Κύνθος - Stephanos Ethnika

Κύνθος OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Κύνθος, [ὄρος Δήλου,] παρ´ Ἀντιμάχῳ ἐν πρώτῃ Θηβαΐδος. ὁ οἰκήτωρ Κύνθιος καὶ θηλυκῶς καὶ οὐδετέρως. καὶ Κυνθιώτης καὶ Κυνθιῶτις θηλυκῶς.

Translation pending

Text Details

Entry	#266
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 393.15 · Billerbeck Κ266
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count	18
Translation status	Meineke restores an explicit reading '[ὄρος Δήλου,]' in place of an OCR lacuna in Billerbeck and expands an abbreviated/letter numeral 'ᾱ' to the spelled-out ordinal 'πρώτῃ'. Remaining differences are punctuation/diacritic (· vs ,; apostrophe form).

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀντίμαχος (Antimachus)	Θηβαΐς · fr. 12 Matthews = fr. 12 Wyss
Θηβαΐς (Thebaid)	fr. 12 Matthews = fr. 12 Wyss
Matthews (Matthews (editor))	fr. 12 Matthews
Wyss (Wyss (editor))	fr. 12 Wyss

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κύνθος	Kynthos · place
Κύνθιος	Kynthios (male inhabitant of Kynthos) · person
Κυνθιώτης	Kynthiotēs (male/fellow inhabitant of Kynthos) · person
Κυνθιώτις	Kynthiotis (female inhabitant of Kynthos) · person

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	'the inhabitant Κύνθιος (also in feminine and neuter). And Κυνθιώτης and Κυνθιώτις (feminine).' — forms of the ethnic/demonym for Κύνθος, i.e. names for its inhabitants.

Links

Place links	Cynthus \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0836.jpg
Review	Open review page

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.145

char LCS 42 (38.5%) · word LCS 8 (40.0%)

Stephanos

Κύνθος, [ὄρος Δήλου,] παρ´ Ἀντιμάχῳ ἐν πρώτῃ Θηβαΐδος. ὁ οἰκήτωρ Κύνθιος καὶ θηλυκῶς καὶ οὐδετέρως. καὶ Κυνθιώτης καὶ Κυνθιῶτις θηλυκῶς.

Herodian

γρόνθος τὸ ἐπὶ τῆς αὐλήσεως, σμίνθος ὁ μῦς. Πάρθος ἔθνος Σκυθικὸν οἱ καὶ Πάρθιοι καὶ Παρθυαῖοι. ἔστι δὲ καὶ Πάρθος πόλις Ἰλλυρική. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν χρονικῶν..... Κύνθος ὄρος Δήλου, παρ´ Ἀντιμάχῳ ἐν πρώτῃ Θηβαΐδος. οὕτως δὲ ἐκαλεῖτο καὶ Δῆλος ἀπὸ Κύνθου τοῦ Ὠκεανοῦ. Ξάνθος ἔθνος Θρᾴκιον. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Λυκίας. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ «παρ´ ᾗ Ξάνθος ἐξίησι ποταμός». ἐκλήθη δὲ ἀπὸ Ξάνθου Αἰγυπτίου ἢ Κρητὸς οἰκιστοῦ. ἔστι καὶ Ξά…