Καινίνη - Stephanos Ethnika

Καινίνη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Καινίνη, πόλις Σαβίνων, ἡ ὑπὸ Ῥωμύλου ἁλοῦσα. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καινινῆται.

Kainine: a city of the Sabines, which was captured by Romulus. The ethnonym is 'Kaininetai'.

Text Details

Entry	#12
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 346.17 · Billerbeck Κ12
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-2.5-flash) on 2025-12-17
Word count	10

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Καινίνη	Kaininē (city) · place
Σαβῖνοι	Sabines · people
Ῥωμύλος	Romulus · person
Καινινῆται	Kaininētai (inhabitants/demonym of Kaininē) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Place Transfer	Kainine: a city of the Sabines (i.e., attributed to the Sabine people).
Folk Etymology Narrative	Or (it was) captured by Romulus (a tradition attributing its origin/association to Romulus).

Links

Place links	Caenina \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0074.jpg
Review	Open review page

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.334

char LCS 36 (65.5%) · word LCS 7 (70.0%)

Stephanos

Καινίνη, πόλις Σαβίνων, ἡ ὑπὸ Ῥωμύλου ἁλοῦσα. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καινινῆται.

Herodian

ὁ ποταμὸς προσβάλλει ἰλύν. λέγονται καὶ Ἐχινάδες διὰ τὸ τραχὺ καὶ ὀξὺ παρὰ τὸν ἐχῖνον ἢ διὰ τὸ πλῆθος ἔχειν ἐχίνων. Ἀπολλόδωρος δὲ ἀπὸ Ἐχίνου μάντεως. Καινίνη πόλις Σαβίνων ἡ ὑπὸ Ῥωμύλου ἁλοῦσα. Λιγυστίνη πόλις Λιγύων τῆς δυτικῆς Ἰβηρίας ἐγγὺς καὶ τῆς Ταρτησσοῦ πλησίον. Πλινθίνη πόλις τῆς Αἰγυπτίας ἐπὶ τῆς Μαρείας. Μοτίνη πόλις Ἰταλίας, ἄποικος Ῥωμαίων. Πολύβιος τρίτῳ (c. 40, 8)· Φλέγων δὲ Μουτίνην αὐτήν φησι.…