Κώθων - Stephanos Ethnika

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island

Κώθων, νῆσος οὐ πόρρω Κυθήρων. Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐν ἐπιτομῇ τῶν ἕνδεκα. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κωθώνιος ὡς Σιδώνιος.

Kothon: an island not far from Kythera. Artemidoros in an epitome of his eleven books. The ethnonym is 'Kothonios'.

Text Details

Entry	#307
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 400.12 · Billerbeck Κ307
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count	15

Cited Authors

Author	Work / Citation
Ἀρτεμίδωρος (Artemidorus)	Ἐπιτομῇ τῶν ια · Epit. fr. 11 Stiehle

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κώθων	Kothon · place
Κύθηρα	Kythira (Cythera) · place · corrected · Q11855334
Κωθώνιος	Kothonian (ethnic) · people
Σιδώνιος	Sidonian (ethnic) · people

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Unclear Metalinguistic	'The ethnicon (demonym) Κωθώνιος, like Σιδώνιος.' (i.e. the inhabitants are called Κωθώνιοι, analogous to the formation of Σιδώνιος)

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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) + 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	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

Herodian overlaps

Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.

Herodian 1.28

char LCS 30 (37.5%) · word LCS 5 (33.3%)

Stephanos

Κώθων, νῆσος οὐ πόρρω Κυθήρων. Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐν ἐπιτομῇ τῶν ἕνδεκα. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κωθώνιος ὡς Σιδώνιος.

Herodian

…θηναῖοι οἰκότριβά φασι, σημαίνει δὲ καὶ εἶδος αἰσχρᾶς καὶ ἀπρεποῦς ὀρχήσεως, Ὄθων, Μάθων ὁ Θηβαῖος, πίθων ὁ πίθηκος ὑποκοριστικῶς, Ῥίνθων, αἴθων, ῥώθων, κώθων εἶδος ποτηρίου καὶ τὸ ἐν τῇ συνηθείᾳ ἐφ´ ὕβρει λεγόμενον καὶ νῆσος οὐ πόρρω Κυθήρων. Ἀρτεμίδωρος. μάλθων ὁ μαλθακός. Πύθων ὁ δράκων.