Κοχλίουσα - Stephanos Ethnika

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island

Entry #197
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 380.10 | Billerbeck: Κ197
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count: 18
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἀλέξανδρος (Alexander) FGrHist 273 F 57 [Περὶ Λυκίας]
Entities: Κοχλίουσα (Kochliousa) [place], Λυκία (Lycia) [place], Κοχλιούσιος (Kochliousios (demonym of Kochliousa)) [people]
Etymologies: Morphological Composition: because 'kochlioi' (shells/snails) are found in it.
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Κοχλίουσα, νῆσος πρὸς τῇ Λυκίᾳ. Ἀλέξανδρος δευτέρῳ περὶ Λυκίας, διὰ τὸ κοχλοὺς ἐν αὐτῇ εὑρίσκεσθαι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κοχλιούσιος.

Kochliousa: an island off Lycia. Alexander, in book 2 of On Lycia, [says it is so called] because snails are found on it. The ethnic adjective is Kochliousios.

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Herodian 1.269

char LCS 81 (80.2%) · word LCS 15 (83.3%)

Stephanos

Κοχλίουσα, νῆσος πρὸς τῇ Λυκίᾳ. Ἀλέξανδρος δευτέρῳ περὶ Λυκίας, διὰ τὸ κοχλοὺς ἐν αὐτῇ εὑρίσκεσθαι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κοχλιούσιος.

Herodian

…ώζουσαι πόλεις τρεῖς Φοινίκης Πισιδίας καὶ Αἰθιοπίας. Μύρτουσα ὄρος Λιβύης. Καλάθουσα πόλις τοῦ Πόντου καὶ πόλις οὐ πόρρω τῶν Ἡρακλείων στηλῶν, Ἑκαταῖος δὲ Εὐρώπῃ Καλάθην αὐτὴν καλεῖ. Οἴνουσα· οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο ἡ Καρχηδών. Κοχλίουσα νῆσος πρὸς τῇ Λυκίᾳ. Ἀλέξανδρος δευτέρῳ περὶ Λυκίας διὰ τὸ κοχλοὺς ἐν αὐτῇ εὑρίσκεσθαι. Κράμβουσα νῆσος περὶ Σελεύκειαν τῆς Ἰσαυρίας. Στράβων ιδʹ. Πιτύουσα ἡ ὕστερον Φάσηλις. οὕτως καὶ ἡ Λάμψακος πάλαι ἐκαλεῖτο, ὡς Δηΐοχος ὁ Κυζικηνός. Κρομύουσα νῆσος Ἰβηρίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Πολυπόδουσα νῆσος τῆς Κνιδία…