Καφηρεύς - Stephanos Ethnika

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Καφηρεύς, ἐπίνειον Εὐβοίας, ὅς τις Καθηρεύς ἐκαλεῖτο, ὅτι τοὺς πλέοντας ἐκεῖ καθῄρουν οἱ Εὐβοεῖς. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὁμοφώνως. καὶ τὸ θηλυκὸν Καφηρίς, καὶ κτητικὸν Καφήριος.

Kaphereus: a harbour in Euboia, which used to be called 'Kathereus', because the Euboians used to destroy those sailing there. The ethnonym has the same form. The feminine is 'Kaphiris', and the possessive adjective 'Kaphirios'.

Text Details

Entry	#141
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 370.12
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-19
Word count	23
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Καφηρεύς	Kaphereus (harbour/cape) · place · corrected · Q1982478
Εὔβοια	Euboea · place · corrected · Q173096
Καθηρεὺς	Kathereus (variant of Καφηρεύς) · place
Εὐβοεῖς	Euboeans · people
Καφηρίς	Kapheris (feminine ethnicon/demonym) · people
Καφήριος	Kaphērios (possessive/demonym) · people
Καφηρεύς	place · place · explicit · wikidata: Q1982478 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Folk Etymology Narrative	“which was called Kathereus, because the Euboeans there used to kathēroun the voyagers (i.e. they used to [perform an action on/for] those sailing there).”

Links

Place links	Cape Kafireas \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0363.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐπίνειον τό gloss:46afdab8fb7d9415	harbour Domain: WATER BODIES/COASTS 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

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.241

char LCS 73 (54.1%) · word LCS 8 (33.3%)

Stephanos

Καφηρεύς, ἐπίνειον Εὐβοίας, ὅς τις Καθηρεύς ἐκαλεῖτο, ὅτι τοὺς πλέοντας ἐκεῖ καθῄρουν οἱ Εὐβοεῖς. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὁμοφώνως. καὶ τὸ θηλυκὸν Καφηρίς, καὶ κτητικὸν Καφήριος.

Herodian

…τιακῶν πρώτῃ. Ἐταιεῖς διὰ διφθόγγου ὡς Διπαιεῖς. ἔστι δὲ πόλις Λακωνική. Ἰμφεῖς ἔθνος προσεχὲς τοῖς Περραιβοῖς. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ »Ἰμφέες, Περραιβοί«. Ἰουλεῖς οἱ Ῥωμαῖοι ἀπὸ βασιλέως, ἀφ´ οὗ καὶ ὁ μήν, ἢ ἀπὸ Ἰουλίδος. Καφαρεύς ἐπίνειον Εὐβοίας, ὅστις Καθηρεύς ἐκαλεῖτο, ὅτι τοὺς πλέοντας ἐκεῖ καθῄρουν οἱ Εὐβοιεῖς. Λητωεύς δῆμος ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ, ὡς Τρύφων ἐν τῷ περὶ παρωνύμων, ὅτι παρὰ τὸ Λητῷος κτητικὸν σχηματίζεται. Μαλιεύς πόλις ἐπώνυμος τῶν Μαλιέων ἀπὸ Μάλου τοῦ Ἀμφικτύονος υἱοῦ ἢ Ἀμύρου τοῦ Βοιωτοῦ. Μωριεῖς ἔθνος Ἰνδικὸν …