Κυνόσσημα - Stephanos Ethnika

Κυνόσσημα OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Κυνόσσημα, τόπος Λιβύης. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει αὐτῆς. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλο χωρίον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ἀπὸ τῆς γενικῆς Κυνοσσηματεύς.

Kynossema: a place in Libya. Hekataios in his Periodos of it. There is also another district. The ethnonym, from the genitive, is 'Kynossemateus'.

Text Details

Entry	#272
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 394.11 · Billerbeck Κ272
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count	16
AI translation	legacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus)	Περιηγήσει · FGrHist 1 F 329

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κυνόσσημα	Kynossema (Cynossema) · place
Λιβύη	Libya · place
Κυνοσσηματεύς	(the) Kynossema-demonym / inhabitants of Kynossema · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) is derived from the general form Κυνοσσηματεύς (i.e. the name is formed from the place-name 'Kynos(s)sema').

Links

Place links	Cynossema \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0844.jpg
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Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.352

char LCS 60 (63.2%) · word LCS 10 (62.5%)

Stephanos

Κυνόσσημα, τόπος Λιβύης. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει αὐτῆς. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλο χωρίον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ἀπὸ τῆς γενικῆς Κυνοσσηματεύς.

Herodian

… φασι μετὰ τοῦ ἅρματος καὶ οὐκ ἐκδοθῆναι τοῖς διώκουσιν ὑπὸ τῶν κατοικούντων. ἔστι καὶ τῆς Ἀττικῆς Ἅρμα ἐν Πάρνηθι περὶ τὴν Φυλὴν καλουμένην. ἔστι καὶ Ἅρματα πόλις πληθυντικῶς Ἰνδικῆς—αἷμα, βῆμα, ῥῆμα, χρῆμα, σῆμα, ὅθεν Κυνόσσημα τόπος Λιβύης. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει αὐτῆς. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλο χωρίον. λῦμα καὶ φῦμα καὶ θῦμα παρ´ Ἀττικοῖς τὸ 'υ' ἐκτείνουσιν, ζεῦγμα καὶ Ζεῦγμα πόλις Συρίας