Κασάνδρεια - Stephanos Ethnika

Κασάνδρεια OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Κασάνδρεια, πόλις Μακεδονίας πρὸς τῇ Θρᾴκῃ, ἥ ποτε Ποτίδαια, λεγομένη, ἀπὸ Κασάνδρου τοῦ Ἀντιπάτρου. ὁ πολίτης Κασανδρεύς. Ποσείδιππος δὲ κωμῳδίας ποιητὴς υἱὸς ἦν Κυνίσκου Κασανδρέως.

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Text Details

Entry	#111
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 365.10 · Billerbeck Κ111
OCR	headword constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-18
Word count	25
Translation status	Most differences are orthographic (accent/breathing placement) and punctuation; one substantive lexical substitution: Ποσιδίππος → Ποσείδιππος (different spelling of the poet's name).

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ποσειδίππος (Poseidippus)	test. 2 Kassel/Austin [PCG VII 561]

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κασσάνδρεια	Kassandreia (Cassandreia) · place · corrected · Q999468
Μακεδονία	Macedonia · place · corrected · Q81734
Θράκη	Thrace · place
Ποτιδαῖα	Potidaea · place
Κάσσανδρος	Cassander · person
Ἀντίπατρος	Antipater · person
Κασανδρεύς	a Cassandrean (citizen of Kassandreia) · people
Κουίντιος	Quintius / Quintus (Roman name) · person
Κασανδρεύς	Cassandreus (genitive of Κασανδρεύς) · person
Κασάνδρεια	place · explicit · wikidata: Q999468 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	which was formerly called Potidaea
Eponym Person	from Cassander the son of Antipater

Links

Place links	Potidaea \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0314.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X... + πρός + Y (dative) formula:1a524ea80fe79519	Translate as "X... near Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	πολίτης ὁ gloss:1c7dda400d7265cb	citizen Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	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 1.278

char LCS 82 (53.9%) · word LCS 14 (56.0%)

Stephanos

Κασάνδρεια, πόλις Μακεδονίας πρὸς τῇ Θρᾴκῃ, ἥ ποτε Ποτίδαια, λεγομένη, ἀπὸ Κασάνδρου τοῦ Ἀντιπάτρου. ὁ πολίτης Κασανδρεύς. Ποσείδιππος δὲ κωμῳδίας ποιητὴς υἱὸς ἦν Κυνίσκου Κασανδρέως.

Herodian

…τρόπολις τῆς Καππαδοκίας ἡ πρὶν Εὐσέβεια καὶ Μάζακα ὡς Στράβων. εἰσὶ καὶ ἄλλαι τούτῳ τῷ ὀνόματι προσαγορευόμεναι. Καλαύρεια νησίδιον πρὸς τῇ Κρήτῃ ἀπὸ Καλαύρου τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος. Κάρπεια· οὕτως τινὲς τὴν Κάλπην πόλιν φασί. Κασάνδρεια πόλις Μακεδονίας πρὸς τῇ Θρᾴκῃ, ἥ ποτε Ποτίδαια λεγομένη, ἀπὸ Κασάνδρου τοῦ Ἀντιπάτρου. Κεκρυφάλεια ἄκρα τις, περὶ ἣν ἐνίκησαν Αἰγινήτας Ἀθηναῖοι. τινὲς δὲ νῆσον αὐτήν φασι Πελοποννήσου. Κορώνεια πόλις Βοιωτίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἀπὸ Κορώνου τοῦ Θερσάνδρου. δευτέρα πόλις Πελοποννήσου μεταξὺ Σικυῶνος καὶ Κο…