Κάδρεμα - Stephanos Ethnika

Κάδρεμα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Κάδρεμα, πόλις Λυκίας, ἄποικος Ὀλβίων. ἑρμηνεύεται δὲ σίτου φρυγμὸς ἡ πόλις. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καδρεμεύς.

Kadrema: a city in Lycia, a settlement of the Olbians. The city has been interpreted to mean 'roasting of grain'. The ethnonym is 'Kadremeus'.

Text Details

Entry	#9
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 346.11 · Billerbeck Κ9
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-19
Word count	14

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κάδρεμα	Cadrema · place
Λυκία	Lycia · place
Ὀλβῖοι	Olbians · people
Καδρεμεύς	Cadremeus (demonym) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The city is explained as 'σίτου φρυγμὸς' — literally 'a grinding/crushing (φρυγμὸς) of grain (σίτου)', i.e. named for grain-milling or a place of grain grinding.
Place Transfer	(It is) a colony of the Olbians.

Links

Place links	Cadrema \| 📍 Map
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0067.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.382

char LCS 62 (77.5%) · word LCS 11 (78.6%)

Stephanos

Κάδρεμα, πόλις Λυκίας, ἄποικος Ὀλβίων. ἑρμηνεύεται δὲ σίτου φρυγμὸς ἡ πόλις. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καδρεμεύς.

Herodian

πόλις Παφλαγονίας, ἐν ᾗ ᾤκησεν ὁ παλαιὸς Φινεύς. Δίδυμος δὲ νῆσον αὐτήν φησιν. Κάδρεμα πόλις Λυκίας, ἄποικος Ὀλβίων. ἑρμηνεύεται δὲ σίτου φρυγμὸς ἡ πόλις. Βήθλεμα πόλις Παλαιστίνης πρὸς τοῖς Ἱεροσολύμοις. Ἰώσηπος δέ φησιν «ἐκ Βηθλεεμῶν» (A. i. 5, 11). Ἄριμα ὄρος. Ὅμηρος «εἰν Ἀρίμοις ὅθι φασὶ Τυφωέος ἔμμεναι εὐνάς» (Β 783). οἱ μὲν ἐν Κιλικίᾳ, οἱ δὲ ἐν Συρίᾳ, οἱ δὲ ἐν Πιθη…