Καπρίη

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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All Letters / Κ Kappa / Καπρίη
Καπρίη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
island
Καπρίη, νῆσος Ἰταλίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. λέγονται καὶ Καπριαί· τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καπριάτης. ἐντεῦθεν ἦν Βλαῖσος σπουδογελοίων ποιητὴς Καπριάτης.

Kaprie: an island of Italy. Hekataios in his Europa. They are also called Kapriai. The ethnonym is 'Kapriates'. From there was Blaisos, a composer of spoudogeloia, a Kapriates.

Text Details

Entry#69
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 357.1 · Billerbeck Κ69
OCRgemini-3-flash (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-18
Word count17
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)Εὐρώπῃ · FGrHist 1 F 63
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΚαπρίηCapri · place
ἸταλίαItaly · place
ΚαπρίηCapri (plural/islands) · place
ΚαπριάτηςCapriote (demonym) · people
ΒλαῖσοςBlaisos · person
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Unclear MetalinguisticThe entry names the island 'Capri' (an island of Italy), cites Hecataeus (Europa), records the variant form 'Kapriai' and the ethnicon 'Kapriates', and notes the poet Blaisos was a Capriote. No explanation is given for the origin of the name.

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Herodian overlaps

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Last updated: 2026-04-12 10:11:05 UTC