Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Miletos: an illustrious city of the Ionians in Karia. Hekataios in the Asia. Didymos in the Symposiaka says that it was first called Lelegeis from the Leleges dwelling there, then Pityousa from the pines there, and that the pine first grew there. For the..... at the Thesmophoria a pine branch under the couch... and at the rites of Demeter a pine twig is placed.... because of the antiquity of its origin. After this it was named Anaktoria from Anax the son of Ge and Ouranos; the citizen Milesios. So too Thales, of Examyes as father, was styled Milesian, and Phokylides and Timotheos the kitharode, who composed eighteen books of kitharodic nomes to the number of eight thousand verses, and a thousand preludes of others. He dies in Macedonia. This is inscribed on him: "Fatherland Miletos bears for the Muses the longed-for Timotheos, skilled charioteer of the kithara."
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.
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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.…
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