Κάσος - Stephanos Ethnika

Κάσος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

island

Κάσος, μία τῶν Κυκλάδων. “οἳ δ´ ἄρα Νίσυρόν τ´ εἶχον Κράπαθόν τε Κάσον τε”. ἐκαλεῖτο δ´ Ἄμφη καὶ Ἀστράβη· κέκληται δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ Κάσου τοῦ Κλεόχου πατρός. ἀπῴκισται δὲ τῆς νήσου καὶ τὸ ἐν Συρίᾳ ὄρος Κάσιον. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα Περσίδος καὶ πόλις. καὶ τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κάσιος.

Kasos: one of the Cyclades. 'And those who held Nisyros and Karpathos and Kasos'. It used to be called Amphe and Astrabe; it is now named after Kasos, the father of Kleochos. Mount Kasios in Syria was also settled from this island. There is another Kasos in Persia which is a city, and the ethnonym is 'Kasios'.

Text Details

Entry	#107
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 364.3 · Billerbeck Κ107
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-19
Word count	47

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κάσος	Kasos (island) · place
Κυκλάδες	Cyclades · place
Νίσυρος	Nisyros · place
Κράπαθος	Karpathos · place
Ἄχνη	Achnē · place
Ἀστράβη	Astrabē · place
Κάσος	Kasos (mythic eponym) · person
Κλέοχος	Kleochos · person
Συρία	Syria · place
Κάσιος	Mount Kasios (Casius) · place
Περσίς	Persis / Persia · place
Κάσιος	Kasios (demonym) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	It is said to be named after Kasos, son of Cleochus (i.e. named for that eponymous person).
Place Transfer	Also the mountain in Syria called Kasios is (said to be) from the island (i.e. the name was transferred from the island to the mountain).
Unclear Metalinguistic	It was called Ache and Astrabe (alternative names are given, without a stated origin).
Unclear Metalinguistic	There is also another Persian village and the ethnicon (demonym) Kasios (mentions other place-names/demonyms without explaining origin).

Links

Place links	Kasos \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0308.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.205

char LCS 50 (24.8%) · word LCS 13 (27.7%)

Stephanos

Κάσος, μία τῶν Κυκλάδων. “οἳ δ´ ἄρα Νίσυρόν τ´ εἶχον Κράπαθόν τε Κάσον τε”. ἐκαλεῖτο δ´ Ἄμφη καὶ Ἀστράβη· κέκληται δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ Κάσου τοῦ Κλεόχου πατρός. ἀπῴκισται δὲ τῆς νήσου καὶ τὸ ἐν Συρίᾳ ὄρος Κάσιον. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα Περσίδος καὶ πόλις. καὶ τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κάσιος.

Herodian

… Καλαβρός ὁ οἰκήτωρ τῆς Καλαβρίας ὡς τῆς Κανταβρίας Κανταβρός. τὸ δὲ Ἴνσοβρος ἔθνος Ἰταλικὸν Πολύβιος ιϛʹ βαρύνεται. Τὰ εἰς 'σος' διβράχεα βαρύνεται, Θάσος νῆσος πρὸς τῇ Θρᾴκῃ ἀπὸ Θάσου. Κάσος Κλεόχου υἱὸς καὶ ἀπ´ αὐτοῦ μία τῶν Κυκλάδων «οἱ δ´ ἄρα Νίσυρόν τ´ εἶχον Κράπαθόν τε Κάσον τε» (Β 676). ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα Περσίδος πόλις. Ἄσος πολίχνιον Κρήτης. νόσος, δρόσος, πίσος τὸ ὄσπριον, μέσος, ἴσος, πόσος, ὅσος, τόσος.