Κροκοδείλων πόλις

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city

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.

Krokodeilon polis: a city in Lake Moiris in Egypt. Herodotus, book 2. It was called this as follows: King Menas, being pursued by his own dogs, flees on horseback; when the horse fell in Lake Moiris, he was seized by a crocodile and carried to the far side, and so the place was named, and he founded a city and consecrated the crocodiles. He also forbade anyone to kill the animal and ordered them to regard it as a god. A citizen is a 'Krokodeilopolites'.

Text Details

Entry	#225
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 385.16
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count	65
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

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
Krokodeilon polis in Egypt	place · explicit · unresolved
Lake Moiris	place · explicit · unresolved

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 (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:5e7f1861601f28d1	*Translate as "X, book Y in his Z"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (dative NUMBER) + Z (genitive BOOK NAME) formula:f22af8012162d222	*Translate as 'as per X, in book Y of his Z'* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	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

Herodian overlaps

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