Κασταλών - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #118
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 366.8 | Billerbeck: Κ118
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-19
Word count: 14
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Sources: Ἀρτεμίδωρος (Artemidorus (III)) fr. 18 Stiehle [Γεωγραφουμένων]
Entities: Καστάλων (Kastalon) [place], Ὠριτανία (Oritania) [place], Κασταλωνίτης (Kastalonite (inhabitant of Kastalon)) [people], Ἀσκαλωνίτης (Ascalonite (inhabitant of Ascalon)) [people], Ταρρακωνίτης (Tarrakonite (inhabitant of Tarrakon)) [people]
Etymologies: Morphological Composition: The ethnicon (demonym) 'Κασταλωνίτης' (Kastalonites), formed like 'Ἀσκαλωνίτης' (Askalonites) and 'Ταρασσηςίτης' (Tarassenites).
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Κασταλών, μεγίστη πόλις Ὠρητανίας, ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος τρίτῳ γεωγραφουμένων. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κασταλωνίτης ὡς Ἀσκαλωνίτης Ταρρακωνίτης.

Kastalōn: a very great city of Oritania, as Artemidoros says in the third book of his *Geographoumena*. The ethnic adjective is Kastalōnitēs, on the model of Askalōnitēs, Tarrakōnitēs.

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Stephanos

Κασταλών, μεγίστη πόλις Ὠρητανίας, ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος τρίτῳ γεωγραφουμένων. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κασταλωνίτης ὡς Ἀσκαλωνίτης Ταρρακωνίτης.

Herodian

Συρίαν στρατεῦσαι κἀκεῖ παρθένου ἐρασθέντα πόλιν κτίσαι, ἣν ἀφ´ ἑαυτοῦ οὕτως ὠνόμασε. τὰ αὐτὰ καὶ Νικόλαος ἐν τετάρτῃ ἱστοριῶν. Καστάλων μεγίστη πόλις Ὠρητανίας, ὡς Ἀρτεμίδωρος τρίτῳ γεωγραφουμένων. Ἀπόλλων, Κεφάλων, Ἀτιτάλλων. τὸ δὲ ἀμπελών καὶ καμηλών ὡς περιεκτικὰ ὀξύνεται· τὸ Βαβυλών ἀρσενικῶς, ἀφ´ οὗ καὶ ἡ πόλις. ἔστι γὰρ κτίσμα Βαβυλῶνος παιδὸς Βήλου παλαίτατον, οὐχ ὡς Ἡρόδοτος ὑπὸ Σεμιράμιδος· ταύτης γὰρ ἦν…