Κῶβρυς - Stephanos Ethnika

Κῶβρυς OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Κῶβρυς, πόλις Θρᾴκης. Θεόπομπος Φιλιππικῶν ἐνάτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κωβρύτης, ὡς Αἶγυς Αἰγύτης.

Kobrys: a city in Thrace. Theopompos in book 9 of his Philippika. The ethnonym is 'Kobrytes'.

Text Details

Entry	#306
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 400.10 · Billerbeck Κ306
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count	12

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Θεόπομπος (Theopompos)	Φιλιππικῶν · FGrHist 115 F 84

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κῶβρυς	Kōbrys (Kobrys) · place · corrected · Q65119714
Θρᾴκη	Thrace · place · corrected · Q41741
Κωβρύτης	Kōbrytēs (ethnicon) · other
Αἶγυς	Aigus · other
Αἰγύτης	Aigytes · other
Κῶβρυς	place · explicit · wikidata: Q65119714 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	The ethnicon (demonym) is Κωβρύτης, formed analogously to Αἶγυς → Αἰγύτης.

Links

Place links	Cobrys \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0934.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + Y (NUMERAL) formula:a0ca4574d7d0ffdb	Translate as "X, book Y" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (AUTHOR NAME) + ἐν + Y (dative BOOK NAME) formula:c795eaabedf9a542	*Translate as "Χ, in his Y"* Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	X (nominative DERIVED NOUN) + Y (nominative ETYMON) formula:4e7b910409d678a8	Translate as "'X' is from Y" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (AUTHOR NAME) formula:d915b1886270056c	Translate as "as per X" Domain: SOURCE CITATIONS Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Formula	ὡς + X (definite ARTICLE + ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:bcd70ae781e7b205	Translate as "just as 'Y' is from the name X" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
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 · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	ἐθνικόν τό gloss:9c5337ad6342cf4a	ethnonym Domain: POLITCAL/CULTURAL	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 1.237

char LCS 41 (56.9%) · word LCS 6 (50.0%)

Stephanos

Κῶβρυς, πόλις Θρᾴκης. Θεόπομπος Φιλιππικῶν ἐνάτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κωβρύτης, ὡς Αἶγυς Αἰγύτης.

Herodian

…φαξυς εἶδος λαχάνου, ἄμαξυς, κόρυς, κῶμυς, ἔγχελυς· οἱ δὲ Ἐγχελεῖς ἔθνος Ἰλλυρικὸν ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἐγχελής ἢ ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἐγχελεύς. λέγεται καὶ Ἐγχελέαι ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἐγχελέης ἢ Ἐγχελέας. Μῶλυς Λίβυσσα πόλις. Ἑκαταῖος περιηγήσει Λιβύης. Κῶβρυς πόλις Θρᾴκης. Θεόπομπος Φιλιππικῶν ἐνάτῳ. Αἶγυς πόλις Λιγυστική, ὡς Εὐφορίων.