Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Berekyntos: genitive of an unspoken nominative. It is a city of Phrygia. And the land Berekyntia. For there was a certain Berekyntes, from whom the Berekyntian land. And the ethnonym Berekyntai homophonously.
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.
Βερέκυντος, γενικὴ τῆς εὐθείας ἀρρήτου. ἔστι δὲ πόλις Φρυγίας. καὶ ἡ χώρα Βερεκυντία. ἦν γάρ τις Βερεκύντης, ἀφ´ οὗ ἡ Βερεκυντία χώρα. καὶ τὸ ἐθνικὸν Βερεκύνται ὁμοφώνως.
ἀφ´ οὗ ἡ Βερεκυντία χώρα. Βισάλτης ὁ Ἡλίου καὶ Γῆς, ἀφ´ οὗ Βισαλτία πόλις καὶ χώρα Μακεδονίας. καὶ τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὁμοφώνως· ἔστι καὶ Βισάλτης ποταμός. Ἰαξάρτης ποταμὸς ὁ Τάναϊς. τὸ δὲ ἑκοντής, ἐθελοντής μετοχικά. παρὰ δὲ Ἀττικοῖς ὀξύνεται τὸ καθαρτ…