Κόσσυρος - Stephanos Ethnika

Κόσσυρος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

island

Κόσσυρος, νῆσος κατὰ Σελινοῦντα Σικελίας ποταμόν, καὶ πόλις ὁμώνυμος. καὶ Λιβύης νῆσος Κόσσυρα· τὸ ἐθνικὸν τῆς πρώτης Κοσσύριος, καὶ κτητικὸν Κοσσυριακός ἢ Κοσσυρῖνος, τῆς δὲ δευτέρας Κοσσυραῖος.

Kossyros: an island off the Selinous river in Sicily, and a homonymous city. There is also Kossyra, an island in Libya. The ethnonym of the first is 'Kossyrios', and the possessive is 'Kossyriakos' or 'Kossyrinos'; that of the second is 'Kossyraios'.

Text Details

Entry	#186
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 378.15 · Billerbeck Κ186
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-20
Word count	27
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κόσσυρος	Kossyros (island; also city) · place
Σελινοῦς	Selinus (river) · place · corrected · Q952173
Σικελία	Sicily · place · corrected · Q4951156
Λιβύη	Libya · place · corrected · Q2370577
Κόσσυρα	Kossyra (island) · place
Κοσσύριος	Kossyrian (demonym) · people
Κοσσυριακός	Kossyrian (possessive/demonym) · people
Κοσσυρῖνος	Kossyrinos (demonym) · people
Κοσσυραῖος	Kossyraios (demonym) · people
Κόσσυρος (Sicilian island and eponymous city)	place · island · Sicily · explicit · unresolved
Κόσσυρα (Libyan island)	place · island · Libya · explicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	“Kossyros: an island by the river Selinus of Sicily, and a city of the same name. And also an island Kossyra of Libya. The ethnicon of the first is Kossyrios, and the possessive/adjectival forms Kossyriakos or Kossyrinos, and of the second Kossyraios.”

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS 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 · 2 scan rows · 4 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 3 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	κτητικόν τό gloss:80c7f336a009c2c3	possessive Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ὁμωνύμως/ὁμώνυμος -ον gloss:0fbae2a88778c0fa	homonymous, having the same name Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC 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.

Herodian 1.200

char LCS 59 (36.4%) · word LCS 9 (33.3%)

Stephanos

Κόσσυρος, νῆσος κατὰ Σελινοῦντα Σικελίας ποταμόν, καὶ πόλις ὁμώνυμος. καὶ Λιβύης νῆσος Κόσσυρα· τὸ ἐθνικὸν τῆς πρώτης Κοσσύριος, καὶ κτητικὸν Κοσσυριακός ἢ Κοσσυρῖνος, τῆς δὲ δευτέρας Κοσσυραῖος.

Herodian

Σκυθῶν δὲ ἀκτή. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Κόσσυρος νῆσος κατὰ Σελινοῦντα Σικελίας ποταμὸν καὶ πόλις ὁμώνυμος. Κίνυρος Κουρέως πατήρ. Λάμυρος ποταμὸς Λυκίας. Λίγυρος ποταμὸς Ἰβηρίας. Λίμυρος ποταμὸς Λυκίας. Λευκόσυρος ποταμὸς Κιλικίας ὁ ὕστερον Πύραμος. λέγονται καὶ Σύροι ἔθνος Λευκόσυροι. Στράβων ἑκκαιδεκάτῃ «δοκεῖ δὲ ἀπὸ Βαβυλων…