Κούριον - Stephanos Ethnika

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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 in Cyprus, after Koureus the son of Kinyras. Herodotus, book 5. The ethnonym is 'Kourieus'. Aristokles too was a 'Kourieus'. In the feminine 'Kourias', also the territory. There is also a city in Aitolia.

Text Details

Entry	#195
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 380.4 · Billerbeck Κ195
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count	27
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἡρόδοτος (Herodotus)	(5,113,1)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κούριον	Kourion · place · corrected · Q878246
Κύπρος	Cyprus · place · corrected · Q644636
Κουρεύς	Koureus · person
Κίνυρος	Kinyros · person
Κουριεύς	Kourieus (ethnic) · people
Ἀριστοκλῆς	Aristocles · person
Κουριάς	Kourias · place
Αἰτωλία	Aetolia · place · corrected · Q26857
Κούριον	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1785592 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from Koureos, son of Kinyros

Links

Place links	Kourion \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0603.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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	καί + X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + Y (nominative PROPER NOUN) formula:0af867b3dd6df580	Translate as "Y is also 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 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 · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym 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 1.358

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…