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.

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Text Details

Entry	#23
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 296.18 · Billerbeck Ζ23
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2026-01-10
Word count	17

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Λυκόφρων (Lycophron)	(77)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Ζήρυνθος	Zerynthos · place
Ἑκάτη	Hecate · deity
Θρᾴκη	Thrace · place
Ζηρύνθιος	Zerynthios · person
Ζηρυνθιάς	Zerynthias · person

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
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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…