Καῦνος - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #139
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 370.1 | Billerbeck: Κ139
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-19
Word count: 53
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Diogenianus (Diogenianus) Diogenian. 5,71 [I 265,3 Leutsch/Schneidewin], Strabo (Strabo) cf. Str. 14,2,3 [C 651,29], Z (Z (abbr.)) Z 146
Entities: Καῦνος (Kaunos) [place], Καία (Caria) [place], Καῦνος (Kaunos) [place], Βυβλίς (Byblis) [person], Στρατόνικος (Stratonikos) [person], Κρήτη (Crete) [place], Καύνιος (the Kaunii / inhabitants of Kaunos) [people], Καύνιος (Kaunios (ethnic)) [people], Καυνία (Kaunia (ethnic, fem.)) [people], Καυναῖος (Kaunaios (ethnic)) [people]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: from Kaunos; his sister Byblis, having fallen in love with him and fleeing from him, hanged herself.
Place: Kaunos | 📍 Map
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Καῦνος, πόλις Καρίας, ἀπὸ Καύνου, οὗ ἡ ἀδελφὴ Βυβλὶς ἐρασθεῖσα φεύγοντος ἐκείνου [ἀπήγξατο]. ὅθεν ἡ παροιμία ὁ Καύνιος ἔρως. ἔστι δὲ νοσώδης, ὅθεν καὶ Στρατόνικος ὁ κιθαριστὴς ἰδὼν ἐπιμελῶς χλωροὺς τοὺς Καυνίους ἔφη “οἵηπερ φύλλων γενεή, τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν”. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πόλις ἐν Κρήτῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καύνιος καὶ Καυνία καὶ Καυναῖος.

Caunus: a city of Caria, named after Caunus, whose sister Byblis, having fallen in love, when he fled hanged herself. Hence the proverb (Diogenianus 5.71) “the Caunian love.” It is, however, a diseased (i.e. morbid) love; whence also Stratonikos the citharode, when he had carefully observed that the Caunians were pale, said: “As is the race of leaves, so too of men” (Il. 6.146). There is also another city in Crete. The ethnic is Caunios, and Caunia, and Caunaios.

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Herodian 1.178

char LCS 23 (8.6%) · word LCS 6 (11.3%)

Stephanos

…ἀδελφὴ Βυβλὶς ἐρασθεῖσα φεύγοντος ἐκείνου [ἀπήγξατο]. ὅθεν ἡ παροιμία ὁ Καύνιος ἔρως. ἔστι δὲ νοσώδης, ὅθεν καὶ Στρατόνικος ὁ κιθαριστὴς ἰδὼν ἐπιμελῶς χλωροὺς τοὺς Καυνίους ἔφη “οἵηπερ φύλλων γενεή, τοίη δὲ καὶ ἀνδρῶν”. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πόλις ἐν Κρήτῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Καύνιος καὶ Καυνία καὶ Καυναῖος.

Herodian

μέντοι κοινός τριγενὲς ὥσπερ τὸ δαφοινός, κελαινός, καινός, αἰνός. Τὰ εἰς 'νος' διφθόγγῳ παραληγόμενα τῇ διὰ τοῦ 'υ' μονογενῆ ὀξύνονται, καυνός καὶ Καυνός πόλις Καρίας ὁμοφώνως τῷ οἰκιστῇ. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πόλις ἐν Κρήτῃ. γλαυνός (?), βαυνός, ὅπερ οἱ Ἀττικοὶ βαρύνουσι, κρουνός· εἰσὶ καὶ Κρουνοί πόλις ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ ἀπὸ τῆς τῶν ὑδάτων καταρροῆς. βουνός, κεραυνός. τὸ μέντοι χαῦνος τριγενές. καὶ Χαῦνος ἔθνος Θεσπρωτικὸν—Ῥιανὸς τετάρτῳ Θεσσαλι…