Καινίνη - Stephanos Ethnika

Καινίνη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Entry #12
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 346.17 | Billerbeck: Κ12
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-2.5-flash) on 2025-12-17
Word count: 10
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Καινίνη (Kaininē (city)) [place], Σαβῖνοι (Sabines) [people], Ῥωμύλος (Romulus) [person], Καινινῆται (Kaininētai (inhabitants/demonym of Kaininē)) [people]
Etymologies: 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).
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Καινίνη, πόλις Σαβίνων, ἡ ὑπὸ Ῥωμύλου ἁλοῦσα. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καινινῆται.

Kaininē: a city of the Sabines, or one captured by Romulus. The ethnic (gentilic) is Kaininētai.

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.…