Κυκνῖτις - Stephanos Ethnika

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Κυκνῖτις, .... ἧς ὁ Κύκνος ἐβασίλευσε. Σοφοκλῆς ἐν Πηλεῖ. καὶ ἐν Ποιμέσι “βοὴν κυκνῖτιν”.

Kyknitis: where Kyknos was king. Sophokles in Peleus. Also in Poimenes: ‘the Kyknitian shout’.

Text Details

Entry	#258
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 392.5 · Billerbeck Κ258
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count	13
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Σοφοκλῆς (Sophocles)	Πηλεῖ · fr. 495 Radt
Σοφοκλῆς (Sophocles)	Ποιμέσι · fr. 499 Radt
Πηλεῖ (Pēlei (work title; probably 'Peleus'))	Πηλεῖ · fr. 495 Radt
Ποιμήσ(ι) / Ποιμένες (title) (Poimési (Shepherds))	Ποιμέσι · fr. 499 Radt

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κυκνῖτις	Kyknītis (Kyknitis) · place
Κύκνος	Cycnus · person

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	'Kyknitis' — of which (i.e., the place) Cycnus was king / where Cycnus reigned.

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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.105

char LCS 66 (100.0%) · word LCS 13 (100.0%)

Stephanos

Κυκνῖτις, .... ἧς ὁ Κύκνος ἐβασίλευσε. Σοφοκλῆς ἐν Πηλεῖ. καὶ ἐν Ποιμέσι “βοὴν κυκνῖτιν”.

Herodian

… τοῦ ἀγυιέως ἀγυιάτιδες θεραπεῖαι λέγονται, Αὐσονῖτις Λυκόφρων (v. 44) «ὁ τῆς θαλάσσης Αὐσονίτιδος μυχούς». Αἰανῖτις διὰ διφθόγγου. Σοφοκλῆς δὲ Ἀανῖτιν γράφει δίχα τοῦ 'ι'. Ζεφυρῖτις Ἀφροδίτη καὶ Ἀρσινόη, ὡς Καλλίμαχος. Κυκνῖτις ἧς ὁ Κύκνος ἐβασίλευσε. Σοφοκλῆς ἐν Πηλεῖ. καὶ ἐν Ποιμέσι «βοὴν κυκνῖτιν». Ἀσκαλωνῖτις, Ναρβωνῖτις, Καρκινῖτις, πόλις Σκυθική, Λυχνῖτις Ἀρμενίας χώρα. Μενελαῖτις χώρα Αἰγύπτου, Ποταμῖτις γυνὴ Βήλου ἣ καὶ Ἀερία· οὕτω δ´ ἐκλήθη καὶ ἡ Αἴγυπτος. Πιτανῖτις χώρα καὶ νύμφη. Πορφυρῖτις πόλις Ἀραβίας…