Κῶς - Stephanos Ethnika

Κῶς OCR ✓ Trans ✓ Confirmed ✓

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Κῶς, τὸ ὄρυγμα τὸ ἐν Κορίνθῳ, οὗ καθείργνυον τοὺς φῶρας καὶ τοὺς δραπέτας. λέγεται καὶ κῶος, κῶες δὲ οἱ ἐν αὐτῷ ἀνατραφέντες. κώους γὰρ τὰ κοιλώματα τῆς γῆς καὶ πάντα τὰ σπήλαια ἔλεγον.

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Text Details

Entry	#314
Greek text	meineke
Edition ids	Meineke 402.8 · Billerbeck Κ314
OCR	gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-24
Word count	33

Mentioned Entities

Entity	Details
Κῶς	Kos (island) · place
Κόρινθος	Corinth · place · corrected · Q1363688
Κῶς	Kos (alt. form) · place
Κῶες	the people of Kos · people
Κῶς	place · place · explicit · wikidata: Q187027 · seeded_headword_alignment

Etymologies

Category	Explanation
Morphological Composition	It is also called Kôos, and 'kōes' are those brought up in it. For 'kōous' they called the hollows of the earth and all caves.

Links

Place links	Kos \| 📍 Map \| Pleiades
Page scans	e9783110219630_i0959.jpg
Review	Open review page

Translation Guidance

Kind	Rule	Guidance	Detection
Formula	X (genitive ETYMON) + Y (nominative DERIVED NOUN) formula:439629f16cfaba3f	Translate as "Y is from 'X'" Domain: COMPARISONS & DERIVATIONAL ANALOGIES Rule status: In progress	Matched · high confidence · 1 scan row · 1 occurrence
Gloss	γῆ ἡ gloss:728db30aa96e9869	land, dirt, Earth Domain: TERRAIN/LANDMASSES 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 1.404

char LCS 132 (89.8%) · word LCS 28 (84.8%)

Stephanos

Κῶς, τὸ ὄρυγμα τὸ ἐν Κορίνθῳ, οὗ καθείργνυον τοὺς φῶρας καὶ τοὺς δραπέτας. λέγεται καὶ κῶος, κῶες δὲ οἱ ἐν αὐτῷ ἀνατραφέντες. κώους γὰρ τὰ κοιλώματα τῆς γῆς καὶ πάντα τὰ σπήλαια ἔλεγον.

Herodian

Κορίνθῳ, οὗ καθείργνυον τοὺς φῶρας καὶ τοὺς δραπέτας. λέγεται καὶ κῶος, κῶες δὲ οἱ ἐν αὐτῷ ἀνατραφέντες. κώους γὰρ τὰ κοιλώματα τῆς γῆς καὶ πάντα τὰ σπήλαια ἔλεγον. Τλῶς ὁ Τρεμίλητος καὶ Πραξιδίκης νύμφης καὶ ἀπ´ αὐτοῦ Τλῶς πόλις Λυκίας. ἔστι καὶ Τλῶς τὸ ἐθνικόν. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη Τλῶς πόλις Πισιδίας. Λῶς νῆσος περὶ Θετταλίαν. Ἀρτεμίδωρος. χωρὶς τοῦ ζώς «ἦ κε ζὼς ἀμενηνὸς ἔα χαλκοῖο τ…

Herodian 1.403

char LCS 15 (10.2%) · word LCS 5 (15.2%)

Stephanos

Κῶς, τὸ ὄρυγμα τὸ ἐν Κορίνθῳ, οὗ καθείργνυον τοὺς φῶρας καὶ τοὺς δραπέτας. λέγεται καὶ κῶος, κῶες δὲ οἱ ἐν αὐτῷ ἀνατραφέντες. κώους γὰρ τὰ κοιλώματα τῆς γῆς καὶ πάντα τὰ σπήλαια ἔλεγον.

Herodian

…ς, ἀφ´ οὗ τὸ παρ´ Ὁμήρῳ τοπικὸν «καί μιν ἔπειτα Κόωνδ´ εὐναιομένην ἀπένεικας» (Il. Ξ 255). λέγεται καὶ Κόος διὰ δύο 'οο'. ἔοικεν οὖν τὸ πρωτότυπον Κῶς. οὕτως γὰρ καὶ ὁ κτίστης. ἔστι καὶ ἐν Αἰγύπτῳ πόλις Κῶς. ἔστι δὲ καὶ κῶς τὸ ὄρυγμα τὸ ἐν