Μέταπα - Stephanos Ethnika

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

Metapa: a city of Akarnania. Polybios in the fifth. The ethnonym Metapaios or Metapeus because of the local.

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	#167
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 448.12
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-28
Word count	13

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Πολύβιος (Polybius)	(5,7,8)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Μετάπα	Metapa · place · corrected · Q60792271
Ἀκαρνανία	Acarnania · place · corrected · Q416070
Μεταπαῖος	Metapaean · people
Μεταπάτης	Metapatēs · people
Μέταπα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q60792271 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnic name (demonym) Metapaîos or Metapátēs, because of the local/native (form).

Links

Place links	Metapa \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i1441.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (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
Formula	X (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
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	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	ἐπιχώριος -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

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 …