Κρητινία - Stephanos Ethnika

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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 on Rhodes, in which the followers of Althaimenes lived. He received an oracle that he would kill his father and fled; and when by night he encountered people coming by ship on Rhodes, he supposed them to be pirates and killed his father. Above it are the Atabyria mountains, from which comes 'Zeus Atabyrios'.

Text Details

Entry	#218
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 384.13
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count	40
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κρητινία	Kritinia (Kretinia) · place
Ῥόδος	Rhodes · place · corrected · Q13533316
Ῥόδος	Rhodes · place · corrected · Q13533316
Ἀλθαιμένης	Althaemenes · person · corrected · Q440422
Ἀταβύρια	Atabyrian Mountains (Atabyria) · place · corrected · Q757912
Ζεύς	Zeus · deity · corrected · Q34201
Ἀταβύριος	(epithet) Atabyrius · deity · corrected · Q5710243

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
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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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	[NO ANTECEDENT] + ἀφ' οὗ + Y (DERIVED NOUN) formula:85dbc02f91e20d41	Translate as "as per 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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	Y (EPITHET) + X (DEITY) formula:e59d8efd6da15c82	Translate as "X Y" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐν Ῥόδῳ gloss:f2adc7e96d46148c	on Rhodes Domain: MEASUREMENT & SPACE Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ὄρος ὁ gloss:184051ff413f789d	mountain, mount (X ὄρος = 'Mount X') Domain: TERRAIN/LANDMASSES	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.

No significant Herodian overlaps were found for this headword in the latest run.