Κρότων - Stephanos Ethnika

Κρότων OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Κρότων, πόλις Ἰταλίας εὔσημος παρὰ τὸ Ῥήγιον. βαρύνεται δὲ ὅτε τὸ ὄρος σημαίνει ὅθεν ὁ Αἴσαρος ῥεῖ ποταμός, τὸ μέντοι ἐπὶ τοῦ φθαρτικοῦ τῶν κυνῶν ὀξύνεται. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα πόλις, Τυρρηνίας μητρόπολις. καὶ τρίτη Ἰταλίας. οἱ πολῖται Κροτωνιᾶται καὶ θηλυκῶς Κροτωνιᾶτις, καὶ Κροτώνιος καὶ Κροτωνία καὶ Κροτωνιάτης καὶ Κροτωνιάς.

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Text Details

Entry	#231
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 386.20 · Billerbeck Κ231
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count	52

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κρότων	Croton · place · corrected · Q13526919
Ἰταλία	Italy · place
Ῥήγιον	Rhegion (Reggio) · place · corrected · Q3429952
Αἴσαρος	Aisaros (river) · place
Τυρρηνία	Tyrrhenia (Etruria) · place · corrected · Q206730
Κροτωνιᾶται	Crotonians (male citizens) · people
Κροτωνιᾶτις	Crotoniate (female citizen) · people
Κροτώνιος	Crotonian (inhabitant/adjective) · people
Κροτωνία	Crotonia (female form/demonym) · people
Κροτωνιάς	Crotonias (alternate demonym) · people
Kroton (city in Italy near Rhegion)	place · city · Italy near Rhegion · explicit · wikidata: Q3698712 · candidate
Kroton (mountain by the Aisaros)	place · mountain · location of the Aisaros river (Italy, unspecified locality) · explicit · wikidata: Q3698712 · candidate
Another city, metropolis of Tyrrhenia	place · city · Tyrrhenia · implicit · wikidata: Q3698712 · candidate
Third city of Italy	place · city · Italy · implicit · wikidata: Q6681 · candidate

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	And it is (also) used/says when it denotes the city or the mountain.
Unclear Metalinguistic	From which the river Aēsaros flows.
Folk Etymology Narrative	But indeed the name is 'sharpened' (interpreted/intensified) with respect to the destructive/biting of the dogs.

Links

Place links	Kroton \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0721.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + παρά + τό + Y (ETYMON) formula:e1b19e84652cc7be	Translate as "X is deriving/derives from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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 · 3 occurrences
Gloss	μητρόπολις ἡ gloss:4b7494b2aa08d8f1	metropolis Domain: SETTLEMENTS/STRUCTURES 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
Gloss	προπαροξύνω gloss:73cd528e5d0d8546	accent with acute on the antepenult Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	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.

Herodian 1.36

char LCS 36 (13.5%) · word LCS 8 (16.3%)

Stephanos

Κρότων, πόλις Ἰταλίας εὔσημος παρὰ τὸ Ῥήγιον. βαρύνεται δὲ ὅτε τὸ ὄρος σημαίνει ὅθεν ὁ Αἴσαρος ῥεῖ ποταμός, τὸ μέντοι ἐπὶ τοῦ φθαρτικοῦ τῶν κυνῶν ὀξύνεται. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα πόλις, Τυρρηνίας μητρόπολις. καὶ τρίτη Ἰταλίας. οἱ πολῖται Κροτωνιᾶται καὶ θηλυκῶς Κροτωνιᾶτις, καὶ Κροτώνιος καὶ Κροτωνία καὶ Κροτωνιάτης καὶ Κροτωνιάς.

Herodian

…ος καὶ Μυτιλήνης καὶ ὁ Μυτιληναῖος, Μέτων, γείτων, τέκτων, Σπάρτων ὁ Φορωνέως, Βάτων ὁ Ἀμφιαράου ἡνίοχος. τὸ δὲ Κρότων, ὅτε τὸν κτιστὴν ἢ τὴν πόλιν—ἔστι δὲ Ἰταλίας εὔσημος παρὰ τὸ Ῥήγιον καὶ ἑτέρα Τυρρηνίας μητρόπολις—ἢ τὸ ὄρος σημαίνει, ὅθεν ὁ Αἴσαρος ῥεῖ ποταμός, βαρύνεται, τὸ μέντοι ἐπὶ τοῦ φθαρτικοῦ τῶν κυνῶν (Β 738) ὀξύνεται. καὶ τὸ χιτών τὸ ἱμάτιον ὀξύνεται πρὸς ἀντιδιαστολὴν τοῦ κυρίου καὶ ποταμοῦ. τὸ Ἀρίστων, Ἑκάτων, Χαρίτων, Μελίτων, ἀχίτων, χαλκοχίτων, ἀρχιτέκτων βαρύνο…