Κυνόσαργες - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #269
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 393.24 | Billerbeck: Κ269
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count: 58
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Entities: Κυνόσαργες (Kynosarges) [place], Ἀττική (Attica) [place], Δῖoμος (Diomus) [person], Ἀθῆναι Διομέεια (Athens Diomeia (the Diomeian part of Athens)) [place], Δῖoμος (Diomus) [person], Ἡρακλῆς (Heracles) [deity], Ἡρακλῆς ἥρως (Heracles the hero) [deity], Κυνόσαργες (Kynosarges) [place], Κυνόσαργες (Kynosarges) [place], Κυνόσαργες (Kynosarges) [place]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: From Diomus — from whom the region in Athens is called Diomeia.; Folk Etymology Narrative: Kynosarges — (the story) that Diomus, sacrificing to Heracles, and a white dog seized the thighs and carried them into this place (hence the name Kynosarges).
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Κυνόσαργες, γυμνάσιον ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ καὶ δῆμος, ἀπὸ Διόμου, ἀφ´ οὗ ὁ χῶρος Ἀθήνησι Διόμεια καλεῖται. Δίομος γὰρ Ἡρακλεῖ ὡς θεῷ θύων τὰ ξενώσων ἱερὰ Ἡρακλεῖ ἥρῳ ἔδειξε, καὶ αὐτῷ κύων λευκὸς ἁρπάσας τὰ μηρία εἰς τοῦτο τὸ χωρίον ἤνεγκεν. ὁ δημότης καὶ τὸ ἐκ τόπου ἐκ Κυνοσάργους, καὶ εἰς τόπον ἐς Κυνόσαργες, καὶ ἐν τόπῳ ἐν Κυνοσάργει.

Kynosarges: a gymnasion in Attica and also a deme, named after Diomos, from whom the place at Athens is called Diomeia. For Diomos, while sacrificing to Herakles as to a god, showed the sacrificial portions (ta xenōsōn hiera) to Herakles the hero; and then a white dog snatched up the thigh-pieces and carried them to this spot. The demotic (ethnic) and the form derived from the place are ‘from Kynosarges’; and (one says) ‘to the place, to Kynosarges’, and ‘in the place, in Kynosargei’.

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Stephanos

Κυνόσαργες, γυμνάσιον ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ καὶ δῆμος, ἀπὸ Διόμου, ἀφ´ οὗ ὁ χῶρος Ἀθήνησι Διόμεια καλεῖται. Δίομος γὰρ Ἡρακλεῖ ὡς θεῷ θύων τὰ ξενώσων ἱερὰ Ἡρακλεῖ ἥρῳ ἔδειξε, καὶ αὐτῷ κύων λευκὸς ἁρπάσας τὰ μηρία εἰς τοῦτο τὸ χωρίον ἤνεγκεν. ὁ δημότης καὶ τὸ ἐκ τόπου ἐκ Κυνοσάργους, καὶ εἰς τόπον ἐς Κυνόσαργες, καὶ ἐν τόπῳ ἐν Κυνοσάργει.

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…πολὰς πρὸς ταῖς Συρακούσαις. τὸ ἔλεγχος, τὸ σκότος, τὸ τάριχος γέγονε κατὰ μεταβολὴν τοῦ γένους ἐκ τοῦ ὁ ἔλεγχος, ὁ σκότος, ὁ τάριχος. αἱ δὲ μετοχαὶ ὀξύνονται, τὸ τετυφός, πεποιηκός. Τὰ εἰς 'ες' μονογενῆ προπαροξύνεται, Κυνόσαργες γυμνάσιον ἐν τῇ Ἀττικῇ καὶ δῆμος, ἀπὸ Διόμου, ἀφ´ οὗ ὁ χῶρος Ἀθήνησι Διόμεια καλεῖται. Δίομος γὰρ Ἡρακλεῖ ὡς θεῷ θύων τὰ ξενώσων (?) ἱερὰ Ἡρακλεῖ ἥρῳ ἔδειξε καὶ αὐτῷ κύων λευκὸς ἁρπάσας τὰ μηρία εἰς τοῦτο τὸ χωρίον ἤνεγκε. ὅμαρες τὸ συμφωνοῦν, πεύκαες τὸ πικρόν, ῥώπαες τὸ ἀλσῶδες, πάνακες, δονάκαες. τὰ δὲ ἐπιθετικὰ ὀξύνεται ὥσπερ καὶ τὰ ἀρσενικά, εὐσεβές, εὐγενές. {1ΠΕΡΙ ΜΟΝΟΣΥΛΛΑΒΩΝ ΟΝΟΜΑΤΩΝ. ΒΙΒΛΙΟΝ ιδʹ.}1 Πᾶν ὄνομα μονοσύλλαβον οὐδέτε…