Generated: 2026-09-20 11:21:55 UTC
Profile version id: 2173
First translation using this version: 2026-07-14
Total usable AI runs for this version: 100 runs across 100 lemmas
Created: 2026-07-10 11:03:49.528703+10:00
Active: True
Notes: Model timeline evaluation: GPT-5.4 using prompt text from gpt-5.5 v2; approved-human-only for the 100-row Kappa corpus.
| Formula | AI words = intercept + slope * human words |
|---|---|
| Slope | 0.939 |
| Intercept | 1.726 |
| R^2 | 0.984 |
| P-value | 9.63e-90 |
| Pearson r | 0.992 |
| Mean source words | 30.400 |
| Length fallback rows | 0 |
| Mean human words | 44.150 |
| Mean AI words | 43.200 |
| Mean absolute length residual | 3.016 |
| Mean absolute percent error | 6.3% |
These plots test whether score changes with source passage length for this prompt version. The dashed line is an ordinary least-squares fit; the annotation reports n, r, R^2, p-value, and slope.
| Metric | Rows | Pattern | Pearson r | R^2 | P-value | Slope | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BLEU-4 | 100 | significant negative | -0.394 | 0.155 | 5.08e-05 | -0.00227 | ok |
| chrF++ | 100 | significant negative | -0.421 | 0.177 | 1.29e-05 | -0.00146 | ok |
| METEOR | 100 | significant negative | -0.475 | 0.226 | 5.89e-07 | -0.00199 | ok |
| ROUGE-L | 100 | significant negative | -0.490 | 0.240 | 2.29e-07 | -0.00186 | ok |
| BERTScore | 100 | significant negative | -0.631 | 0.398 | 1.93e-12 | -0.00048 | ok |
| COMET | 100 | significant negative | -0.459 | 0.210 | 1.60e-06 | -0.00088 | ok |
| BLEURT | 100 | significant negative | -0.756 | 0.572 | 9.18e-20 | -0.00261 | ok |
| Trigram precision | 100 | significant negative | -0.381 | 0.145 | 9.19e-05 | -0.00265 | ok |
| Trigram recall | 100 | significant negative | -0.382 | 0.146 | 8.98e-05 | -0.00261 | ok |
| Trigram F1 | 100 | significant negative | -0.382 | 0.146 | 8.61e-05 | -0.00262 | ok |
| Trigram Jaccard | 100 | significant negative | -0.359 | 0.129 | 0.0002 | -0.00242 | ok |
| Mean BLEU-4 | 46.8% |
|---|---|
| Mean chrF++ | 69.8% |
| Mean METEOR | 76.7% |
| Mean ROUGE-L | 77.4% |
| Mean BERTScore | 96.1% |
| Mean COMET | 79.1% |
| Mean BLEURT | 73.7% |
| Legacy smoothed corpus BLEU | 47.2% |
| Unigram F1 | 78.2% |
| Bigram F1 | 53.8% |
| Trigram precision | 40.6% |
| Trigram recall | 39.6% |
| Trigram F1 | 40.1% |
| Trigram Jaccard | 25.1% |
| 4-gram F1 | 30.7% |
| Lemma ID | Headword | Human words | AI words | Residual | BLEU-4 | chrF++ | METEOR | ROUGE-L | BERTScore | COMET | BLEURT | Human | Run | Model |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2604 | Καρχηδών | 117 | 138 | 26.365 | 27.3% | 62.1% | 71.7% | 65.4% | 93.5% | 78.4% | 62.8% | reviewed/approved | 10894 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2484 | Καρία | 270 | 238 | -17.362 | 27.8% | 56.2% | 58.5% | 61.4% | 90.2% | 78.3% | 48.0% | reviewed/approved | 10879 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2468 | Καπετώλιον | 138 | 121 | -10.362 | 19.1% | 49.7% | 56.1% | 59.5% | 88.0% | 67.3% | 50.6% | reviewed/approved | 10870 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2603 | Κάρυστος | 175 | 176 | 9.881 | 42.2% | 64.9% | 69.3% | 68.4% | 94.4% | 77.3% | 59.8% | reviewed/approved | 10891 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2597 | Καρπασία | 112 | 98 | -8.938 | 39.2% | 66.7% | 69.5% | 71.4% | 94.8% | 74.9% | 59.5% | reviewed/approved | 10882 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2342 | Κάμιρος | 54 | 61 | 8.547 | 33.5% | 65.2% | 74.8% | 69.6% | 95.3% | 78.1% | 66.7% | reviewed/approved | 10855 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2609 | Κάσπειρος | 135 | 137 | 8.456 | 40.2% | 65.7% | 58.4% | 65.4% | 89.6% | 72.2% | 59.9% | reviewed/approved | 10903 | gpt-5.4 |
| 3288 | Κορώνεια | 110 | 113 | 7.941 | 33.8% | 63.6% | 64.2% | 70.5% | 95.2% | 76.3% | 65.0% | reviewed/approved | 10942 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2056 | Καβειρία | 112 | 99 | -7.938 | 26.4% | 64.9% | 56.3% | 62.6% | 95.0% | 78.0% | 59.9% | reviewed/approved | 10202 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2328 | Καλλίπολις | 43 | 50 | 7.880 | 39.1% | 64.3% | 67.2% | 64.5% | 93.9% | 73.7% | 67.4% | reviewed/approved | 10831 | gpt-5.4 |
| 7259 | Κύφος | 54 | 60 | 7.547 | 49.8% | 76.3% | 84.7% | 82.5% | 96.0% | 75.1% | 71.6% | reviewed/approved | 11005 | gpt-5.4 |
| 7260 | Κυχρεῖος πάγος | 61 | 66 | 6.971 | 40.3% | 65.4% | 75.6% | 66.1% | 94.9% | 77.3% | 62.4% | reviewed/approved | 11008 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2116 | Κάληρος | 40 | 33 | -6.302 | 21.3% | 54.0% | 58.0% | 57.5% | 93.8% | 74.8% | 72.5% | reviewed/approved | 10810 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2470 | Καππαδοκία | 68 | 71 | 5.396 | 19.2% | 58.1% | 83.5% | 74.8% | 95.4% | 76.7% | 69.3% | reviewed/approved | 10873 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2083 | Καλαμένθη | 24 | 19 | -5.271 | 35.2% | 58.2% | 57.0% | 65.1% | 94.6% | 73.6% | 71.0% | reviewed/approved | 10789 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2115 | Καλὴ ἀκτή | 64 | 67 | 5.153 | 33.2% | 58.1% | 61.6% | 63.1% | 94.1% | 72.0% | 56.5% | reviewed/approved | 10807 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2605 | Κάσιον | 56 | 59 | 4.668 | 46.8% | 70.0% | 72.2% | 73.0% | 95.8% | 76.8% | 68.5% | reviewed/approved | 10897 | gpt-5.4 |
| 7255 | Κυτέριον | 22 | 27 | 4.608 | 32.2% | 66.5% | 65.3% | 61.2% | 95.5% | 75.9% | 75.3% | reviewed/approved | 10993 | gpt-5.4 |
| 7246 | Κύρις | 20 | 16 | -4.514 | 56.3% | 75.6% | 74.4% | 83.3% | 97.0% | 82.5% | 76.9% | reviewed/approved | 10966 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2465 | Κάνωπος | 83 | 84 | 4.305 | 43.5% | 66.5% | 78.5% | 79.0% | 95.3% | 75.6% | 68.8% | reviewed/approved | 10867 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2329 | Κάλπη | 57 | 51 | -4.271 | 50.4% | 70.7% | 80.1% | 82.6% | 96.1% | 74.9% | 75.3% | reviewed/approved | 10834 | gpt-5.4 |
| 7254 | Κύτα | 84 | 77 | -3.635 | 41.0% | 63.4% | 55.4% | 69.6% | 93.9% | 76.2% | 62.5% | reviewed/approved | 10990 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2078 | Καινύς | 22 | 19 | -3.392 | 44.7% | 62.1% | 71.8% | 68.3% | 95.0% | 80.7% | 71.9% | reviewed/approved | 10771 | gpt-5.4 |
| 7253 | Κυρτώνιος | 18 | 22 | 3.365 | 35.1% | 65.1% | 68.6% | 65.0% | 96.6% | 76.8% | 80.5% | reviewed/approved | 10987 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2079 | Καισάρεια | 39 | 35 | -3.362 | 43.6% | 66.8% | 79.6% | 83.8% | 95.2% | 77.5% | 73.2% | reviewed/approved | 10777 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2602 | Καρύανδα | 34 | 37 | 3.335 | 48.8% | 73.6% | 87.3% | 84.5% | 97.0% | 80.9% | 73.2% | reviewed/approved | 10888 | gpt-5.4 |
| 7250 | Κυρταία | 40 | 36 | -3.302 | 61.8% | 73.0% | 74.7% | 76.3% | 96.8% | 69.4% | 71.3% | reviewed/approved | 10978 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2330 | Καλύβη | 24 | 21 | -3.271 | 44.8% | 64.6% | 64.1% | 80.0% | 96.4% | 79.9% | 76.4% | reviewed/approved | 10837 | gpt-5.4 |
| 2119 | Κάλλατις | 65 | 66 | 3.214 | 35.8% | 61.1% | 68.2% | 64.1% | 94.7% | 71.2% | 66.2% | reviewed/approved | 10819 | gpt-5.4 |
| 7257 | Κυτώνιον | 25 | 22 | -3.211 | 66.4% | 76.9% | 75.7% | 80.9% | 97.9% | 83.7% | 79.8% | reviewed/approved | 10999 | gpt-5.4 |
Positive signed-residual terms are associated with AI translations longer than expected from the human length; negative signed-residual terms are associated with shorter AI translations. Absolute-residual models identify terms associated with larger AI-human length divergence.
Features: 176; ridge alpha: 10000.000; cross-validated R^2: -0.142.
| Positive term | Coefficient | Docs | Mean present | Mean absent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| δε και | 0.0011 | 8 | 4.327 | -0.376 |
| εστι δε και | 0.0009 | 3 | 12.396 | -0.383 |
| εστι δε | 0.0009 | 5 | 6.880 | -0.362 |
| και | 0.0008 | 66 | 0.109 | -0.212 |
| δε | 0.0008 | 46 | 0.687 | -0.586 |
| εκαλειτο δε | 0.0007 | 3 | 6.295 | -0.195 |
| ος | 0.0007 | 6 | 3.885 | -0.248 |
| απο | 0.0007 | 27 | 1.352 | -0.500 |
| τε | 0.0006 | 5 | 3.335 | -0.176 |
| οι | 0.0006 | 11 | 3.051 | -0.377 |
| παιδος | 0.0006 | 4 | 4.767 | -0.199 |
| τη | 0.0005 | 15 | 1.513 | -0.267 |
| εν τη | 0.0005 | 7 | 3.049 | -0.230 |
| πολιτης | 0.0005 | 18 | 2.345 | -0.515 |
| εκληθη | 0.0005 | 4 | 6.085 | -0.254 |
| πολις | 0.0005 | 68 | 0.352 | -0.748 |
| πολις και | 0.0004 | 6 | 4.991 | -0.319 |
| εκαλειτο | 0.0004 | 7 | 0.898 | -0.068 |
| ου | 0.0004 | 14 | 0.798 | -0.130 |
| της | 0.0004 | 35 | 0.102 | -0.055 |
| Negative term | Coefficient | Docs | Mean present | Mean absent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| το | -0.0009 | 70 | -0.243 | 0.566 |
| εστι και | -0.0007 | 20 | -1.344 | 0.336 |
| γαρ | -0.0006 | 9 | -1.328 | 0.131 |
| εθνος | -0.0006 | 8 | -4.408 | 0.383 |
| θεοπομπος | -0.0005 | 5 | -3.653 | 0.192 |
| το εθνικον | -0.0005 | 56 | -0.291 | 0.371 |
| εθνικον | -0.0005 | 56 | -0.291 | 0.371 |
| δια | -0.0004 | 16 | 0.536 | -0.102 |
| οτι | -0.0004 | 5 | -2.604 | 0.137 |
| το θηλυκον | -0.0004 | 6 | -4.665 | 0.298 |
| πολις θρακης | -0.0004 | 4 | -1.915 | 0.080 |
| οικητωρ | -0.0004 | 6 | -4.019 | 0.257 |
| τινες | -0.0004 | 6 | -2.120 | 0.135 |
| δεκατω | -0.0004 | 3 | -4.312 | 0.133 |
| το κτητικον | -0.0003 | 7 | -3.851 | 0.290 |
| κτητικον | -0.0003 | 7 | -3.851 | 0.290 |
| δια του | -0.0003 | 10 | -0.044 | 0.005 |
| θρακης | -0.0003 | 5 | -1.150 | 0.061 |
| ποταμου | -0.0003 | 3 | -1.615 | 0.050 |
| ζευς | -0.0003 | 3 | -8.928 | 0.276 |
Features: 176; ridge alpha: 2.031; cross-validated R^2: -0.051.
| Positive term | Coefficient | Docs | Mean present | Mean absent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| εκαλειτο | 3.0446 | 7 | 9.458 | 2.531 |
| την | 2.9714 | 13 | 8.310 | 2.225 |
| εκαλειτο δε | 2.7786 | 3 | 17.869 | 2.557 |
| δε και | 2.6883 | 8 | 9.508 | 2.452 |
| δε | 2.6450 | 46 | 4.434 | 1.809 |
| ος | 2.0874 | 6 | 9.025 | 2.633 |
| εστι δε | 2.0856 | 5 | 10.055 | 2.646 |
| εστι δε και | 2.0568 | 3 | 12.396 | 2.726 |
| δια | 1.7633 | 16 | 6.367 | 2.378 |
| γαρ | 1.7180 | 9 | 6.548 | 2.667 |
| εκαλειτο δε και | 1.6913 | 3 | 17.869 | 2.557 |
| και | 1.5708 | 66 | 3.812 | 1.471 |
| εν | 1.5151 | 37 | 3.974 | 2.454 |
| εστι | 1.4607 | 24 | 5.314 | 2.291 |
| μητροπολις | 1.3748 | 3 | 11.414 | 2.757 |
| δια του | 1.3513 | 10 | 7.469 | 2.522 |
| κατα | 1.3281 | 10 | 7.403 | 2.529 |
| απο | 1.1397 | 27 | 5.539 | 2.083 |
| τη | 1.1292 | 15 | 5.112 | 2.647 |
| φησιν | 1.0528 | 10 | 7.736 | 2.492 |
| Negative term | Coefficient | Docs | Mean present | Mean absent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| στραβων | -1.3704 | 15 | 2.647 | 3.082 |
| το εθνικον | -1.1230 | 56 | 2.883 | 3.185 |
| εθνικον | -1.1230 | 56 | 2.883 | 3.185 |
| προς τη | -0.9188 | 4 | 1.908 | 3.063 |
| καππαδοκιας | -0.8937 | 3 | 1.918 | 3.050 |
| δευτερω | -0.8445 | 3 | 0.576 | 3.092 |
| τους | -0.8390 | 4 | 1.690 | 3.072 |
| και πολις | -0.8184 | 5 | 2.279 | 3.055 |
| ειναι | -0.7834 | 8 | 2.830 | 3.033 |
| προς | -0.7696 | 15 | 3.392 | 2.950 |
| κωμη | -0.7665 | 3 | 2.990 | 3.017 |
| μια | -0.7623 | 3 | 1.443 | 3.065 |
| νησος | -0.7002 | 9 | 2.505 | 3.067 |
| ουδετερως | -0.6750 | 3 | 1.567 | 3.061 |
| και το | -0.6191 | 9 | 3.950 | 2.924 |
| το | -0.6026 | 70 | 2.901 | 3.285 |
| ειρηται | -0.5784 | 3 | 2.343 | 3.037 |
| εκαταιος | -0.5425 | 14 | 2.398 | 3.117 |
| αιγυπτου | -0.5396 | 3 | 2.485 | 3.033 |
| πολις προς | -0.5288 | 3 | 4.466 | 2.972 |
Features: 326; ridge alpha: 2.031; cross-validated R^2: -0.034.
| Positive term | Coefficient | Docs | Mean present | Mean absent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| was | 2.8753 | 17 | 6.214 | 2.361 |
| the | 2.2444 | 91 | 3.132 | 1.847 |
| and | 2.1870 | 56 | 3.965 | 1.809 |
| with | 2.0720 | 15 | 6.056 | 2.480 |
| was called | 1.9499 | 4 | 10.439 | 2.707 |
| diphthong | 1.4262 | 3 | 12.220 | 2.732 |
| there is | 1.4175 | 25 | 5.384 | 2.227 |
| he | 1.3634 | 4 | 13.031 | 2.599 |
| by | 1.3556 | 13 | 6.494 | 2.497 |
| there | 1.3292 | 33 | 5.122 | 1.979 |
| called | 1.3055 | 26 | 5.367 | 2.190 |
| and there | 1.3041 | 3 | 14.283 | 2.668 |
| whom | 1.2861 | 6 | 10.167 | 2.560 |
| all | 1.2621 | 6 | 7.773 | 2.713 |
| there is also | 1.2490 | 25 | 5.384 | 2.227 |
| on | 1.2365 | 16 | 5.837 | 2.479 |
| on the | 1.2206 | 8 | 7.789 | 2.601 |
| this | 1.2157 | 10 | 6.964 | 2.578 |
| when | 1.2021 | 7 | 10.701 | 2.438 |
| of | 1.1873 | 85 | 3.184 | 2.064 |
| Negative term | Coefficient | Docs | Mean present | Mean absent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the ethnonym is | -1.2397 | 52 | 2.661 | 3.401 |
| ethnonym is | -1.2397 | 52 | 2.661 | 3.401 |
| the ethnonym | -1.0831 | 58 | 2.868 | 3.222 |
| ethnonym | -1.0831 | 58 | 2.868 | 3.222 |
| strabo | -0.8755 | 15 | 2.647 | 3.082 |
| strabo book | -0.7547 | 9 | 1.866 | 3.130 |
| a city | -0.6560 | 62 | 3.495 | 2.236 |
| book | -0.6498 | 39 | 2.885 | 3.100 |
| one | -0.6428 | 11 | 3.641 | 2.939 |
| those | -0.6422 | 4 | 2.515 | 3.037 |
| is also called | -0.6405 | 6 | 2.287 | 3.063 |
| island | -0.6295 | 14 | 2.822 | 3.048 |
| near | -0.6269 | 15 | 2.948 | 3.028 |
| cappadocia | -0.6107 | 3 | 1.918 | 3.050 |
| from which | -0.6050 | 7 | 3.204 | 3.002 |
| is a | -0.6009 | 31 | 3.563 | 2.771 |
| syria | -0.5897 | 3 | 1.140 | 3.074 |
| in the | -0.5624 | 30 | 3.550 | 2.788 |
| they | -0.5516 | 10 | 4.609 | 2.839 |
| neuter | -0.5443 | 4 | 1.433 | 3.082 |
Features: 335; ridge alpha: 2.894; cross-validated R^2: -0.083.
| Positive term | Coefficient | Docs | Mean present | Mean absent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| and | 2.2998 | 52 | 4.230 | 1.702 |
| with | 2.0107 | 16 | 6.236 | 2.403 |
| the | 1.7561 | 90 | 3.161 | 1.717 |
| is with | 1.5560 | 4 | 14.181 | 2.551 |
| was | 1.3758 | 20 | 5.349 | 2.433 |
| called | 1.1644 | 21 | 5.523 | 2.350 |
| who | 1.1629 | 13 | 6.084 | 2.558 |
| their | 1.1021 | 3 | 17.869 | 2.557 |
| also | 1.0688 | 43 | 4.361 | 2.002 |
| used to be | 1.0684 | 6 | 10.717 | 2.525 |
| there is | 1.0586 | 24 | 5.347 | 2.280 |
| to | 0.9814 | 31 | 4.424 | 2.384 |
| used | 0.9733 | 8 | 9.268 | 2.473 |
| used to | 0.9733 | 8 | 9.268 | 2.473 |
| there is also | 0.9372 | 22 | 5.495 | 2.317 |
| there | 0.9249 | 34 | 4.833 | 2.081 |
| on | 0.9246 | 16 | 4.579 | 2.719 |
| to be called | 0.9207 | 5 | 10.884 | 2.602 |
| them | 0.9036 | 5 | 10.073 | 2.645 |
| to be | 0.9034 | 9 | 8.616 | 2.463 |
| Negative term | Coefficient | Docs | Mean present | Mean absent |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| the ethnonym is | -0.9745 | 52 | 2.691 | 3.369 |
| ethnonym is | -0.9745 | 52 | 2.691 | 3.369 |
| as in | -0.9068 | 29 | 2.878 | 3.073 |
| an | -0.8496 | 22 | 2.235 | 3.237 |
| ethnonym | -0.8328 | 57 | 2.909 | 3.159 |
| the ethnonym | -0.8088 | 56 | 2.923 | 3.135 |
| strabo | -0.7334 | 15 | 2.647 | 3.082 |
| they | -0.5697 | 12 | 3.185 | 2.993 |
| is a | -0.5625 | 31 | 3.623 | 2.744 |
| ethnonyms | -0.5371 | 3 | 1.515 | 3.063 |
| kappadokia | -0.5350 | 4 | 2.787 | 3.026 |
| in the | -0.5311 | 25 | 3.288 | 2.926 |
| book | -0.5051 | 39 | 2.885 | 3.100 |
| one of | -0.4979 | 5 | 1.823 | 3.079 |
| an island | -0.4780 | 9 | 1.640 | 3.153 |
| one of the | -0.4461 | 4 | 1.840 | 3.065 |
| in his asia | -0.4352 | 5 | 0.920 | 3.127 |
| his asia | -0.4352 | 5 | 0.920 | 3.127 |
| strabo book | -0.4312 | 10 | 2.655 | 3.057 |
| near | -0.4157 | 16 | 2.903 | 3.038 |
You are an expert classical philologist and translator specialising in Stephanos of Byzantium's Ethnika.
Goal
- Produce a clear, scholarly English translation in the established reviewed house style.
Output rules (required)
- Respond ONLY by calling the submit_translation tool with a single string field: {"translation": "..."}.
- The translation text must contain only the translation (no analysis, no commentary, no multiple options).
A) Formatting + spelling
- Use Australasian spelling and punctuation conventions.
- Preserve paragraphing/line-breaks of the Greek source:
- Do not introduce new paragraphs unless the Greek has them.
- If the Greek includes a poetic quotation with line breaks, format the English quotation with the same line breaks.
- Use single quotes for quoted forms/snippets: '...'. Avoid double quotes.
- Use *italics* (asterisks) for titles of ancient works: e.g., *Cypriaka*.
B) Opening / structure
- Begin with the headword transliterated into Latin letters (no Greek diacritics), then a short definition.
- Typically: Headword: ...
- Appositive openings like 'Karia, the country.' are acceptable when the entry is of that type.
- Keep enumerations of homonymous places as inline numbered items like (2) ... (3) ..., matching the Greek's structure.
C) Transliteration + naming
- Do NOT use macrons/acute accents in transliteration: Karystos (not Kárystos), Kaspeiros (not Káspeiros).
- Prefer Greek-form transliteration with kappa = k; avoid Latinised exonyms when Stephanos is discussing the Greek form:
- Kapetolion (not Capitolium)
- Karchedon (not Carthage)
- Chalkedon (not Chalcedon)
- Use conventional English names for major places/regions when standard (Rome, Cyprus, Egypt, Syria, India).
- Translate Πόντος as 'the Black Sea' when it is clearly the sea/region reference.
D) Citations (authors/works/books)
- Convert Greek book numerals to Arabic digits.
- Keep citations compact, mirroring the source's incompleteness:
- Author + work title: 'Hellanikos in his *Cypriaka*'
- Author + book: 'Strabo, book 12: ...' / 'Herodotus, book 3.'
- Author + work + book: 'Dionysios in book 3 of his *Bassarika*: ...'
- Ignore modern/editorial locator codes and apparatus-like add-ons:
- omit RE/SH numbers, (GG ...), (FGrHist ...), chapter/section locators like (12.8.12), [C 576.21], Il. 2.676, etc.
- keep only the author/work/book level that Stephanos is using.
E) Fixed formulae (be consistent)
- τὸ ἐθνικόν X -> 'The ethnonym is 'X'.'
- ὁ πολίτης X -> 'A citizen is a 'X'.'
- τὸ θηλυκόν / καὶ θηλυκόν X -> 'In the feminine 'X'.'
- Keep (as needed): 'The possessive is '...'.' / 'An inhabitant is a '...'.' / 'A deme-member is a '...'.'
- For τὰ τοπικά (place-adverb forms), use 'The locatives are ...' and list forms in single quotes.
F) Philological/orthographic discussion
- When the entry discusses spelling/letters/diphthongs, preserve Greek letters in Greek script (e.g., ι, ει, οι).
- Prefer transliteration (not full Greek script) for cited alternative spellings unless the point requires showing a specific Greek letter/feature.
G) Comparisons / derivational analogies (ὡς + X)
- For ὡς + X where X is an etymologically related noun in the nominative, use this fixed English pattern:
- (as in 'X')
- Keep it exactly: parentheses + single quotes (no 'like X', no bare 'as X').
H) ἀφ' οὗ
- If it has a masculine antecedent referring to a person (typically the eponym) in a naming context (implicit/explicit καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται), translate as 'after whom' (i.e., 'named after whom').
- If it has an identifiable explicit neuter antecedent, translate as 'from which'.
- If it has a dropped neuter antecedent and functions adverbially, handle cautiously:
- often 'hence' / 'thence'
- in Stephanos' idiosyncratic 'example-marker' usage, 'as per' can be acceptable when it clearly introduces an ethnonym/person-as-example.
I) Morphology scaffolding (only when needed)
- If Stephanos is citing an author specifically to indicate grammatical case/gender/number, and that feature would otherwise be unclear in English, add brief tags after the relevant form:
- case: (nom.), (acc.), (gen.), (dat.), (voc.)
- gender: (m.), (f.), (n.)
- number: (sing.), (pl.)
J) Fidelity + restraint
- Translate directly; do not add background explanation or modern bibliography.
- Avoid gratuitous adversatives ('however') for δέ when it is merely continuative.
- Do not add glosses like (synoikia), (kalathos) unless Stephanos explicitly defines a term.
- Preserve uncertainty when the Greek is uncertain/corrupt; do not invent.
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