Κρόσσα - Stephanos Ethnika

Κρόσσα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Entry #229
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: - | Billerbeck: Κ229
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count: 14
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 213 [Ἀσίᾳ]
Entities: Κρόσσα (Krossa) [place], Πόντος (Pontus (the Black Sea)) [place], Ἀσία (Asia) [place], Κροσσαῖος (Krossaios (ethnic name)) [people]
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Κρόσσα, πόλις πρὸς τῷ Πόντῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κροσσαῖος [καὶ] θηλυκῶς καὶ οὐδετέρως.

Krossa: a city on the Pontos. Hekataios, in his *Asia*. The ethnic name is **Krossaios**, also in the feminine and in the neuter.

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.267

char LCS 28 (37.8%) · word LCS 6 (42.9%)

Stephanos

Κρόσσα, πόλις πρὸς τῷ Πόντῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κροσσαῖος [καὶ] θηλυκῶς καὶ οὐδετέρως.

Herodian

…λεν 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 Ἀσίᾳ. Κόσσα πόλις Οἰνωτρῶν ἐν τῷ μεσογείῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Πάσσα πόλις Θρᾴκης. Ἄσσα πόλις πρὸς τῷ Ἄθῳ. Ἡρόδοτος ἑβδόμῃ (c. 122). ἔστι καὶ κώμη Σκυθίας. Προῦσα πόλις μικρὰ Βιθυνίας κτίσμα Προυσίου τοῦ πρὸς Κῦρον πολεμήσαντος…