Κρῆσσα - Stephanos Ethnika

Κρῆσσα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Κρῆσσα, πόλις Παφλαγονίας, ἣν Μηριόνης μετὰ Τροίαν ἔκτισε, Ζηίλας δὲ εἷλεν ὁ Νικομήδους υἱός. Δημοσθένης γράφει ... τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κρησσαῖος.

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Text Details

Entry	#214
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 383.11 · Billerbeck Κ214
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count	19

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Δημοσθένης (Demosthenes)	FGrHist 699 F 15 = fr. 10 Powell

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κρῆσσα	Kressa · place · corrected · Q198293
Παφλαγονία	Paphlagonia · place · corrected · Q622032
Μηριόνης	Meriones · person · corrected · Q367819
Τροία	Troy · place · corrected · Q22647
Ζηῖλας	Zeilas · person
Νικομήδης	Nicomedes · person · corrected · Q343604
Κρησσαῖος	Kressaios (demonym) · people
Κρῆσσα	place · explicit · wikidata: Q6436822 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	which Meriones built after (the fall of) Troy

Links

Place links	Kressa \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0645.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 · 1 occurrence
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 · 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

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.267

char LCS 62 (56.4%) · word LCS 11 (57.9%)

Stephanos

Κρῆσσα, πόλις Παφλαγονίας, ἣν Μηριόνης μετὰ Τροίαν ἔκτισε, Ζηίλας δὲ εἷλεν ὁ Νικομήδους υἱός. Δημοσθένης γράφει ... τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κρησσαῖος.

Herodian

Μηριόνης μετὰ Τροίαν ἔκτισε, Ζηΐλας δὲ εἷλεν ὁ Νικομήδους υἱός. Δημοσθένης. Ἴσσα πόλις ἐν Λέσβῳ ἀπὸ Ἴσσης τῆς Μάκαρος, ἔστι καὶ νῆσος πόλιν ὁμώνυμον ἔχουσα κατὰ Δαλματίαν καὶ Ἰλλυρίαν. Τίσσα χωρίον Σικελίας. Φίλιστος ἐνάτῳ. κίσσα, λύσσα, ὄσσα, κρόσσα· ἔστι καὶ πόλις πρὸς τῷ Πόντῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσί…