίδος Μεσηνή δι´ ἑνὸς « σ », ὑπὸ τῶν δύο ποταμῶν Εὐφράτου καὶ Τίγριδος μεσαζομένη, ὡς Ἀσίνιος Κουάδρατός φησι.

Herodian

ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη Μεσσήνη τῆς Σικελίας καὶ χώρα Περσίδος Μεσήνη δι´ ἑνὸς 'σ' ὑπὸ τῶν δύο ποταμῶν Εὐφράτου καὶ Τίγριδος μεσαζομένη ἡ καὶ Μέση τῶν ποταμῶν. γαλήνη, εἰρήνη· ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ καὶ Καλαύρεια νησίδιον πρὸς τῇ Κρήτῃ Εἰρήνη. σαγήνη, λευκήνη, τιθήνη, Πειρήνη ἡ πόλις, Κισθήνη ἡ πόλις, συβήνη, ἀπήνη, Χαλδήνη ὄνομα κύριον, Καβήνη ἡ Κρήνη Λυκίας, Σαρ…

Herodian 1.330

char LCS 40 (15.3%) · word LCS 9 (16.4%)

Stephanos

Μεσσήνη, καὶ χώρα καὶ πόλις. Στράβων ὀγδόῃ. χώρα δὲ ἡ Μεσσηνία καὶ Μέσση κατὰ ἀποκοπήν, ἢ Μέση καὶ Μεσήνη, ὥς τινες. τὸ ἐθνικὸν καὶ ὁ πολίτης Μεσσήνιος καὶ θηλυκὸν Μεσσηνίς. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη Μεσσήνη τῆς Σικελίας. καὶ χώρα Περσίδος Μεσηνή δι´ ἑνὸς « σ », ὑπὸ τῶν δύο ποταμῶν …

Herodian

…ικλυσθῆναι τῆς Κωπαΐδος, ὅτε Κράτης αὐτὴν διετάφρευσεν. ἐκλήθη δὲ πόλις, ὥς τινες μέν φασιν, Ἀθῆναι, ἄλλοι δὲ Ὀρχομενός, ὡς οἱ Βοιωτοί. ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἐν τῷ Εὐξείνῳ πόντῳ χωρίον Ἀθῆναι, ὡς Ἀρριανός. ἀνθρήνη εἶδος μελίττης, Μεσσήνη καὶ χώρα καὶ πόλις. Στράβων ὀγδόῃ. χώρα δὲ Μεσσηνία καὶ Μέσση κατὰ ἀποκοπὴν ἢ Μέση Μεσήνη, ὥς τινες.