Κυπάρισσος

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Κυπάρισσος, πόλις ἐν Παρνασσῷ κατὰ τοὺς Δελφούς, ἡ πρότερον Ἔραννος· Ὅμηρος “οἳ Κυπάρισσον ἔχον Πυθῶνά τε πετρήεσσαν”. ἀπὸ Κυπαρίσσου τοῦ Μινυοῦ. οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ πλήθους τῶν αὐτόθι κυπαρίσσων, ἣν Κυπαρισσοῦντά τινες καὶ Ἀπολλωνιάδα φασί. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κυπαρισσεύς.

Erannos, Kiparissos, Kyparisos, ...+4 more">Kyparissos: a city on Parnassos near Delphoi, formerly Erannos. Homer: 'who held Kyparissos and rocky Pytho'. From Kyparissos the Minyan, after whom; but others from the multitude of cypresses there, which some call Kyparissounta and Apolloniada. The ethnonym is 'Kyparisseus'.

Text Details

Entry#280
Greek textmeineke
Edition idsMeineke 395.6 · Billerbeck Κ280
OCRgemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count39
AI translationlegacy_scholarly v2 · gpt-5.2

Cited Authors

AuthorWork / Citation
Ὅμηρος (Homer)Iliad · Β 519
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Mentioned Entities

EntityDetails
ΚυπάρισσοςKyparissos · place
ΠάρνασσόςParnassus · place
ΔελφοίDelphi · place
ἜραννοςErannos · place
ΠύθωνPytho (Delphi) · place
ΜινύαςMinyas · person
ἈπολλωνιάδαApolloniada · place
ΚυπαρισσεύςKyparisseus (demonym) · people
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Etymologies

CategoryExplanation
Eponym Personfrom Kyparissos (son of Minyos).
Morphological Compositionothers [say it is named] from the abundance of the cypresses there.
Eponym Personwhich some also call Kyparissounta and Apolloniada.
Unclear Metalinguisticformerly (it was) Erannos.

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Herodian overlaps

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