Κασπία θάλασσα - Stephanos Ethnika

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Κασπία θάλασσα, οἱ ἐξ αὐτῆς Κάσπιοι καὶ Κάσπιον ὄρος καὶ Κάσπιοι ἄνδρες καὶ Κασπία γῆ καὶ Κάσπιον. λέγεται καὶ Ὑρκανία ἡ Κασπία. τινὲς δὲ ταύτας διακρίνουσι. “φασὶ δὲ τὴν ἔξω θάλατταν οἱ πολλοὶ τῶν βαρβάρων ὠκεανόν, οἱ δὲ τὴν Ἀσίαν οἰκοῦντες μεγάλην θάλατταν, οἱ δ´ Ἕλληνες Ἀτλαντικὸν πέλαγος ....” γίνεται δὲ Κασπιανός ἐκ τοῦ Κασπία ὡς Καρδιανός.

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Text Details

Entry	#110
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 365.3 · Billerbeck Κ110
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-19
Word count	55

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Favorinus	fr. 95a Amato = fr. 82 Barigazzi
Amato (Amato (editor))	—
Barigazzi (Barigazzi (editor))	—

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κασπία	Caspian (Sea) · place
Κάσπιος	Caspian(s) (people) · people
Κάσπιον ὄρος	Caspian Mountain · place
Κασπία γῆ	Caspian land · place
Ὑρκανία	Hyrcania · place · corrected · Q48726
Ὠκεανός	Ocean (Oceanus) · place
Ἀσία	Asia · place
Ἕλλην	Greeks · people
Ἀτλαντικὸν πέλαγος	Atlantic Sea (Atlantic Ocean) · place
Κασπιανός	Caspian (ethnic/adjectival) · people
Καρδιανός	Kardianos (analogy) · other
Κασπία θάλασσα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q5484 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The Caspian Sea; those from it are the Caspians, and Mount Caspion, Caspian men, Caspian land and Caspian — i.e. these names are derived from the sea.
Place Transfer	It is also called Hyrcanian Caspia (i.e. Caspia associated with Hyrcania).
Morphological Composition	'Caspian' is formed from 'Kaspias' in the same way as 'Kardianos' (i.e. the adjective is derived from the place-name).

Links

Place links	Caspian Sea \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0311.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (definite ARTICLE + ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:bcd70ae781e7b205	Translate as "just as 'Y' is from the name X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	γῆ ἡ gloss:728db30aa96e9869	land, dirt, Earth Domain: TERRAIN/LANDMASSES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ὄρος ὁ gloss:184051ff413f789d	mountain, mount (X ὄρος = 'Mount X') Domain: TERRAIN/LANDMASSES	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.179

char LCS 59 (21.3%) · word LCS 11 (19.6%)

Stephanos

Κασπία θάλασσα, οἱ ἐξ αὐτῆς Κάσπιοι καὶ Κάσπιον ὄρος καὶ Κάσπιοι ἄνδρες καὶ Κασπία γῆ καὶ Κάσπιον. λέγεται καὶ Ὑρκανία ἡ Κασπία. τινὲς δὲ ταύτας διακρίνουσι. “φασὶ δὲ τὴν ἔξω θάλατταν οἱ πολλοὶ τῶν βαρβάρων ὠκεανόν, οἱ δὲ τὴν Ἀσίαν οἰκοῦντες μεγάλην θάλατταν, οἱ δ´ Ἕλληνες Ἀτλαντικὸν πέλαγος ....” γίνεται δὲ Κασπιανός ἐκ τοῦ Κασπία ὡς Καρδιανός.

Herodian

…δίας. Ὅμηρος «Ἰαρδάνου ἀμφὶ ῥέεθρα» (Il. Η 135), ἃ προπαροξύνονται. «τὸ δὲ 'ε' πρὸ τοῦ 'α'» διὰ τὸ ὠκεανός ὁ ποταμὸς ὁ περιέχων τὴν γῆν. Φαβωρῖνος ἐν ταῖς παντοδαπαῖς ἱστορίαις «προσαγορεύουσι δὲ τὴν ἔξω θάλατταν ἐκεῖ μὲν οἱ πολλοὶ τῶν βαρβάρων Ὠκεανόν, οἱ δὲ τὴν Ἀσίαν οἰκοῦντες μεγάλην θάλασσαν, οἱ δὲ Ἕλληνες Ἀτλαντικὸν πέλαγος». ἐκλήθη δὲ οὕτως παρὰ τὸ ὠκέως νάειν, ὅ ἐστι ῥεῖν. καὶ «τὸ 'υ' πρὸ τοῦ 'α'» διὰ τὸ πυανός καὶ κυανός. Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'ανος' τριγενῆ ὀξύνεται, στεγανός ὁ πυκνός, πιθανός ὁ πρᾷος, ἱκανός…