Καρδία

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Καρδία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
city
Entry #77
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 358.3 | Billerbeck: Κ77
OCR: gemini-3-flash (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-18
Word count: 39
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Καρδία (Kardia (city)) [place], Θρᾴκη (Thrace) [place], Χερσόνησος (Chersonesus (Chersonese peninsula)) [place], Ἑρμοχάρης (Hermocharus) [person], Σκύθαι (Scythians) [people], Καρδιανός (Kardianos (citizen of Kardia)) [people], Ἀσιανός (Asian (person from Asia)) [people]
Etymologies: Folk Etymology Narrative: Hermocharus, the founder, while sacrificing, a crow seized the heart and flew off carrying it to this place, and for that reason it was called thus.; Borrowing Non Greek: Or that it is called thus in the language of the Scythians.
Place: Cardia | 📍 Map
Source: e9783110219630_i0254.jpg
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Καρδία, πόλις τῆς ἐν Θρᾴκῃ Χερρονήσου. Ἑρμοχάρους δὲ τοῦ κτιστοῦ θύοντος κόρακα τὴν καρδίαν ἁρπάσαντα καὶ ἀναπτάντα εἰς τόνδε τὸν χῶρον μεθεῖναι, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο οὕτως ἐκλήθη. ἢ ὅτι τῇ Σκυθῶν γλώττῃ οὕτως κεκλῆσθαι. ὁ πολίτης Καρδιανός ὡς Ἀσιανός.
Kardia: a city of the Thracian Chersonese. When Hermokhares, the founder, was sacrificing, a raven snatched the heart and, flying off, dropped it in this very place; and for this reason it was so called. Or else because in the Scythian language it is so named. The citizen is Kardianos, as (one says) Asianos.

Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.300
char LCS 57 (28.4%) · word LCS 11 (28.2%)
Stephanos
Καρδία, πόλις τῆς ἐν Θρᾴκῃ Χερρονήσου. Ἑρμοχάρους δὲ τοῦ κτιστοῦ θύοντος κόρακα τὴν καρδίαν ἁρπάσαντα καὶ ἀναπτάντα εἰς τόνδε τὸν χῶρον μεθεῖναι, καὶ διὰ τοῦτο οὕτως ἐκλήθη. ἢ ὅτι τῇ Σκυθῶν γλώττῃ οὕτως κεκλῆσθαι. ὁ πολίτης Καρδιανός ὡς Ἀσιανός.
Herodian
…αλιά. τὸ δὲ ἀσπαλία ἡ ἁλεία βαρύνεται. Τὰ εἰς 'α' μακρὸν τρισύλλαβα παραληγόμενα τῷ 'ι' ἐπὶ οὐσίας λαμβανόμενα βαρύνεται χωρίς τινων, καρδία· ἔστι Καρδία καὶ πόλις τῆς ἐν Θρᾴκῃ Χερρονήσου ἡ ὕστερον Λυσιμάχεια. Ἑρμοχάρου δὲ τοῦ κτιστοῦ θύοντος κόρακα τὴν καρδίαν ἁρπάσαντα καὶ ἀναπτάντα ἐς τόνδε τὸν χῶρον μεθεῖναι καὶ διὰ τοῦτο οὕτως ἐκλήθη. ἢ ὅτι Σκυθῶν γλώσσῃ οὕτω κεκλῆσθαι. σχεδία, ζημία, σηπία, οἰκία, φυλία, τηλία,

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