Ζεφύριον

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Ζεφύριον, ἡ Ἁλικαρνασσὸς τῆς Καρίας οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο. καὶ πόλις Κιλικίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ζεφυριώτης. ἔστι καὶ Σκυθίας χωρίον. ἔστι καὶ Ἰταλίας Ζεφύριον, ἀφ´ οὗ Λοκροὶ Ἐπιζεφύριοι. ἔστι καὶ ἄκρα τῆς Αἰγύπτου, ἀφ´ ἧς ἡ Ἀφροδίτη καὶ Ἀρσινόη Ζεφυρῖτις, ὡς Καλλίμαχος. τὸ οὖν Ζεφυρίτης ἀπὸ τοῦ Ζεφυριώτης, συγκοπῇ τοῦ « ω », ὡς τὸ Θρονίτης. Ἀρκάδιος δὲ διὰ διφθόγγου γράφει.

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Text Details

Entry	#17
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 295.16 · Billerbeck Ζ17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-10
Word count	56

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Καλλίμαχος (Callimachus)	fr. 110,57 Pfeiffer
Ἀρκάδιος (Arcadios / Arcadius)	RE II 1153 Nr. 5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ζεφύριον	Zephyrium · place
Ἁλικαρνασσός	Halicarnassus · place
Καρία	Caria · place
Κιλικία	Cilicia · place
Ζεφυριώτης	Zephyriote (ethnic) · people
Σκυθία	Scythia · place
Ἰταλία	Italy · place
Λοκροί	Locrians · people
Ἐπιζεφύριοι	Epizephyrians · people
Αἴγυπτος	Egypt · place
Ἀφροδίτη	Aphrodite · deity
Ἀρσινόη	Arsinoe · deity
Θρονίτης	Thronites · people
Ζεφυρίτις	Zephyritis (epithet) · other
Ζεφυρίτης	Zephyrites (ethnic) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	Halicarnassus of Caria was thus called (Zephyrion).
Place Transfer	There is also a Zephyrion in Italy, from which the Locrians are called Epizephyrii.
Morphological Composition	There is also a promontory (cape) of Egypt, from which Aphrodite and Arsinoe are called Zephyritis.
Morphological Composition	Thus 'Zephyrites' is from 'Zephyriotes', by contraction (loss) of the omega, as (in) 'Thronites'.
Unclear Metalinguistic	But Arkadios writes it with a diphthong.

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