Κρητινία

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Entry #218
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 384.13 | Billerbeck: Κ218
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count: 40
AI prompt: v1
Entities: Κρητινία (Kritinia (Kretinia)) [place], Ῥόδος (Rhodes) [place], Ῥόδος (Rhodes) [place], Ἀλθαιμένης (Althaemenes) [person], Ἀταβύρια (Atabyrian Mountains (Atabyria)) [place], Ζεύς (Zeus) [deity], Ἀταβύριος ((epithet) Atabyrius) [deity]
Etymologies: Folk Etymology Narrative: ‘the people around (named after) Althaemenes’ — Althaemenes, having been told that he would kill his father, fled, and by night by ship reached Rhodes, and, thinking [him] robbers, killed his father (mythic narrative explaining the name).; Place Transfer: ‘above it are the Atabyrian mountains, from which Zeus is called Atabyrios’ — the epithet Ζεὺς Ἀταβύριος is derived from the place-name (the mountains).
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Κρητινία, τόπος Ῥόδου, ἐν ᾧ ᾤκουν οἱ περὶ Ἀλθαιμένην, ὃς χρησθεὶς ὅτι τὸν πατέρα ἀποκτενεῖ ἔφυγε, καὶ νυκτὶ πλοίῳ συναντᾷ ἐν Ῥόδῳ, καὶ ὡς λῃστὰς νομίσας ἀναιρεῖ τὸν πατέρα. εἰσὶ δὲ ὑπὲρ αὐτοῦ τὰ Ἀταβύρια ὄρη, ἀφ´ ὧν Ζεὺς Ἀταβύριος.

Kretinia: a place of Rhodes, in which dwelt the people about Althaemenes—he who, having received an oracle that he would kill his father, fled; and by night, encountering him by ship off Rhodes, and supposing them to be pirates, he slays his father. Above it are the Atabyria mountains, from which (comes) Zeus Atabyrios.

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