Μεσσόα - Stephanos Ethnika

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Μεσσόα, τόπος Λακωνικῆς. Στράβων ὀγδόῃ. ἔστι καὶ φυλὴ Λακωνική. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεσσοάτης.

Messoa: a place of Laconia. Strabo in the eighth. There is also a Laconian tribe. The ethnonym Messoates.

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	#163
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 448.3
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	12

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Στράβων (Strabo)	η̅ (8,5,3 [C 364,5])

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μεσσόα	Messoa · place
Λακωνική	Laconia (Laconian region) · place · corrected · Q11931074
Λακωνική	Laconia (Laconian) · place · corrected · Q11931074
Μεσσοάτης	Messoates (ethnic name) · people
Μεσσόα	place · place · explicit · wikidata: Q60791981 · seeded_headword_alignment

Links

Place links	Mesoa
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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	φυλή ἡ gloss:d443eaa1b875776d	tribe Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	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 1.301

char LCS 51 (73.9%) · word LCS 9 (75.0%)

Stephanos

Μεσσόα, τόπος Λακωνικῆς. Στράβων ὀγδόῃ. ἔστι καὶ φυλὴ Λακωνική. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεσσοάτης.

Herodian

…Ὀεῖς λέγεσθαι ἀπὸ τοῦ Ὀεὺς ὡς ἄλλα πολλά. χροία χρόα. ποία πόα. Γενόα πόλις τῶν Λιγύρων τῆς Ἰταλίας, καλουμένη νῦν Ἰάνουα, ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος. Θεισόα πόλις Ἀρκαδίας. Λυκόα πόλις Ἀρκαδίας. Παυσανίας ὀγδόῃ (c. 36, 7). Μεσόα ἢ Μεσσόα τόπος Λακωνικῆς. Στράβων ὀγδόῃ. ἔστι καὶ φυλὴ Λακωνική. Νόαι πόλις Σικελίας. Ἀπολλόδωρος δευτέρῳ χρονικῶν. τὰ δὲ ἐν ἐπενθέσει ὀξύνεται στοιά στοά, ῥοιά ῥοά.