Κάναστρον - Stephanos Ethnika

Κάναστρον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

promontory

Κάναστρον, ἄκρον Θρᾴκης καὶ Μακεδονίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καναστραῖος. Σοφοκλῆς δὲ ὑπομνηματίζων τὰ ἀργοναυτικά “Καναστραῖον” φησίν “ἀκρωτήριον τῆς Παλλήνης”. ἀλλ´ ἐναντιοῦται τὰ ἐθνικά, εἰ μὴ καὶ τοῦτο ἐκλάβοιμεν παραπλησίως τῷ Λέχαιον καὶ Λεχαῖος, καὶ Λύκειον τὸ γυμνάσιον καὶ Λυκεῖος Ἀπόλλων, καὶ Νύμφαιον καὶ Νυμφαῖος.

Kanastron: a promontory of Thrace and Macedonia. The ethnonym is 'Kanastraios', but Sophokles has 'Kanastraion' in his commentary on The Argonautika, saying it is 'a cape of Pallene'. However, the ethnonyms run contrary to this, unless we were to understand this as having the same pattern as 'Lechaion' and 'Lechaios', 'Lykeion' and Apollo 'Lykeios', or 'Nymphaion' and 'Nymphaios'.

Text Details

Entry	#53
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 353.5 · Billerbeck Κ53
OCR	gemini-3-flash (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-18
Word count	55

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Σοφοκλῆς (Sophocles)	τὰ Ἀργοναυτικά · A. R. 1,599; cf. RE III A 1,1096

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κάναστρον	Canastron (Kanastros) · place · corrected · Q25006127
Κανάστραιον	Kanastraion (variant of Canastron) · place
Θράκη	Thrace · place
Μακεδονία	Macedonia · place · corrected · Q81734
Καναστραῖος	Canastrian (ethnic) · people
Παλλήνη	Pallene · place
Λέχαιον	Lechaeum (Lechaion) · place
Λεχαῖος	Lechaeus (ethnic) · people
Λύκειον	Lyceum (Lykeion) · place
Ἀπόλλων	Apollo · deity · corrected · Q37340
Νύμφαιον	Nymphaeum (Nymphaion) · place · corrected · Q287522
Νυμφαῖος	Nymphaeus (ethnic/epithet) · people
Κάναστρον	place · explicit · wikidata: Q25006127 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	But the ethnica (ethnic names) are objected, unless we take this similarly to Lechaion and Lechaios, and Lykeion (the gymnasium) and Lykeios (Apollo), and Nymphaion and Nymphaeos.

Links

Place links	Cape Paliouri \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0166.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS 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
Formula	καί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN) formula:0af867b3dd6df580	Translate as "Y is also 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 3 occurrences
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἄκρα ἡ gloss:4b3718d8a0a50cbb	promontory Domain: WATER BODIES/COASTS	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἄκρον τό gloss:e28240a1e2cb325b	cape (when on the coast, sgl.), headlands (when on the coast, plu.); peak (when inland) Domain: WATER BODIES/COASTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 3 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.