Κύρνος - Stephanos Ethnika

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island

Entry #291
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 397.3 | Billerbeck: Κ291
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count: 34
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 60 [Εὐρώπῃ]
Entities: Κύρνος (Kyrnos) [place], Ἰαπυγία (Iapygia) [place], Εὐρώπη (Europe) [place], Κύρνιος (Kyrnioi (inhabitants of Kyrnos)) [people], Κυρναῖος (Kyrnaioi (inhabitants of Kyrnos)) [people], Σαρδόνα (Sardona) [place]
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Κύρνος, νῆσος πρόσβορρος Ἰαπυγίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κύρνιοι καὶ Κυρναῖοι. φασὶ δὲ “τοὺς Κυρναίους πολυχρονιωτάτους εἶναι (οἰκοῦσι δὲ οὗτοι περὶ τὴν Σαρδόνα) διὰ τὸ μέλιτι ἀεὶ χρῆσθαι. πλεῖστον δὲ τοῦτο γίνεται παρ´ αὐτοῖς”.

Kyrnos: an island to the north of Iapygia. Hekataios in the *Europa*. The ethnic is *Kyrnioi* and *Kyrnaioi*. They say that the Kyrnaioi are exceedingly long-lived (and these dwell around Sardōna), because they make constant use of honey; and in fact this is produced in greatest abundance among them.

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Herodian 1.175

char LCS 37 (19.5%) · word LCS 5 (14.7%)

Stephanos

Κύρνος, νῆσος πρόσβορρος Ἰαπυγίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κύρνιοι καὶ Κυρναῖοι. φασὶ δὲ “τοὺς Κυρναίους πολυχρονιωτάτους εἶναι (οἰκοῦσι δὲ οὗτοι περὶ τὴν Σαρδόνα) διὰ τὸ μέλιτι ἀεὶ χρῆσθαι. πλεῖστον δὲ τοῦτο γίνεται παρ´ αὐτοῖς”.

Herodian

…πόλις Φοινίκης ἡ καὶ Κάρνος παρ´ Ἀρτεμιδώρῳ. ἔστι καὶ νῆσος Ἀκαρνανίας. Ἀρτεμίδωρος βʹ γεωγραφουμένων, Ἄρνος ὁ καταπολεμήσας Πρωτόγονον, ἀφ´ οὗ ἡ Ξάνθος πόλις Λυκίας Ἄρνα ἐκαλεῖτο, Νάρνος ποταμός, Κύρνος ὁ κτίστης καὶ ἡ νῆσος πρόσβορρος Ἰαπυγίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Πύρνος πόλις Καρίας. Σάμορνος· ἡ Ἔφεσος οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο. Ἄορνος πόλις Βακτρίων ἀρσενικῶς καὶ θηλυκῶς. ὀξύνεται δὲ τὸ Λιβυρνός Ἀττικός τις καὶ ἔθνος προσεχὲς τῷ ἐνδοτέρῳ μέρει τοῦ Ἀδριατικοῦ κόλπου. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Ἀχαρ…