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'''Coenus''' or '''Koinos''' ({{lang-grc-gre|Κοῖνος}}) was, after ], the second king of the ancient kingdom of ]. |
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'''Coenus''' or '''Koinos''' ({{lang-grc-gre|Κοῖνος}}) was, after ], the second king of the ancient kingdom of ] in ]. |
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The Macedonian historian ] relates the following aetiological story regarding his name:<ref>Kleine philologische Schriften: Zur griechischen Literatur By ] (1866) Leipzig</ref><ref>The history of Alexander the Great by Charles Alexander Robinson Page 169 (1953)</ref> "...a certain Knopis from ] came to Macedonia and lived in the court of Caranus; when the royal male child was born, Caranus had the desire to name him after his father, Kiraron or Kararon, but the mother opposed and wanted after her father the child to be named. When Knopis was asked responded: by neither name. Therefore he was called Koinos (common)". |
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The Macedonian historian ] relates the following aetiological story regarding his name:<ref>Kleine philologische Schriften: Zur griechischen Literatur By ] (1866) Leipzig</ref><ref>The history of Alexander the Great by Charles Alexander Robinson Page 169 (1953)</ref> "...a certain Knopis from ] came to Macedonia and lived in the court of Caranus; when the royal male child was born, Caranus had the desire to name him after his father, Kiraron or Kararon, but the mother opposed and wanted after her father the child to be named. When Knopis was asked responded: by neither name. Therefore he was called Koinos (common)". |
