Κράμβουτις - Stephanos Ethnika

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Κράμβουτις, πόλις Αἰγύπτου. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. ὁ πολίτης Κραμβουτίτης ὡς Ναυκρατίτης. Ἡρωδιανὸς διὰ τοῦ « ο » γράφει Κράμβοτις προπαροξυτόνως, ὡς Ἄβοτις.

Abotis, Cramboutis, Krambotis, Kramboutites, Kramboutys, ...+2 more">Kramboutis: a city in Egypt. Hekataios in his Description of Libya. A citizen is a 'Kramboutites' (as in 'Naukratites'). Herodian writes 'Krambotis' with ο, with the accent on the antepenult, (as in 'Abotis').

Text Details

Entry	#202
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 380.25 · Billerbeck Κ202
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count	20
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Περιηγήσει Λιβύης · FGrHist 1 F 314
Ἡρωδιανός (Herodian (Herodianus))	(1,103,24)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κράμβουτις	Kramboutis · place
Αἴγυπτος	Egypt · place · corrected · Q11768
Κραμβουτίτης	Kramboutite (citizen of Kramboutis) · other
Ναυκρατίτης	Naucratite (citizen of Naucratis) · other
Κράμβουτις	Kramboutis (variant) · place
Ἄβωτις	Abotis · place

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The (male) citizen (demonym) Κραμβουτίτης is formed (or used) like Ναυκρατίτης (i.e. by analogy to the demonym Ναυκρατίτης).
Unclear Metalinguistic	Herodian writes Κράμβοτις with a proparoxytone accent (accented on the antepenult), like Ἄβοτις.

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative AUTHOR NAME)... + ὡς αὐτός formula:4caae33810f40dfa	Translate as "X... as per X." Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 4 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 · 2 scan rows · 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	διὰ τοῦ + «X» (GREEK LETTER) + [FORM OF γράφειν] formula:93bec21ca1d8a38f	Translate as "writes/write/wrote/is written with X" Domain: SPELLING & PROSODY Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 4 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:f22af8012162d222	*Translate as 'as per X, in book Y of his Z'* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (definite ARTICLE + ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:bcd70ae781e7b205	Translate as "just as 'Y' is from the name X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 4 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 4 occurrences
Gloss	πολίτης ὁ gloss:1c7dda400d7265cb	citizen Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	προπαροξύνω gloss:73cd528e5d0d8546	accent with acute on the antepenult Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	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 1.103

char LCS 40 (30.1%) · word LCS 5 (25.0%)

Stephanos

Κράμβουτις, πόλις Αἰγύπτου. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. ὁ πολίτης Κραμβουτίτης ὡς Ναυκρατίτης. Ἡρωδιανὸς διὰ τοῦ « ο » γράφει Κράμβοτις προπαροξυτόνως, ὡς Ἄβοτις.

Herodian

…ληγόμενα βαρύνεται, Κάλλατις πολίχνιον ἐν τῇ παραλίᾳ τοῦ Πόντου. Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ· ὡς κάλαθος εὑρέθη ἐοικὼς τοῖς θεσμοφοριακοῖς. Ναύκρατις πόλις Αἰγύπτου ἀπὸ Μιλησίων τότε θαλασσοκρατούντων ὡς Στράβων ἑπτακαιδεκάτῃ. Ὀνείβατις πόλις Αἰγύπτου Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. Ἰαγξούατις πόλις Λιβύων. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Ἄβοτις πόλις Αἰγύπτου, ὡς Ἑκαταῖος. Κράμβοτις πόλις Αἰγύπτου, ἣν Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης Κράμβουτίν φησιν. Τὰ εἰς 'τις' πρὸ τοῦ 'τις' 'υ' ἔχοντα, σπάνια ὄντα, τὰ μὲν βαρύνεται…