Κεβρηνία - Stephanos Ethnika

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Κεβρηνία, χώρα τῆς Τρῳάδος, ἀπὸ Κεβριόνου τοῦ Πριάμου. Δίδυμος δὲ Κεβρῆνα τὴν πόλιν φησίν. Ἡρωδιανὸς δὲ ἀπὸ Κεβρῆνος ποταμοῦ. ὁ οἰκήτωρ Κεβρηνός καὶ Κεβρηνεύς καὶ Κεβρήνιος.

Kebrenia: a region of the Troad, from Kebrion, son of Priam. Didymos says the city is Kebrena. Herodian says it is from the river Kebren. An inhabitant is a 'Kebrenos', also 'Kebreneus' and 'Kebrenios'.

Text Details

Entry	#145
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 371.3 · Billerbeck Κ145
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-19
Word count	26
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Δίδυμος (Didymus)	—
Ἡρωδιανός (Herodianus (Herodian))	(1,15,20)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κεβρηνία	Kebrenia · place · corrected · Q3566306
Τρωάς	Troas · place
Κεβρήνος	Kebrion / Kebrenos (son of Priam) · person
Πρίαμος	Priam · person
Κεβρῆνα	Kebrena (the city) · place
Κεβρήνος	Kebrenos / Kebrenus (river) · place
Κεβρηνός	Kebrenos (inhabitant) · people
Κεβρηνεύς	Kebreneus (inhabitant) · people
Κεβρήνιος	Kebrenios (inhabitant) · people
Κεβρηνία	place · explicit · wikidata: Q3566306 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from Kebrionos, son of Priam (i.e., named after Kebrionos, son of Priam).
Place Transfer	from the river Kebrenos (i.e., named after the river Kebrenos).

Links

Place links	Cebrene \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0379.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	οἰκήτωρ ὁ gloss:3810d98aa6c81247	inhabitant, resident, patron (of a brothel...? - κ123) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις); land (remote or poetical places) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 3 scan rows · 3 occurrences

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.15

char LCS 29 (20.4%) · word LCS 6 (23.1%)

Stephanos

Κεβρηνία, χώρα τῆς Τρῳάδος, ἀπὸ Κεβριόνου τοῦ Πριάμου. Δίδυμος δὲ Κεβρῆνα τὴν πόλιν φησίν. Ἡρωδιανὸς δὲ ἀπὸ Κεβρῆνος ποταμοῦ. ὁ οἰκήτωρ Κεβρηνός καὶ Κεβρηνεύς καὶ Κεβρήνιος.

Herodian

… ἐσσήν, ὀσσήν, Τελλήν, βαλλήν πλὴν τοῦ Ἕλλην καὶ ὁ ἥρως καὶ τὸ ἔθνος. τὸ δὲ ἄρρην Ἀττικῶς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἄρσην γέγονε. Τὰ εἰς 'ην' κατ´ ἐπιπλοκὴν δύο συμφώνων ὀξύνεται, πυθμήν, Κεβρήν ποταμός, ἀφ´ οὗ Κεβρηνία χώρα τῆς Τρῳάδος. Δίδυμος δὲ Κεβρῆνα τὴν πόλιν φησίν—πλὴν τοῦ Ἕκτην, ὃ ἔχει τὴν πρὸ τέλους