Κύθηρα - Stephanos Ethnika

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island

Κύθηρα, νῆσος πόλιν ὁμώνυμον ἔχουσα πρὸς τῇ Κρήτῃ, ἀπὸ Κυθήρου τοῦ Φοίνικος. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ Πορφύρουσα διὰ τὸ κάλλος τῶν περὶ αὐτὴν πορφυρῶν, ὡς Ἀριστοτέλης. οἱ οἰκήτορες Κυθήριοι, καὶ Κυθηρία καὶ ἡ γυνὴ καὶ ἡ νῆσος. λέγεται Κυθηραία.

Kythera: an island near Crete, having a city of the same name, named after Kytheros the Phoinikian. It used to be called Porphyrousa because of the beauty of the purple-fish around it, as per Aristotle. The inhabitants are 'Kytherioi', and 'Kytheria' denotes both the woman and the island. The form 'Kytheraia' is used.

Text Details

Entry	#255
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 391.12
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count	37
AI translation	gpt-5.5 v3 · gpt-5.5

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀριστοτέλης (Aristotle)	fr. 521 Rose = fr. 527 Gigon

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κύθηρα	Cythera (Kythera) · place · corrected · Q11855334
Κρήτη	Crete · place · corrected · Q4752820
Κυθήρος	Kytheros (eponym) · person
Φοίνικος	Phoenician / Phoinikos · people
Πορφυρούσα	Porphyrousa (the 'purple-clad') · place
Κυθήριος	Kytherians (inhabitants of Cythera) · people
Κυθηρία	Kytheria (female eponym/person) · person
Κυθηραία	Kytheraia (variant name of the island) · place
Kythera island	place · island · near Crete / Aegean · explicit · unresolved
Kythera city	place · city · on Kythera / near Crete · explicit · unresolved

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	from Kytheros the Phoenician (i.e. the island is named after Kytheros, a Phoenician).
Morphological Composition	it was called Porphyrousa because of the beauty of the purple things around it (i.e. named for purple/purple dye associated features).
Morphological Composition	the inhabitants are Kythérioi; also Kytheria applies to both the woman and the island. It is called Kytheraia (i.e. derived forms of the place-name).

Links

Place links	Kythera \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0798.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
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 DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X... + πρός + Y (dative) formula:1a524ea80fe79519	Translate as "X... near Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
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	οἰκήτωρ ὁ gloss:3810d98aa6c81247	inhabitant, resident, patron (of a brothel...? - κ123) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ὁμωνύμως/ὁμώνυμος -ον gloss:0fbae2a88778c0fa	homonymous, having the same name Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC Rule status: In progress	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 1.388

char LCS 62 (33.2%) · word LCS 12 (32.4%)

Stephanos

Κύθηρα, νῆσος πόλιν ὁμώνυμον ἔχουσα πρὸς τῇ Κρήτῃ, ἀπὸ Κυθήρου τοῦ Φοίνικος. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ Πορφύρουσα διὰ τὸ κάλλος τῶν περὶ αὐτὴν πορφυρῶν, ὡς Ἀριστοτέλης. οἱ οἰκήτορες Κυθήριοι, καὶ Κυθηρία καὶ ἡ γυνὴ καὶ ἡ νῆσος. λέγεται Κυθηραία.

Herodian

…ίδωρος δὲ Τέγεστρον αὐτὴν καὶ κώμην οἶδεν »ἀπὸ Τεγέστρου κώμης καὶ τοῦ μυχοῦ ἐπὶ τὸν Ἀδρίαν στάδια ͵εκεʹ«. Τὰ εἰς 'ρον' ὑπερδισύλλαβα μακρᾷ παραληγόμενα προπαροξύνεται, Ἄμηρον ὄνομα ὄρους, ἄνδηρον τῶν ποταμῶν τὸ χεῖλος, Κύθηρα νῆσος πόλιν ὁμώνυμον ἔχουσα πρὸς τῇ Κρήτῃ ἀπὸ Κυθήρου τοῦ Φοίνικος. Φάληρον δῆμος καὶ ἐπίνειον τῆς Ἀττικῆς. Παυσανίας πρώτῳ περιηγήσεως Ἑλλάδος (c. 1, 2). καὶ πληθυντικῶς Φάληρα. ἔστι καὶ Θετταλίας ἄλλη πρὸς τῇ Οἴτη, ἣν Ῥιανὸς διὰ τοῦ 'α' γράφει, Φάλαρον λέγων καὶ Φάληρον διὰ τοῦ 'η'. …