Μέταον - Stephanos Ethnika

Μέταον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Μέταον, πόλις Λέσβου, ἣν Μέτας Τυρρηνὸς ᾤκισεν, ὡς Ἑλλάνικος.

Metaon: a city of Lesbos, which Metas a Tyrrhenian settled, as Hellanikos.

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	#166
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 448.10
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	9

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑλλάνικος (Hellanicus)	FGrHist 4 F 92 = fr. 92 Fowler

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μέταον	Metaon · place · corrected · Q65121160
Λέσβος	Lesbos · place · corrected · Q128087
Μέτας	Metas · person
Τυρρηνός	Tyrrhenian (Tyrrhenian/Etruscan) · people
Μέταον	place · explicit · wikidata: Q65121160 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	‘which Metas the Tyrrhenian founded’ (i.e. the city is named from/after the founder Metas)

Links

Place links	Metaon \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1433.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS 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

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.376

char LCS 49 (100.0%) · word LCS 9 (100.0%)

Stephanos

Μέταον, πόλις Λέσβου, ἣν Μέτας Τυρρηνὸς ᾤκισεν, ὡς Ἑλλάνικος.

Herodian

συνήθεια, τὸ γὰρ ἐπιθετικὸν κηρύκειον τὸν τοῦ κηρύκειος τόνον ἐφύλαξε καὶ τὸ κύριον προπαροξύνεται. τὸ δὲ ὠκυτόκειον καὶ ἄλλα σύνθετα προπαροξύνεται. * Τὰ εἰς 'ον' καθαρὸν παραληγόμενα τῷ 'α' σπάνια ὄντα βαρύνεται, Μέταον πόλις Λέσβου, ἣν Μέτας Τυρρηνὸς ᾤκισεν, ὡς Ἑλλάνικος. * Τὰ εἰς 'ον' παραληγόμενα τῇ 'αυ' διφθόγγῳ σπάνια ὄντα βαρύνεται, Σαῦα κώμη τῆς εὐδαίμονος Ἀραβίας, Ἄναυα πόλις Φρυγίας, ὡς Ἡρόδοτος ( 7, 30). Τὰ εἰς 'ον' καθαρὸν παραληγόμενα τῷ 'υ' βαρύνεται, πτύον, βρύον, πύον τὸ ἔ…