Ζήρυνθος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Ζήρυνθος, πόλις καὶ ἄντρον Ἑκάτης ἐν Θρᾴκῃ. Λυκόφρων “Ζήρυνθον ἄντρον τῆς κυνοσφαγοῦς [θεᾶς]”. ὁ πολίτης Ζηρύνθιος καὶ Ζηρυνθιάς.

Zerynthos: a city and a cave of Hekate in Thrace. Lykophron: ‘the Zerynthian cave of the dog-slaying [goddess]’. The citizen is called ‘Zerynthios’, and the feminine ‘Zerynthias’.

AI translation — gpt-5.6-sol; Gabe v3

Text Details

Entry	#23
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 296.18
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-10
Word count	17
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.6-sol

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Λυκόφρων (Lycophron)	(77)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ζήρυνθος	Zerynthos · place · corrected · Q8069673
Ἑκάτη	Hecate · deity
Θρᾴκη	Thrace · place · corrected · Q41741
Ζηρύνθιος	Zerynthios · person
Ζηρυνθιάς	Zerynthias · person
Ζήρυνθος	place · explicit · wikidata: Q8069673 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	a city and cave of Hecate in Thrace (i.e., the place is associated with the goddess Hecate)
Folk Etymology Narrative	Lycofron: 'Zērynthos, cave of the dog-slayer' (an epithet linking the cave to a 'dog-slayer', likely the goddess or a folkloric figure)
Morphological Composition	the citizen (demonym) Zērynthios and Zērynthiás (morphological derivatives from the place name Ζήρυνθος)

Links

Place links	Zerynthus \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	vol2_235.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.147

char LCS 75 (72.1%) · word LCS 13 (72.2%)

Stephanos

Ζήρυνθος, πόλις καὶ ἄντρον Ἑκάτης ἐν Θρᾴκῃ. Λυκόφρων “Ζήρυνθον ἄντρον τῆς κυνοσφαγοῦς [θεᾶς]”. ὁ πολίτης Ζηρύνθιος καὶ Ζηρυνθιάς.

Herodian

… Ἡρακλέους. Ἀράκυνθος ὄρος Βοιωτίας, ἀφ´ οὗ ἡ Ἀθηνᾶ Ἀρακυνθιὰς ὡς Ῥιανὸς ἐν τῇ Φήμῃ «κλῦθί μοι εὐχάων Ἀρακυνθιὰς εὐπατέρεια». Ἄψυνθος πόλις Θρᾴκης. ἔστι καὶ εἶδος φυτοῦ. διχῶς δ´ ἡ γραφὴ καὶ διὰ τοῦ 'υ' καὶ διὰ τοῦ 'ι'. Ζήρυνθος πόλις καὶ ἄντρον Ἑκάτης ἐν Θρᾴκῃ. Λυκόφρων (v. 77) «Ζήρυνθον ἄντρον τῆς κυνοσφαγοῦς θεᾶς». Ζάκυνθος ὁ Δαρδάνου καὶ ἀπ´ αὐτοῦ πόλις. ἀρσενικῶς Ὅμηρος καὶ θηλυκῶς «καὶ ὑλήεσσα Ζάκυνθος» (Od. ι 24) καὶ «ὑλήεντα Ζάκυνθον» (Od. α 246). δευτέρα Ἰβηρίας. τρίτη Λιβύης. Τρικόρυνθος δῆμος τῆς Αἰαντίδος φυλῆς. Διονύσι…