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Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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mountain
Entry #199
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 380.16 | Billerbeck: Κ199
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count: 39
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἀλέξανδρος (Alexander (of the Lycians)) FGrHist 273 F 58
Entities: Κράγος (Cragos) [place], Λυκία (Lycia) [place], Λύκιοι (Lycians) [people], Τρεμίλης (Tremiles) [person], Πραξιδίκη (Praxidike) [deity], Κράγιος (Cragian (ethnic)) [other], Ἀντίκραγος (Anticragus) [place]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: From Kragos, son of Tremiles, his mother being the nymph Praxidike.; Morphological Composition: The ethnicon (demonym) is 'Kragios'.; Morphological Composition: There is also another mountain, Antikragos.
Place: Cragus
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Κράγος, ὄρος Λυκίας. Ἀλέξανδρος δευτέρῳ Λυκιακῶν. ἀπὸ Κράγου τοῦ Τρεμίλητος υἱοῦ, μητρὸς δὲ Πραξιδίκης νύμφης. ἐνταῦθα δ´ εἶναι καὶ τὰ ἐπονομαζόμενα θεῶν ἀγρίων ἄντρα. ἀπαθανατισθῆναι γάρ φασι τοὺς περὶ τὸν Κράγον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κράγιος. ἔστι καὶ ὄρος Ἀντίκραγος ἕτερον.
Cragos: a mountain of Lycia. (So) Alexander, book 2 of the Lyciaca. It is named from Cragos, son of Tremilas, whose mother was the nymph Praxidike. Here too are the caves so called of the ‘wild gods’. For they say that those about Cragos were made immortal. The ethnic (gentilic) is Kragios. There is also another mountain, Anticragos.

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Herodian 1.140
char LCS 91 (41.6%) · word LCS 15 (38.5%)
Stephanos
Κράγος, ὄρος Λυκίας. Ἀλέξανδρος δευτέρῳ Λυκιακῶν. ἀπὸ Κράγου τοῦ Τρεμίλητος υἱοῦ, μητρὸς δὲ Πραξιδίκης νύμφης. ἐνταῦθα δ´ εἶναι καὶ τὰ ἐπονομαζόμενα θεῶν ἀγρίων ἄντρα. ἀπαθανατισθῆναι γάρ φασι τοὺς περὶ τὸν Κράγον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κράγιος. ἔστι καὶ ὄρος Ἀντίκραγος ἕτερον.
Herodian
…μάργος οὐδὲν ἀγαθὸν ἐργάζεται. Τὰ εἰς 'ογος' διβράχεα βαρύνεται, λόγος, μόγος, ψόγος. Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'αγος' διβράχεα ἐπιθετικὰ καὶ μὴ ἐθνικὰ ὀξύνεται, φαγός, κραγός ὁ κραυγαστικός. τὸ δὲ κράγος ὁ κραυγασμὸς βαρύνεται καὶ τὸ Κράγος ὄρος Λυκίας. Ἀλέξανδρος δευτέρῳ Λυκιακῶν. ἀπὸ Κράγου τοῦ Τρεμίλητος υἱοῦ, μητρὸς δὲ Πραξιδίκης νύμφης. καὶ τὸ Μάγος ἐθνικόν. εἰσὶ δὲ Μάγοι ἔθνος περὶ Μηδίαν. * Τὰ εἰς 'γος' δισύλλαβα εἰ ἔχοι πρὸ τέλους δίχρονον συνεσταλμένον, κύρια ἢ προσηγορικὰ ὄντα βαρύνεται οἷον κράγος, πάγος, τράγος, χωρὶς εἰ μὴ μεταπλάσσοιτο εἰς γέ…

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