Καππαδοκία - Stephanos Ethnika

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Καππαδοκία, χώρα τῇ Κιλικίᾳ πρόσχωρος, ὥς φησι Μένιππος “ἀπὸ Σινώπης εἰς Εὔαρχον ποταμόν, ὃς ὁρίζει Παφλαγονίαν καὶ Καππαδοκίαν ...” τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καππάδοξ καὶ Καππάδοκος. καὶ Καππαδόκης· Ἡρόδοτος δέ φησιν. ὁ κτιστὴς Καππάδοκος εἴρηται ὑπὸ Μενάνδρου. λέγεται καὶ Καππαδόκισσα, ὡς Αἰθιόπισσα καὶ πανδόκισσα. διῄρητο δ´ οὐχ ὡς νῦν εἰς πρώτην καὶ δευτέραν, ἀλλ´ εἰς μείζονα καὶ ἐλάττονα, καὶ μικρὰν καὶ μεγάλην.

Cappadocia: a region bordering Cilicia, as Menippus says: “from Sinope to the river Euarchos, which marks off Paphlagonia and Cappadocia …”. The ethnicon is Kappadox and Kappadokos; also Kappadokēs, as Herodotus says. The founder (eponym) Kappadokos is mentioned by Menander. It is also called Kappadokissa, like Aithiopissa and pandokissa. And it was formerly divided not, as now, into First and Second (Cappadocia), but into Greater and Lesser, and into Small and Great.

Text Details

Entry	#68
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 356.12 · Billerbeck Κ68
OCR	gemini-3-flash (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-18
Word count	62
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v1 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Μένιππος (Menippos (Menippus))	6002 Diller = GGM 1,571,20
Ἡρόδοτος (Herodotus)	(1,72,1)
Μενάνδρος (Menander)	FGrHist 783 F 9

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Καππαδοκία	Cappadocia · place · corrected · Q217265
Κιλικία	Cilicia · place · corrected · Q620864
Σινώπη	Sinope · place · corrected · Q107557833
Εὔαρχος	Euarchos (river) · place · corrected · Q35530410
Παφλαγονία	Paphlagonia · place · corrected · Q622032
Καππάδοξ	Cappadox (demonym) · people
Καππάδοκος	Cappadocus / Cappadocikos (demonym) · people
Καππαδόκης	Cappadokes (variant demonym) · people
Καππαδοκίς	Cappadokis (feminine form) · people
Καππαδοκίσσα	Cappadokissa (feminine form) · people
Αἰθιόπισσα	Aethiopissa (Ethiopian woman, feminine ethnonym) · people
Καππαδοκία	place · region · Asia Minor; bordering Cilicia and Paphlagonia · explicit · wikidata: Q130262215 · candidate

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	The founder Cappadocus is mentioned by Menander.
Morphological Composition	The ethnic name is Cappadox and Cappadocos, and Cappadokes; the feminine Cappadokis is also said as Cappadokissa, like Aithiopissa and pandokissa.

Links

Place links	Cappadocia \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0245.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (NOM. PROPER NOUN) + X (GEN. PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	"X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (NOM.) + ὡς + Y (NOM. HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	"'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	εἰς + «X» (GREEK LETTER) formula:f06db8d92900ddc7	"ending in X" Domain: SPELLING & PROSODY Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (NOM. ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	"The ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	"as per X," Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	διαίρεσις ἡ gloss:32385cdfa347bd24	diaresis (i.e. the punctuation mark) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.301

char LCS 106 (32.4%) · word LCS 18 (30.5%)

Stephanos

Καππαδοκία, χώρα τῇ Κιλικίᾳ πρόσχωρος, ὥς φησι Μένιππος “ἀπὸ Σινώπης εἰς Εὔαρχον ποταμόν, ὃς ὁρίζει Παφλαγονίαν καὶ Καππαδοκίαν ...” τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καππάδοξ καὶ Καππάδοκος. καὶ Καππαδόκης· Ἡρόδοτος δέ φησιν. ὁ κτιστὴς Καππάδοκος εἴρηται ὑπὸ Μενάνδρου. λέγεται καὶ Καππαδόκισσα, ὡς Αἰθιόπισσα καὶ πανδόκισσα. διῄρητο δ´ οὐχ ὡς νῦν εἰς πρώτην καὶ δευτέρ…

Herodian

…κλιτὺς ἡ Τεμμικία«. Νεφελοκοκκυγγία πόλις κωμικῶς ἐπινοηθεῖσα παρὰ Ἀριστοφάνει, καὶ ἑνικῶς καὶ πληθυντικῶς λεγομένη. Κωρυκία ἀκρωτήριον Κρήτης, Ἰαπυγία δύο πόλεις, μία ἐν τῇ Ἰταλίᾳ καὶ ἑτέρα ἐν τῇ Ἰλλυρίδι, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος. Καππαδοκία χώρα τῇ Κιλικίᾳ πρόσχωρος, ὥς φησι Μένιππος, ἀπὸ Σινώπης εἰς Εὔαρχον ποταμόν, ὃς ὁρίζει Παφλαγονίαν καὶ Καππαδοκίαν. σεσημείωται τὸ ἀνθρακιά ὀξυνόμενον. Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'οα' σπάνια καὶ κατὰ πάθος γενόμενα παρ´ Ἀττικοῖς παροξύνεται, οἴα ὄα τὸ δέρμα· ἔστι καὶ δῆμος τῆς Ἀττικῆς τῆς Πανδιονίδος φυλῆς Ὄα. Διονύσιος δὲ ὁ Τρύφωνός φησι πληθυντικ…

Herodian 1.43

char LCS 28 (8.6%) · word LCS 5 (8.5%)

Stephanos

Καππαδοκία, χώρα τῇ Κιλικίᾳ πρόσχωρος, ὥς φησι Μένιππος “ἀπὸ Σινώπης εἰς Εὔαρχον ποταμόν, ὃς ὁρίζει Παφλαγονίαν καὶ Καππαδοκίαν ...” τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καππάδοξ καὶ Καππάδοκος. καὶ Καππαδόκης· Ἡρόδοτος δέ φησιν. ὁ κτιστὴς Καππάδοκος εἴρηται ὑπὸ Μενάνδρου. λέγεται καὶ Καππαδόκισσα, ὡς Αἰθιόπισσα καὶ πανδόκισσα. διῄρητο δ´ οὐχ ὡς νῦν εἰς πρώτην καὶ δευτέραν, ἀλλ´ εἰς μείζονα καὶ ἐλάττονα, καὶ μικρὰν καὶ μεγάλην.

Herodian

…ας, Χάραξ δὲ διὰ τοῦ 'ο' Ἀλλόβρογας. ἴσοξ ποιός τις ἰχθῦς, ἄλοξ, παρὰ δέ τισιν αὖλαξ, πρὸς τούτοις δὲ καὶ τὸ Καππάδοξ ἔθνος τῇ Κιλικίᾳ πρόσχωρον. τοῦτο δὲ λέγεται καὶ Καππάδοκος—οὕτως καὶ ὁ κτιστὴς εἴρηται ὑπὸ Μενάνδρου—καὶ Καππαδόκης. Ἡρόδοτος δέ φησιν (I 72). Τὰ εἰς 'ιξ' βαρύνεται· φοῖνιξ· ἔστι δὲ καὶ κύριον Φοῖνιξ Ἀγήνορος παῖς ἢ Ποσειδῶνος καὶ Λιβύης, ᾧ ὁμοφωνεῖ τὸ ἐθνικόν. ἔστι καὶ φρούριον Καρίας οὐ πολὺ ἀπέχον Ῥόδου. καὶ ποταμός ἐστι Φοῖνιξ. βέμβιξ, Τέμμιξ ἔθνος…