Καοῦς - Stephanos Ethnika

Καοῦς OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

village

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

Kaous: a village of the land of Telphousia in Arkadia. A citizen is a 'Kaousios'; for there Asklepios is honoured in this way as 'Kaousios', as Pausanias, book 8.

Text Details

Entry	#64
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 355.13 · Billerbeck Κ64
OCR	gemini-3-flash (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-18
Word count	19
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Παυσανίας (Pausanias)	(8,25,1)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Καοῦς	Kaous · place
Ἀρκαδία	Arcadia · place
Τελφουσία	Telfousia · place
Καούσιος	Kaousios (the Kaousian) · people
Ἀσκληπιός	Asclepius · deity

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
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)

Links

Place links	Kaous
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0220.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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

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…