Karneios (
sic) was an epithet of Apollo in the Peloponnese (see e.g.
Pindar,
Pythians 5.79-80), and the Karneia his great festival there, esp. in
Sparta↗ (
Herodotus 7.206,
Thucydides 5.75, etc.).
The Suda's headword 'Karnios' is also found twice in
Stephanus of
Byzantium↗: as the ktetikon of a city of
Aiolis↗ called Karne, and as the ethnikon of an Akarnanian island-city called Karnos. Probably more to the point is a place in SW Lakonia called Karnion, mentioned by
Polybius 5.19.4 (Philip V camps there in 218 BCE); Walbank's note suggests that it 'is probably to be identified with the temple of Apollo Carneius on the hill of Knakadion near Las'.