Καοῦς - Stephanos Ethnika

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village

Entry #64
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 355.13 | Billerbeck: Κ64
OCR: gemini-3-flash (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-18
Word count: 19
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Παυσανίας (Pausanias) (8,25,1)
Entities: Καοῦς (Kaous) [place], Ἀρκαδία (Arcadia) [place], Τελφουσία (Telfousia) [place], Καούσιος (Kaousios (the Kaousian)) [people], Ἀσκληπιός (Asclepius) [deity]
Etymologies: Morphological Composition: 'The citizen (demonym) is Kaousios; for there Asclepius is honored in this way, Kaousios.' (i.e. the epithet/demonym Καούσιος is formed from the place-name Καοῦς)
Place: Kaous
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Καοῦς, κώμη τῆς ἐν Ἀρκαδίᾳ Τελφουσίας γῆς. ὁ πολίτης Καούσιος· ἐκεῖ γὰρ οὕτως Ἀσκληπιὸς τιμᾶται Καούσιος, ὡς Παυσανίας ὀγδόῳ.

Kaoûs: a village of the territory of Telphousia in Arcadia. The citizen is called Kaoúsios; for there Asclepius too is honoured under the title Kaoúsios, as Pausanias relates in book 8.

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Herodian 1.243

char LCS 34 (33.3%) · word LCS 7 (36.8%)

Stephanos

Καοῦς, κώμη τῆς ἐν Ἀρκαδίᾳ Τελφουσίας γῆς. ὁ πολίτης Καούσιος· ἐκεῖ γὰρ οὕτως Ἀσκληπιὸς τιμᾶται Καούσιος, ὡς Παυσανίας ὀγδόῳ.

Herodian

…Φλιοῦς, ἣν αὐτὸς δείματο λευκολόφος. ὠνόμασται δὲ παρὰ τὸ φλεῖν, ὅ ἐστιν εὐκαρπεῖν. Ὑδροῦς φρούριον... ἀρσενικῶς. Θεόπομπος τριακοστῷ ἐνάτῳ Φιλιππικῶν. Ὑψοῦς παῖς Λυκάονος καὶ πόλις Ἀρκαδίας, ὡς Παυσανίας ὀγδόῳ ( 3, 3). Καοῦς κώμη τῆς ἐν Ἀρκαδίᾳ Τελφουσίας γῆς, Βαιταρροῦς κώμη μεγάλη τῆς τρίτης Παλαιστίνης. Ἱεριχοῦς πόλις μεταξὺ Ἱεροσολύμων καὶ Ἰορδάνου ποταμοῦ. εὕρηται δὲ καὶ δοτικὴ Ἱεριχοῖ ἀπὸ τῆς Ἱεριχώ. Κατὰ τὸν εἰρημένον κανόνα, ὡς τὰ εἰς 'ους' ἁπλᾶ περισπᾶσθαι θέλει, κα…