Κυνοσουρία

Notes

1. 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).