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Headword: *kunosouri/a
Adler number: kappa,2724
Translated headword: Kynosouria, Cynosuria, Dog's-tail
Vetting Status: high
Translation:
[no gloss]
Greek Original:
*kunosouri/a.
Note:
The only other extant attestation of the feminine headword, here nominative, is the accusative *kunosouri/an in the mss of Lucian, Icaromenippus 18, but Palmer offers *kunouri/an ("Cynuria") as a plausible emendation to Lucian's text based on the context, which refers to the "Battle of the Champions" between Sparta and Argos [Myth, Place] in Kynouria, in the borderlands of the two poleis on the eastern coast of the Peloponnese (Herodotus 1.82, cf. Pausanias 2.38.5). Alternatively the headword might be a lesser-known variation of kuno/soura or kuno/souros in any of their attestations as names for headlands, constellations or types of eggs. Despite the lack of attestation, "Cynosuria" is sometimes encountered in 19th century classical scholarship as a variant either of "Cynuria" (cf. George Rawlinson's notes accompanying his translation of Herodotus) or "Cynosoura" (cf. Hazlett's listing of "Cynosuria" as an ancient district of Megaris, extrapolated from the reference in Plutarch, Moralia 295b to *kunosourei=s as one of the divisions of the Megarian population).
Reference:
William Hazlitt, The Classical Gazetteer: A Dictionary of Ancient Geography Sacred and Profane, London, 1851
Keywords: dialects, grammar, and etymology; geography; historiography; history; imagery; military affairs; mythology; zoology
Translated by: William Hutton on 16 March 2008@18:47:38.
Vetted by:
Jennifer Benedict (Modified note, added biblio, set status) on 16 March 2008@21:22:36.
David Whitehead (tweaked note; modified keywords) on 17 March 2008@04:38:06.
William Hutton (modified note) on 17 March 2008@16:53:36.
David Whitehead (tweaking) on 22 March 2013@05:33:07.
Catharine Roth (coding) on 26 February 2015@01:33:42.
Catharine Roth (tweaked betacode) on 10 March 2020@02:15:02.

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