Κάλυτις

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Κάλυτις, πόλις Συρίας. Ἡρόδοτος δευτέρᾳ. ὁ οἰκήτωρ Καλυτίτης, καὶ τὸ θηλυκὸν Καλυτίς, διὰ τὸ προειλῆφθαι τὸν χαρακτῆρα.

Kalyitis: a city of Syria. Herodotus, book 2. The inhabitant is a 'Kalyitites', and in the feminine 'Kalyitis', because the form has already been pre-empted.

Text Details

Entry#41
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 350.18 · Billerbeck Κ41
OCRgemini-3-flash (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-17
Word count17
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Ἡρόδοτος (Herodotus)β (2,159,2)
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΚάλυτιςKalytis (Kalythis) · place
ΣυρίαSyria · place
ΚαλυτίτηςCalytites (male inhabitant of Kalytis) · people
ΚαλυτίςCalytis (female inhabitant of Kalytis) · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Morphological CompositionThe inhabitant (masculine) is Καλυτίτης, and the feminine form is Καλυτίς, because the character/ending had been taken beforehand.

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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.103
char LCS 33 (34.0%) · word LCS 5 (29.4%)
Stephanos
Κάλυτις, πόλις Συρίας. Ἡρόδοτος δευτέρᾳ. ὁ οἰκήτωρ Καλυτίτης, καὶ τὸ θηλυκὸν Καλυτίς, διὰ τὸ προειλῆφθαι τὸν χαρακτῆρα.
Herodian
…ιν. Τὰ εἰς 'τις' πρὸ τοῦ 'τις' 'υ' ἔχοντα, σπάνια ὄντα, τὰ μὲν βαρύνεται, Σύρτις, Ξύστις πόλις Καρίας. Βέρυτις Τρωϊκὴ πόλις. Ἄφυτις πόλις Θρᾴκης. Θουκυδίδης αʹ ( 64) «ἐξ Ἀφύτιος ὁρμώμενος». λέγεται καὶ Ἄφυτος καὶ Ἀφύτη. Κάλυτις πόλις Συρίας. Ἡρόδοτος δευτέρᾳ (c. 159)· Κάνυτις πόλις Συρίων μεγάλη, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. τὰ δὲ ὀξύνεται, ῥυτίς, κυρτίς. Καλυτίς τὸ ἐθνικόν. Ἀψυρτίς. Ἀψυρτίδες

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