Κυρήνη - Stephanos Ethnika

Κυρήνη OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Κυρήνη, πόλις Λιβύης, ἀπὸ Κυρήνης τῆς Ὑψέως [κατὰ Πίνδαρον] ἢ Κύρης πηγῆς ἐγχωρίου. ἔστι καὶ Ἰβηρίας. καὶ Μασσαλίας ἄλλη. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κυρηναῖος. ἐντεῦθεν ἦν Ἐρατοσθένης Ἀγακλέους παῖς ὁ ἱστορικός. καὶ Κυρηναΐς ὡς Θηβαΐς. καὶ Κυρηνίτης.

Kyrene: a city in Libya, either after Kyrene, the daughter of Hypseus or after the local spring Kyre. There is also a Kyrene in Iberia, and another in Massalia. The ethnonym is 'Kyrenaios'. Eratosthenes the scholar, son of Agaklees, was from there. There is also 'Kyrenais', and 'Kyrenites'.

Text Details

Entry	#288
Greek text	meineke (current) · csv_fallback
Source id	Meineke 396.17
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count	33

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἐρατοσθένης (Eratosthenes)	—

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κυρήνη	Cyrene · place · corrected · Q393261
Λιβύη	Libya · place · corrected · Q2370577
Κυρή	Kyre (eponymous spring/name) · place
Ὑψεύς	Hyps(e) (spring?) · place · corrected · Q1179038
Ἰβηρία	Iberia · place · corrected · Q1203967
Μασσαλία	Massalia (Marseille) · place · corrected · Q2566850
Κυρηναῖος	Cyrenaean (ethnic) · people
Ἀγακλῆς	Agakles · person
Κυρηναῖος	Cyrenaean (variant) · people
Θηβαῖος	Theban · people
Κυρηνίτης	Cyrenite/Cyrenian · people
Kyrene in Libya	place · city · Libya · explicit · wikidata: Q165198 · candidate
Kyrene in Iberia	place · city · Iberia · explicit · wikidata: Q393261 · candidate
Another Kyrene in Massalia	place · city · Massalia · explicit · wikidata: Q393261 · candidate

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	From Kyrene (the) Hypsous or Kyre, a local spring.
Place Transfer	There is also one in Iberia, and another in Massalia.

Links

Place links	Cyrene \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0879.jpg
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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) + X (genitive PROPER NOUN) formula:276bf314e3ad9973	Translate as "X, X" Domain: PROPER NOUNS & EPITHETS	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN)... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ARTICLE + genitive ETYMON) formula:8856d9e4780f3c74	Translate as "X... from the form 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative PROPER NOUN) ... + ἀπό + Y (genitive ETYMON) formula:7c2ffc889ab09d8d	Translate as "X... after Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (nominative) + ὡς + Y (nominative HOMOMORPH) formula:1bb0974b95264dde	Translate as "'X' as in 'Y'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive PEOPLE) formula:0a6d211492d74a05	Translate as "a X of the Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (SETTLEMENT) + Y (genitive REGION) formula:1040044f9f2bf616	Translate as "a X in Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	τὸ ἐθνικὸν + X (nominative ETHNONYM) formula:cfc8a7c494690fc3	Translate as "the ethnonym is 'X'" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Formula	ὡς + X (nominative ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:7163e35f4bd326d9	Translate as "(just) as 'Y' is from X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 2 scan rows · 2 occurrences
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἱστορικός ὁ gloss:f02a916b8e56ad5f	scholar (note Steph. doesn't use σχολαστικός) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	πηγή ἡ gloss:61e17003d8d67690	spring, source (of a river) Domain: WATER BODIES/COASTS	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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

Herodian 1.331

char LCS 57 (30.2%) · word LCS 11 (31.4%)

Stephanos

Κυρήνη, πόλις Λιβύης, ἀπὸ Κυρήνης τῆς Ὑψέως [κατὰ Πίνδαρον] ἢ Κύρης πηγῆς ἐγχωρίου. ἔστι καὶ Ἰβηρίας. καὶ Μασσαλίας ἄλλη. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κυρηναῖος. ἐντεῦθεν ἦν Ἐρατοσθένης Ἀγακλέους παῖς ὁ ἱστορικός. καὶ Κυρηναΐς ὡς Θηβαΐς. καὶ Κυρηνίτης.

Herodian

…λεγόμενος Παλλήνη. Κυλλήνη ὄρος Ἀρκαδίας, σταδίων Ὀλυμπιακῶν ἐννέα παρὰ πόδας ὀγδοήκοντα κατ´ Ἀπολλόδωρον. ἀπὸ Κυλλήνης Ναΐδος νύμφης. ἔστι καὶ Ἠλείων ἐπίνειον Κυλλήνη. Κυρήνη πόλις Λιβύης ἀπὸ Κυρήνης τῆς Ὕψεως κατὰ τὸν Πίνδαρον ἢ Κύρης πηγῆς ἐγχωρίου. ἔστι καὶ Ἰβηρίας· καὶ Μασσαλίας ἄλλη. Κυδρήνη πόλις Ἀρμενίας. Ἰσμήνη ἡρωῒς καὶ κώμη Βοιωτίας, Ἀλμήνη πόλις πρὸς τῷ Εὐξείνῳ πόντῳ ὡς Ἀρριανός. Ἀνθήνη, οὕτως Χάραξ Ἀνθάναν φησί, πόλιν Λακωνικὴν μίαν τῶν ἑκατόν. κέκληται δέ, ὡς Φιλοστέφανος, παρὰ Ἄνθην τὸν Πο…