Κροκοδείλων πόλις

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Κροκοδείλων πόλις, πόλις ἐν τῇ Μοίριδος [τῇ] λίμνῃ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ. Ἡρόδοτος δευτέρᾳ. ἐκλήθη δὲ οὕτως· ὁ Μηνᾶς βασιλεὺς ὑπὸ τῶν ἰδίων κυνῶν διωκόμενος μεθ´ ἵππου φεύγει· καταπεσόντος δὲ τοῦ ἵππου ἐν τῇ Μοίριδος λίμνῃ, ὑπὸ κροκοδείλου ληφθῆναι καὶ ἐξενεχθῆναι εἰς τὸ πέραν, καὶ οὕτως ὀνομασθῆναι καὶ πόλιν κτίσαι καὶ καθιερώσασθαι τοὺς κροκοδείλους. ἀπεῖπέ τε μηδένα ἀποκτείνειν τὸ ζῷον ἡγεῖσθαί τε ὥσπερ θεόν. ὁ πολίτης Κροκοδειλοπολίτης.

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Text Details

Entry	#225
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 385.16 · Billerbeck Κ225
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count	65

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἡρόδοτος (Herodotus)	β (2,148,1)

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κροκοδειλόπολις	Crocodilopolis (Crocodile City) · place
Μοῖρις	Lake Moeris · place · corrected · Q32204009
Αἴγυπτος	Egypt · place · corrected · Q11768
Μηνᾶς	Menas · person · corrected · Q189574
Κροκοδειλοπολίτης	Crocodilopolitan (citizen of Crocodilopolis) · other
Κροκοδείλων πόλις	place · explicit · wikidata: Q1996721 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Folk Etymology Narrative	It was called thus: King Menas, chased by his own dogs, fled on horseback; when his horse fell into Lake Moeris he was seized by a crocodile and carried to the other side, and thus it was named.
Morphological Composition	'City of the Crocodiles' (Krokodeilon polis) — the place-name literally formed from κροκοδεῖλος 'crocodile' + πόλις 'city'.
Morphological Composition	'the citizen [is called] Krokodeilopolites' — the demonym formed from the place-name (Krokodeilon + -πολίτης).

Links

Place links	Crocodilopolis \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0702.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	"X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	κτίσμα τό gloss:fb49af0b4b56155e	foundation Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	λιμή ὁ gloss:6f81c31b2d09b3f3	lake, harbor Domain: WATER BODIES/COASTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 2 occurrences
Gloss	πολίτης ὁ gloss:1c7dda400d7265cb	citizen Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	προπερισπάω gloss:5bc4931832242610	accent with circumflex on the ultima Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence