Κάστνιον

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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All Letters / Κ Kappa / Κάστνιον
Κάστνιον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
mountain
Κάστνιον, ὄρος ἐν Ἀσπένδῳ τῆς Παμφυλίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κάστνιος καὶ Κάστνιον, ἐξ οὗ καὶ Καστνιήτης. ἔδει δὲ Καστνιώτης ὡς Πηλιώτης.

Kastnion: a mountain in Aspendos of Pamphylia. The ethnonym is 'Kastnios' and 'Kastnion', from which also 'Kastnietes'. But it ought to be 'Kastniotes'.

Text Details

Entry#121
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 366.17 · Billerbeck Κ121
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-19
Word count51
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΚάστνιονKastnion · place
ἌσπενδοςAspendos · place
ΠαμφυλίαPamphylia · place
ΚάστνιοςKastnios (ethnic name) · people
ΚαστνιήτηςKastnietes (inhabitant) · people
ΚαστνιώτηςKastniotes (inhabitant) · people
ΠηλιώτηςPeliote (inhabitant of Pelion) · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Place TransferHerodotus says that Kastion is a certain plain of Syria, as they told him.
Folk Etymology NarrativeAnd that there was a river Kastolos, the Lydians say (it is) of the Dorians.
Place TransferThere was also a city in Lydia called Kastolos.
Morphological CompositionThe ethnicon (demonym) Kastiéus, Kastiōnos. The ethnicon Kastólios (like Spartólios), and the possessive Kastolikós.

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Herodian overlaps

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