Κάλυτις - Stephanos Ethnika

Κάλυτις OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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

Kalytis: a city in Syria. Herodotos, book 2. The inhabitant is 'Kalytites', and the feminine 'Kalytis', because the form has been taken in advance.

Text Details

Entry	#41
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 350.18 · Billerbeck Κ41
OCR	gemini-3-flash (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-17
Word count	17

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἡρόδοτος (Herodotus)	β (2,159,2)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κάλυτις	Kalytis (Kalythis) · place · corrected · Q1395229
Συρία	Syria · place · corrected · Q13415123
Καλυτίτης	Calytites (male inhabitant of Kalytis) · people
Καλυτίς	Calytis (female inhabitant of Kalytis) · people · corrected · Q1395229
Κάλυτις	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1395229 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The inhabitant (masculine) is Καλυτίτης, and the feminine form is Καλυτίς, because the character/ending had been taken beforehand.

Links

Place links	Gaza \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0131.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:5e7f1861601f28d1	*Translate as "X, book Y in his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	οἰκήτωρ ὁ gloss:3810d98aa6c81247	inhabitant, resident, patron (of a brothel...? - κ123) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

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