Κεγχρεαί - Stephanos Ethnika

Κεγχρεαί OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Κεγχρεαί, πόλις Τρῳάδος, ἐν ᾗ διέτριψεν Ὅμηρος μανθάνων τὰ κατὰ τοὺς Τρῶας. δευτέρα πόλις καὶ ἐπίνειον Κορίνθου. τρίτη Ἰταλίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κεγχρεάτης ὡς Κορσεάτης. λέγεται καὶ Κέγχρειος ὁ Ποσειδῶν ἀπὸ τοῦ υἱοῦ ἥρωος Κεγχρίου.

Kenchreai: a city in the Troad, in which Homer spent time learning the history of the Trojans. A second, a city and harbour of Corinth. A third in Italy. The ethnonym is 'Kenchreates' (as in 'Korseates'). Poseidon is also called 'Kenchreios' after his son, the hero Kenchrios.

Text Details

Entry	#146
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 371.7 · Billerbeck Κ146
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-19
Word count	34
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ὅμηρος (Homer)	—

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κεγχρεαί	Kenchreai (Cenchreae) · place · corrected · Q60791302
Τρωάς	Troas · place
Τρῶες	Troans · people
Κόρινθος	Corinth · place · corrected · Q1363688
Ἰταλία	Italy · place
Κεγχρεάτης	Kenchreate (ethnic name) · people
Κορσεάτης	Korseates (ethnic name) · people
Κέγχρειος	Kenchreian (epithet) · other · corrected · Q137611052
Ποσειδῶν	Poseidon · deity · corrected · Q41127
Κεγχρίος	Kenchrios (hero) · person · corrected · Q57208772
Κεγχρεαί	place · explicit · wikidata: Q60791302 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) Κεγχρεάτης (Kenchreates) formed similarly to Κορσεάτης (Korseates).
Eponym Person	It is said that Poseidon is also called Kenchreios from the son-hero Kenchrios (i.e. the name derives from the hero Kenchrios).

Links

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

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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
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
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES 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

Herodian overlaps

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

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.