Μέταπα

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Μέταπα, πόλις Ἀκαρνανίας. Πολύβιος πέμπτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεταπαῖος ἢ Μεταπεύς διὰ τὰ ἐπιχώρια.

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Text Details

Entry#167
Greek textmeineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source idMeineke 448.12
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count13

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Πολύβιος (Polybius)(5,7,8)
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΜετάπαMetapa · place · corrected · Q60792271
ἈκαρνανίαAcarnania · place · corrected · Q416070
ΜεταπαῖοςMetapaean · people
ΜεταπάτηςMetapatēs · people
Μέταπαplace · explicit · wikidata: Q60792271 · seeded_headword_alignment
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Morphological CompositionThe ethnic name (demonym) Metapaîos or Metapátēs, because of the local/native (form).

Links

Place linksMetapa | 📍 Map | Pleiades
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Translation Guidance

KindRuleGuidanceDetection
FormulaX (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME)
formula:5e7f1861601f28d1
Translate as "X, book Y in his *Z*"
Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
FormulaX (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL)
formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb
Translate as "X, book Y"
Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
FormulaX (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
FormulaX (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
Formulaτὸ 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
Glossἐθνικόν τό
gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a
ethnonym
Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Glossἐπιχώριος -α -ον (κατὰ τὸν ἐπιχώριον)
gloss:a5a8d4938aac5b47
local (in the local form)
Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC
Rule status: In progress		Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.258
char LCS 35 (46.7%) · word LCS 5 (38.5%)
Stephanos
Μέταπα, πόλις Ἀκαρνανίας. Πολύβιος πέμπτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μεταπαῖος ἢ Μεταπεύς διὰ τὰ ἐπιχώρια.
Herodian
…Διονύσιος ιεʹ Ῥωμαϊκῆς ἀρχαιολογίας. Τυρακῖναι πόλις Σικελίας μικρὰ μὲν εὐδαίμων δ´ ὅμως. Τυράκην δὲ αὐτὴν Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν Εὐρώπῃ καλεῖ. * Τὰ εἰς 'πα' σπάνια ὄντα βαρύνεται, Βόρσιππα πόλις Χαλδαίων. λέγεται καὶ οὐδετέρως. Μέταπα πόλις Ἀκαρνανίας. Πολύβιος πέμπτῳ. Ζαρίασπα καὶ Ζαριάσπη πόλις Βακτριανή. Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. Χάραξ δὲ οὐδετέρως τὰ Ζαρίασπα. Τὰ εἰς 'ρα' μακρὸν μακρᾷ παραληγόμενα παροξύνεται ἀπὸ συμφώνου ἀρχόμενα, πήρα καὶ Πήρα πόλις Πισιδίας. χώρα. Ξήρα πόλις περὶ τὰς …

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