Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Aspledon: a city of Phokis. Pausanias in the ninth. From Aspledon son of the nymph Mideia and Poseidon. The one in Homer of Boiotia they say.... the Aiolians were formerly called Boiotians, and those of Orchomenos and Aspledon. It is written also without the 'a', but not in Homer. The ethnonym Aspledonios. The sons of Orchomenos: "Aspledon and Klymenos and godlike Amphidokos".
External translation supplied by Brady Kiesling; reported Claude Fable 5.5 translation. Credit: Brady Kiesling and the Stephanos project (Greg Baker, Gabriel Jower, Greta Hawes, Brady Kiesling). Not individually verified; exact Greek input not supplied.
Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.
Ἀσπληδών, πόλις Φωκίδος. Παυσανίας ἐνάτῳ. ἀπὸ Ἀσπληδόνος υἱοῦ νύμφης Μιδείας καὶ Ποσειδῶνος. τὴν δὲ παρ´ Ὁμήρῳ τῆς Βοιωτίας φασὶ .... τοὺς Αἰολεῖς πρότερον Βοιωτοὺς καλεῖσθαι, τοὺς δὲ Ὀρχομενὸν καὶ Ἀσπληδόνα. γράφεται καὶ χωρὶς τοῦ « α », ἀλλ´ οὐ παρ´ Ὁμήρῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἀσπληδόνιος. Ὀρχομενοῦ δὲ υἱεῖς “Ἀσπληδὼν…
…θου τοῦ Ποσειδῶνος καὶ Ἀλκυόνος τῆς Ἄτλαντος. συνῴκισαν δ´ αὐτὴν Θρᾷκες, ὡς Λυκόφρων «ἀστῷ σύνοικος Θρῃκίας Ἀνθηδόνος» (v. 754) ἢ διὰ τὸ πασῶν ἀνθηροτάτην εἶναι. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα πόλις πλησίον Γάζης πρὸς τῷ παραλίῳ μέρει. Ἀσπληδών, πόλις Φωκίδος. Παυσανίας ἐνάτῳ (c. 38, 9)· ἀπὸ Ἀσπληδόνος υἱοῦ νύμφης Μιδείας καὶ Ποσειδῶνος ἢ Πρέσβωνος ἢ Ὀρχομενοῦ. Ὀρχομενοῦ γὰρ υἱεῖς «Ἀσπληδών Κλύμενός τε καὶ Ἀμφίδοκος θεοειδής» (Hesiod. fr. 47 Markscheffel). τὴν δὲ παρ´ Ὁμήρῳ τῆς Βοιωτίας φασί. γράφεται καὶ χωρὶς τοῦ 'α', ἀλλ´ οὐ παρ´ Ὁμήρῳ. Ἰσσηδών ἔθνο…