Κυρταία - Stephanos Ethnika

Κυρταία OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Κυρταία, πόλις ἐν τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ, εἰς ἣν ὑπερώρισεν Ἀρταξέρξης Μεγάβυζον. Κτησίας τρίτῳ Περσικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ἐκ τῆς τέχνης Κυρταιανός, ἐκ δὲ τῆς χώρας Κυρταιηνός ὡς Σωφηνός καὶ Ἀραξηνός.

Kyrtaia: a city on the Red Sea, to which Artaxerxes exiled Megabyzos. Ktesias in book 3 of his Persika. According to the grammatical rule the ethnonym is 'Kyrtaianos', but in local usage it is 'Kyrtaienos'.

Text Details

Entry	#294
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 397.15 · Billerbeck Κ294
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count	29

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Κτησίας (Ktesias)	Περσικῶν · fr. 14a Lenfant = FGrHist 688 F 14a
Σωφηνός (Sophenos)	—
Ἀραξηνός (Araxenos)	—

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κυρταία	Kyrtaia (Kyrtaea) · place
Ἐρυθρά (θάλασσα)	Red Sea · place
Ἀρταξέρξης	Artaxerxes · person
Μεγάβυζος	Megabyzus · person
Κυρταιανός	Kyrtaean (ethnic) · people
Κυρταιηνός	Kyrtaean (from the country) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnic (demonym) from the trade/formation is Κυρταιανός, and from the region (land) Κυρταιηνός, according to Sophenos and Araxenos.

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Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	"X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	τέχνη ἡ (κατὰ τέχνην, ἐκ τῆς τέχνης) gloss:3413cbe76a6e6b70	grammatical rule Domain: LINGUISTIC/META-LINGUISTIC Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	χώρα ἡ gloss:54f628c16aa263ce	region; territory (when belonging to a specific people, tribe, or nation); surrounding territory (when juxtaposed against a πόλις) Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence

Herodian overlaps

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char LCS 83 (53.5%) · word LCS 14 (48.3%)

Stephanos

Κυρταία, πόλις ἐν τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ, εἰς ἣν ὑπερώρισεν Ἀρταξέρξης Μεγάβυζον. Κτησίας τρίτῳ Περσικῶν. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ἐκ τῆς τέχνης Κυρταιανός, ἐκ δὲ τῆς χώρας Κυρταιηνός ὡς Σωφηνός καὶ Ἀραξηνός.

Herodian

…ὔδοξος δὲ διὰ τοῦ 'θ' φησί. Λυκόφρων (v. 907) «καὶ Κασταναίαν ἀκτέριστον ἐν πέτραις». Κοσσαία μέρος Περσίδος· Στράβων ιϛʹ. ἔστι καὶ Θρᾴκης πολίχνιον. Καρταία πόλις Ἰβηρίας, περὶ ἧς Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐν δευτέρῳ γεωγραφουμένων. Κυρταία πόλις ἐν τῇ Ἐρυθρᾷ θαλάσσῃ, εἰς ἣν ὑπερώρισεν Ἀρταξέρξης Μεγάβυζον. Κτησίας τρίτω Περσικῶν. Κυτταία πόλις Κολχική, ἣ καὶ Κύτα. Λυκόφρων (v. 1312) «ὃς εἰς Κυταίαν τὴν Λιβυστίνην μολών». Λιβυσσαία ἀπὸ τοῦ Λίβυσσα. Λιμναία κώμη τοῦ Ἄργους. Θουκυδίδης ( 2, 80). Νυμφαία ἡ νῆσος Καλυψοῦς παρὰ τῷ Ἀδρίᾳ. Ὀρδαία πόλις…