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Entry #68
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 356.12 | Billerbeck: Κ68
OCR: gemini-3-flash (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-18
Word count: 62
Sources: Μένιππος (Menippos (Menippus)) 6002 Diller = GGM 1,571,20, Ἡρόδοτος (Herodotus) (1,72,1), Μενάνδρος (Menander) FGrHist 783 F 9
Entities: Καππαδοκία (Cappadocia) [place], Κιλικία (Cilicia) [place], Σινώπη (Sinope) [place], Εὔαρχος (Euarchos (river)) [place], Παφλαγονία (Paphlagonia) [place], 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]
Etymologies: 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.
Place: Cappadocia | 📍 Map
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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.

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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…