Κῶβρυς - Stephanos Ethnika

Κῶβρυς OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

city

Entry #306
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 400.10 | Billerbeck: Κ306
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count: 12
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Θεόπομπος (Theopompos) FGrHist 115 F 84 [Φιλιππικῶν]
Entities: Κῶβρυς (Kōbrys (Kobrys)) [place], Θρᾴκη (Thrace) [place], Κωβρύτης (Kōbrytēs (ethnicon)) [other], Αἶγυς (Aigus) [other], Αἰγύτης (Aigytes) [other]
Etymologies: Morphological Composition: The ethnicon (demonym) is Κωβρύτης, formed analogously to Αἶγυς → Αἰγύτης.
Place: Cobrys | 📍 Map
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Κῶβρυς, πόλις Θρᾴκης. Θεόπομπος Φιλιππικῶν ἐνάτῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κωβρύτης, ὡς Αἶγυς Αἰγύτης.

Kōbrys: a city of Thrace. Theopompos, in Book 9 of the *Philippika*. The ethnic (gentilic) is Kōbrytēs, as (one has) Aigys → Aigytes.

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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.