Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Metropolis: of Phrygia, settled by the Mother of the Gods, as Alexander in his On Phrygia. There is also another of Phrygia, homonymous. Third, of Lydia. Fourth of Thessaly. Fifth of Akarnania. The ethnonym Metropolites. Sixth, of the Dorians. Seventh of the Mossynoikoi in the Pontos. Eighth, of Scythia. Ninth, of Euboia. Tenth, of upper Thessaly.
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.
Μητρόπολις, [πόλις] Φρυγίας, ὑπὸ τῆς μητρὸς τῶν θεῶν οἰκισθεῖσα, ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τῷ περὶ Φρυγίας. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη Φρυγίας ὁμώνυμος. τρίτη Λυδίας. τετάρτη Θεσσαλίας. πέμπτη Ἀκαρνανίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Μητροπολίτης. ἕκτη Δωριέων. ἑβδόμη τῶν ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ Μοσσυνοίκων. ὀγδόη Σκυθίας. ἐνάτη Εὐβοίας. δεκάτη τῆς ἄνω Θετταλ…
…λογεῖν, εἰ παρὰ τὸ δέω γένοιτο δέεμος καὶ ἐν συναλοιφῇ δῆμος, τὸ συνδεδεμένον πλῆθος. τὸ γὰρ ἐναντίον λύη ἀπὸ τῆς διαλύσεως. Τὰ εἰς 'αμος' μονογενῆ δισύλλαβα βαρύνεται, πράμος, γάμος, Σάμος ἐπιφανὴς πρὸς τῇ Καρίᾳ νῆσος, ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τῷ περὶ