Κώθων - Stephanos Ethnika

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island

Entry #307
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 400.12 | Billerbeck: Κ307
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-23
Word count: 15
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Ἀρτεμίδωρος (Artemidorus) Epit. fr. 11 Stiehle [Ἐπιτομῇ τῶν ια]
Entities: Κώθων (Kothon) [place], Κύθηρα (Kythira (Cythera)) [place], Κωθώνιος (Kothonian (ethnic)) [people], Σιδώνιος (Sidonian (ethnic)) [people]
Etymologies: 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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Κώθων, νῆσος οὐ πόρρω Κυθήρων. Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐν ἐπιτομῇ τῶν ἕνδεκα. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Κωθώνιος ὡς Σιδώνιος.

Kōthōn: an island not far from Kythēra. Artemidoros in the Epitomē of the eleven (books). The ethnic (gentilic) is Kōthōnios, as (one says) Sidōnios.

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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.