Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Miletos: a notable city in Karia, of the Ionians. Hekataios in his Asia. Didymos in his Symposiaka says that it was first called Lelegeis, after the inhabitants, the Leleges; then Pituyoussa, from the pine-trees there, and that there the pine first grew. For the inhabitants at the Thesmophoria are accustomed to place a branch of pine under the bedding, and a bough of pine upon the sacred things of Demeter, because of the antiquity of its origin. After this it was named Anaktoria after Anax, son of Earth and Ouranos. A citizen is a 'Milesios'. Thus too Thales, son of Examyos, was called a Milesios, and Phokylides, and Timotheos the kithara-player, who composed 18 books of kitharodic nomoi, to the number of 8,000 lines, and 1,000 privileges of others. He dies in Makedonia. The following is inscribed for him: Patra Miletos bears for the Muses the longed-for Timotheos, deft charioteer of the kithara.
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…πόλις ἐπιφανὴς ἐν Καρίᾳ τῶν Ἰώνων. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Δίδυμος δ´ ἐν συμποσιακοῖς φησιν ὅτι πρῶτον Λελεγηίς, ἐκαλεῖτο ἀπὸ τῶν ἐνοικούντων Λελέγων, εἶτα Πιτύουσα ἀπὸ τῶν ἐκεῖ πιτύων καὶ ὅτι ἐκεῖ πρῶτον πίτυς ἔφυ. οἱ γὰρ ..... ἐν τοῖς θεσμοφορίοις πίτυος κλάδον ὑπὸ τὴν στιβάδα ... καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ τῆς Δήμητρος ἱερὰ κλῶνον πίτυος τίθεσθαι .... διὰ τὸ ἀρχαῖον τῆς γενέσεως. μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἀπὸ Ἄνακτος τοῦ Γῆς καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ὠνομάσθη Ἀνακτορία· ὁ πολίτης Μιλήσιος. οὕτως καὶ Θαλῆς Ἐξαμύου πατρὸς Μιλήσιος ἐχρημάτιζε καὶ Φωκυλίδης καὶ Τιμόθεος κιθαρῳδός, ὃς ἐποίησε νόμων κιθαρῳδικῶν βίβλους ὀκτωκαίδεκα εἰς ἐπῶν ὀκτακισχιλίων τὸν ἀριθμόν, καὶ προνόμια ἄλλων χίλια…
…ιφανὴς ἐν Καρίᾳ τῶν Ἰώνων. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Δίδυμος δ´ ἐν τοῖς συμποσιακοῖς φησιν, ὅτι πρῶτον Λελεγηίς ἐκαλεῖτο ἀπὸ τῶν ἐνοικούντων Λελέγων, εἶτα Πιτύουσα ἀπὸ τῶν ἐκεῖ πιτύων καὶ ὅτι ἐκεῖ πρῶτον πίτυς ἔφυ. οἱ γὰρ Μιλήσιοι ἐν τοῖς θεσμοφορίοις πίτυος κλάδον ὑπὸ τὴν στιβάδα... καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ τῆς Δήμητρος ἱερὰ κλῶνον πίτυος τίθεσθαι... διὰ τὸ ἀρχαῖον τῆς γενέσεως. μετὰ δὲ ταῦτα ἀπὸ Ἄνακτος τοῦ Γῆς καὶ Οὐρανοῦ ὠνομάσθη Ἀνακτορία. ἔστι δὲ καὶ Κρητικὴ πόλις Μίλητος. λέγεται δὲ καὶ τὴν Καλυψοῦς νῆσον Μίλητον κληθῆναί ποτε. Κόρητος. Κατάρητος ὁ ποταμός. Αἴνητος ὄνομα κύριον, τρύγητος
Μίλητος, πόλις ἐπιφανὴς ἐν Καρίᾳ τῶν Ἰώνων. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Δίδυμος δ´ ἐν συμποσιακοῖς φησιν ὅτι πρῶτον Λελεγηίς, ἐκαλεῖτο ἀπὸ τῶν ἐνοικούντων Λελέγων, εἶτα Πιτύουσα ἀπὸ τῶν ἐκεῖ πιτύων καὶ ὅτι ἐκεῖ πρῶτον πίτυς ἔφυ. οἱ γὰρ ..... ἐν τοῖς θεσμοφορίοις πίτυος κλάδον ὑπὸ τὴν στιβάδα ... καὶ ἐπὶ τὰ τῆς Δήμητρος ἱερὰ κλῶνον πίτυος τίθεσθαι .... διὰ τὸ ἀρχαῖον τῆς γενέσεως.…
…αληΐς, βασιληΐς, Οἰτηΐς, Βοιβηΐς, Καδμηΐς. ἐκαλεῖτο οὕτως ἡ Βοιωτία ὡς Θουκυδίδης (I 12), Βρυγηΐς, Παταρηΐς, Πελοπηΐς, Γολγηΐς, Μινυηΐς, Ῥοιτηΐς, Γρυνηΐς, Θυνηΐς, Δολοπηΐς ἡ χώρα τῶν Δολόπων, Λελεγηΐς. οὕτω πρῶτον Μίλητος ἐκαλεῖτο ἀπὸ τῶν ἐνοικούντων Λελέγων, ὡς Δίδυμος ἐν συμποσιακοῖς. Λιλυβηΐς, Λυκτηΐς, Δραγγηΐς, Ταμυνηΐς, Δρυοπηΐς, Δωτηΐς. Ῥιανὸς ἐν δʹ Μεσσηνιακῶν »αὐδὴν εἰσάμενος Δωτηΐδι Νικοτελείῃ«. Μελανηΐς· οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο Ἐρέτρια ἀπὸ Μελανέως τοῦ Εὐρύτου πατρός. Δρυη…