Κόσσα

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Κόσσα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
city
Entry #183
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 378.9 | Billerbeck: Κ183
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-20
Word count: 11
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 68 [Εὐρώπῃ]
Entities: Κόσσα (Kossa (city)) [place], Οἰνώτριαι (Oenotrians) [people], Μεσόγειος (the Mediterranean (Sea)) [place], Κοσσανοί (Kossanoi (citizens of Kossa)) [people]
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Κόσσα, πόλις Οἰνώτρων ἐν τῷ μεσογείῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. οἱ πολῖται Κοσσανοί.
Kossa: a city of the Oinotrians in the interior. Hekataios in his *Europa*. The citizens are called Kossanoi.

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.267
char LCS 44 (72.1%) · word LCS 8 (72.7%)
Stephanos
Κόσσα, πόλις Οἰνώτρων ἐν τῷ μεσογείῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. οἱ πολῖται Κοσσανοί.
Herodian
…σσα πόλις ἐν Λέσβῳ ἀπὸ Ἴσσης τῆς Μάκαρος, ἔστι καὶ νῆσος πόλιν ὁμώνυμον ἔχουσα κατὰ Δαλματίαν καὶ Ἰλλυρίαν. Τίσσα χωρίον Σικελίας. Φίλιστος ἐνάτῳ. κίσσα, λύσσα, ὄσσα, κρόσσα· ἔστι καὶ πόλις πρὸς τῷ Πόντῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Κόσσα πόλις Οἰνωτρῶν ἐν τῷ μεσογείῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Πάσσα πόλις Θρᾴκης. Ἄσσα πόλις πρὸς τῷ Ἄθῳ. Ἡρόδοτος ἑβδόμῃ (c. 122). ἔστι καὶ κώμη Σκυθίας. Προῦσα πόλις μικρὰ Βιθυνίας κτίσμα Προυσίου τοῦ πρὸς Κῦρον πολεμήσαντος. Μοῦρσα πόλις Παιονίας κτίσμα Ἀδριανοῦ. λέγεται καὶ Μ…

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