Κρῶς

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Κρῶς OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓
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Κρῶς, πόλις Αἰγύπτου. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Ἀσίας. ὁ πολίτης Κρωίτης, καὶ νομὸς Κρωίτης. ἔστι καὶ Κρῶις Ἀράβων πόλις.

Kros: a city of Egypt. Hekataios in his Periodos of Asia. A citizen is a 'Kroites', and there is also a nome 'Kroites'. There is also Krois, a city of the Arabs.

Text Details

Entry#239
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 388.12 · Billerbeck Κ239
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-21
Word count17
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)Περιηγήσει Ἀσίας · FGrHist 1 F 315
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΚρῶςKros · place
ΚρῶςKrois (variant of Kros) · place
ΑἴγυπτοςEgypt · place
ἈσίαAsia · place
ἌραβεςArabs · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Unclear MetalinguisticKros: a city of Egypt. Hecataeus in his Periegesis of Asia (FGrHist 1 F 315).
Morphological CompositionThe inhabitant (demonym) Kroites, and the nomos (district) Kroites.
Unclear MetalinguisticThere is also Kros, a city of the Arabs.

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