Κυνόσσημα - Stephanos Ethnika

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Entry #272
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 394.11 | Billerbeck: Κ272
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count: 16
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 329 [Περιηγήσει]
Entities: Κυνόσσημα (Kynossema (Cynossema)) [place], Λιβύη (Libya) [place], Κυνοσσηματεύς ((the) Kynossema-demonym / inhabitants of Kynossema) [people]
Etymologies: 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').
Place: Cynossema
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Κυνόσσημα, τόπος Λιβύης. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει αὐτῆς. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλο χωρίον. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ἀπὸ τῆς γενικῆς Κυνοσσηματεύς.

Kynossēma: a place in Libya. Hekataios in his *Periegesis* of it. There is also another locality (of the same name). The ethnic (gentilic) is formed from the genitive: Kynossēmateus.

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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