Καλύβη - Stephanos Ethnika

Καλύβη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Καλύβη, πόλις Θρᾴκης, ἄποικος Μακεδόνων. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καλυβῖται ἢ Καλυβεῖς, ὡς τῆς Ἀλύβης Ἀλυβεῖς.

Kalybe: a city of Thrace, a colony of Macedonians. The ethnonym is 'Kalybitai' or 'Kalybeis'.

Text Details

Entry	#36
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 350.4 · Billerbeck Κ36
OCR	gemini-3-flash (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-17
Word count	14
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Καλύβη	Kalybe (place) · place
Θρᾴκη	Thrace · place
Μακεδόνες	Macedonians · people
Καλυβῖται	Kalybitai (inhabitants of Kalybe) · people
Καλυβεῖς	Kalybeis (alternative demonym) · people
Ἀλύβη	Alybe (place) · place
Ἀλυβεῖς	Alybeis / Alybeans (inhabitants of Alybe) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	A city of Thrace, a colony of (the) Macedonians.
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) is Kalybitai or Kalybeis, like the Alybeis of Alybe.

Links

Place links	Fort of Kalyva \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0111.jpg
Review	Open review page

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.308

char LCS 33 (42.3%) · word LCS 5 (35.7%)

Stephanos

Καλύβη, πόλις Θρᾴκης, ἄποικος Μακεδόνων. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καλυβῖται ἢ Καλυβεῖς, ὡς τῆς Ἀλύβης Ἀλυβεῖς.

Herodian

…πη. τοῦτο γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ πείρω. Τὰ εἰς 'βη' ὑπερδισύλλαβα μὴ παραληγόμενα τῇ 'οι' διφθόγγῳ βαρύνεται, Ἀλύβη »τηλόθεν ἐξ Ἀλύβης, ὅθεν ἀργύρου ἐστὶ γενέθλη« (Β 857). Ἑλλάνικος δέ φησιν λίμνην εἶναι Ποντικήν. καλύβη. ἔστι καὶ Καλύβη πόλις Θρᾴκης, ἄποικος Μακεδόνων, Νιόβη, ἀστράβη εἶδος ἁμάξης. οὕτως δὲ ἐκαλεῖτο Κάσος μία τῶν Κυκλάδων. Ἑκάβη. Ἀρίσβη πόλις τῆς Τρῳάδος Μυτιληναίων ἄποικος, ἧς οἰκισταὶ Σκαμάνδριος καὶ Ἀσκάνιος υἱὸς Αἰνείου. Κεφάλων δέ φησιν, ὅτι Δάρδανος ἀπὸ Σαμοθρᾴκ…