Κύρτος

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city
Entry #295
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 398.3 | Billerbeck: Κ295
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count: 49
Sources: Ἐρέννιος Φίλων (Erennios Philon) FGrHist 790 F 52a [Περὶ ἰατρῶν]
Entities: Κύρτος (Kyrtos (city)) [place], Αἴγυπτος (Egypt) [place], Διονύσιος (Dionysios) [person], Κύρτος (Kyrtos (name variant)) [place]
Etymologies: Place Transfer: From this (city) Dionysios was a famous physician, named Kyrtos from his homeland, not called Kyrtos from his body.; Unclear Metalinguistic: The accent of the ethnicon is acute, homophonous with the disease, while that of the city-name is grave, like 'kúrtos' and 'póntos'.
Place: Κύρτος 2 (Pauly-Wissowa)
Source: e9783110219630_i0892.jpg
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Κύρτος, πόλις Αἰγύπτου ἐν τῷ μεσογείῳ. ἐκ ταύτης Διονύσιος ἦν διάσημος ἰατρός, ἀπὸ τῆς πατρίδος, οὐκ ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος Κυρτός ὀνομαζόμενος, οὗ μέμνηται Ἑρέννιος Φίλων ἐν τῷ περὶ ἰατρῶν. ὁ τόνος τοῦ μὲν ἐθνικοῦ ὀξὺς ὁμόφωνος τῷ πάθει, τοῦ δὲ κυρίου τῆς πόλεως βαρύς, ὡς τὸ κόντος καὶ πόντος.
Cyrtos: a city of Egypt in the interior. From this place came Dionysius, a distinguished physician, called Kyrtos from his native city, not from his bodily condition (i.e. ‘hunchback’); Herennius Philo mentions him in his work On Physicians. The accent of the ethnic name is acute, homophonous with the affection/disease, whereas that of the proper name of the city is grave, as (in the pair) kóntos and póntos.

Herodian overlaps

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Herodian 1.216
char LCS 31 (13.4%) · word LCS 6 (12.2%)
Stephanos
Κύρτος, πόλις Αἰγύπτου ἐν τῷ μεσογείῳ. ἐκ ταύτης Διονύσιος ἦν διάσημος ἰατρός, ἀπὸ τῆς πατρίδος, οὐκ ἀπὸ τοῦ σώματος Κυρτός ὀνομαζόμενος, οὗ μέμνηται Ἑρέννιος Φίλων ἐν τῷ περὶ ἰατρῶν. ὁ τόνος τοῦ μὲν ἐθνικοῦ ὀξὺς ὁμόφωνος τῷ πάθει, τοῦ δὲ κυρίου τῆς πόλεως …
Herodian
…ἄρτος, μίλτος, δέλτος, κίρτος· παρὰ Σιμωνίδῃ ἡ χρῆσις. Τοῦρτος· οὕτως καλεῖ Ἀρτεμίδωρος τοὺς οἰκήτορας τῆς Τουρδητανίας. Ἄλτος χωρίον πλησίον Θεσσαλονίκης. Πάλτος πόλις Συρίας. Ἀρτεμίδωρος. πόντος καὶ ἰδικῶς ὁ Εὔξεινος. Κύρτος πόλις Αἰγύπτου ἐν τῷ μεσογείῳ. καὶ κύρτος εἶδος δικτύου. σεσημείωται κοντός καὶ παλτός ὀξυνόμενα. τὸ δὲ σπαρτός, κυρτός, καρτός, θικτός ὀξύνονται ὡς θηλυκὰ ἔχοντα. ὀξύνεται δὲ καὶ Κυρτός τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὡς καὶ Σιντός ἔθνος Θρᾳκικόν, οἳ καὶ Σίντιες καὶ Σί…

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