Κύρου πόλις - Stephanos Ethnika

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city

Κύρου πόλις, ἣ καὶ Κυρέσχατα καλεῖται, πόλις πρὸς τοῖς ἐσχάτοις Περσίδος. ὁ πολίτης καθ´ ἡμᾶς Κυροπολίτης, κατὰ δὲ Πέρσας Κυρεσχατηνοί ὡς Ἀραξηνοί καὶ Καμβυσηνοί.

Kyrou polis, also called 'Kyreschata': a city at the farthest limits of Persia. A citizen, for us, is a 'Kyropolites', but among the Persians they are 'Kyreschathenoi'.

Text Details

Entry	#292
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 397.8 · Billerbeck Κ292
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count	24

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κῦρος	Cyrus · person
Κυρέσχατα	Kyreschata (place name) · place
Περσίς/Περσία	Persis/Persia · place
Κυροπολίτης	Kyropolitēs (citizen of Kyros) · people
Πέρσες	Persians · people
Κυρεσχατηνοί	Kyreschatheni (inhabitants of Kyreschata) · people
Ἀραξηνοί	Araxeni (inhabitants associated with the Araxes) · people
Καμβυσηνοί	Kambyseni/Cambyseni (named after Cambyses) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Eponym Person	'City of Cyrus' — i.e. named after Cyrus (genitive Κύρου = 'of Cyrus').
Morphological Composition	'or also called Κυρέσχατα' — alternate form of the place-name (basis for related demonyms).
Morphological Composition	'The citizen, among us, (is called) Κυροπολίτης' — demonym formed morphologically from Κύρου-πόλις.
Morphological Composition	'Among the Persians (they are called) Κυρεσχατηνοί' — demonym formed from Κυρέσχατα.
Place Transfer	'as Ἀραξηνοί (Araxenoi)' — named from the Araxes (place/river).
Eponym Person	'and Καμβυσηνοί (Kambysēnoi)' — named after Καμβύσης (Cambyses), i.e. an eponymous personal name.

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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 (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... + πρός + Y (dative) formula:1a524ea80fe79519	Translate as "X... near Y" Domain: SPATIAL & PREDICATE STATEMENTS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὁ πολίτης + X (nominative GENTILIC) formula:9b2896a329a36c7e	Translate as "a citizen is an 'X'" 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	καλεῖται/ἐκαλεῖτο/κέκληται/ἐκλήθη (ἀπο...) gloss:ef7a95cd709173ed	is/used to be/is/was called/named after (+ ἀπο) Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	πολίτης ὁ gloss:1c7dda400d7265cb	citizen Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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