Κούριον - Stephanos Ethnika

Κούριον OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Entry #195
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 380.4 | Billerbeck: Κ195
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count: 27
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἡρόδοτος (Herodotus) (5,113,1)
Entities: Κούριον (Kourion) [place], Κύπρος (Cyprus) [place], Κουρεύς (Koureus) [person], Κίνυρος (Kinyros) [person], Κουριεύς (Kourieus (ethnic)) [people], Ἀριστοκλῆς (Aristocles) [person], Κουριάς (Kourias) [place], Αἰτωλία (Aetolia) [place]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: from Koureos, son of Kinyros
Place: Kourio Episkopi
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Κούριον, πόλις Κύπρου, ἀπὸ Κουρέως τοῦ Κινύρου παιδός. Ἡρόδοτος πέμπτῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κουριεύς. καὶ Ἀριστοκλῆς Κουριεὺς ἦν. τὸ θηλυκὸν Κουριάς, καὶ ἡ χώρα. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Αἰτωλίας.

Kourion: a city of Cyprus, named after Koureus, son of Kinyras. Herodotus, Book 5. The ethnic (gentilic) is Kourieus; and Aristoklēs was a Kourieus. The feminine is Kourias, and likewise the territory. There is also a city of Aitolia.

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Herodian 1.358

char LCS 58 (40.8%) · word LCS 10 (37.0%)

Stephanos

Κούριον, πόλις Κύπρου, ἀπὸ Κουρέως τοῦ Κινύρου παιδός. Ἡρόδοτος πέμπτῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κουριεύς. καὶ Ἀριστοκλῆς Κουριεὺς ἦν. τὸ θηλυκὸν Κουριάς, καὶ ἡ χώρα. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Αἰτωλίας.

Herodian

…Ῥήγιον πόλις Ἑλληνίς. Ἴσθμιον. Ῥύτιον πόλις Κρήτης (Il. Β 648), ὅπερ Τυραννίων οὐκ εὖ παροξύνει ὡς πεδίον· οὔτε γὰρ ὑποκοριστικόν, οὔτε εἰ ἦν ὑποκοριστικόν, παρωξύνετο, καθότι τρίβραχυ. Θρόνιον, Σπήλιον. Ὄβριον τὸ ὄρος. Κούριον πόλις Κύπρου ἀπὸ Κουρέως τοῦ Κινύρου παιδός. Ἡρόδοτος πέμπτῃ (c. 113). ἔστι καὶ πόλις Αἰτωλίας. Χώριον ἡ πόλις, ἐπὶ γὰρ ὑποκοριστικοῦ παροξύνεται. Δαύνιον πόλις Ἰταλίας. Λυκόφρων (v. 1254) «ὑπὲρ Λακίου Δαυνίου τ´ ᾠκισμένην». Οἴνιον. Σέστιον πόλις ἐν μεσογείᾳ Οἰνωτρῶν. Αἴγιον πόλι…