Κρῆσσα - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #214
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 383.11 | Billerbeck: Κ214
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count: 19
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Δημοσθένης (Demosthenes) FGrHist 699 F 15 = fr. 10 Powell
Entities: Κρῆσσα (Kressa) [place], Παφλαγονία (Paphlagonia) [place], Μηριόνης (Meriones) [person], Τροία (Troy) [place], Ζηῖλας (Zeilas) [person], Νικομήδης (Nicomedes) [person], Κρησσαῖος (Kressaios (demonym)) [people]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: which Meriones built after (the fall of) Troy
Place: Kressa | 📍 Map
Source: e9783110219630_i0645.jpg
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Κρῆσσα, πόλις Παφλαγονίας, ἣν Μηριόνης μετὰ Τροίαν ἔκτισε, Ζηίλας δὲ εἷλεν ὁ Νικομήδους υἱός. Δημοσθένης γράφει ... τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κρησσαῖος.

Krēssa: a city of Paphlagonia, which Meriones founded after the Trojan War; but Zeilas, the son of Nicomedes, captured it. Demosthenes [states that] the ethnic is Krēssaios (“Krēssan”).

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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…