Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Boutos: a city of Egypt. Herodian calls it a village. It was called Bouto, from which also Leto Bouto, whose oracle it was. There is also another of Gedrosia. The ethnonym Boutios, but of Bouto Boutoites or Boutoites, as of 'Sabo' 'Saboites' and 'Saboites'.
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.
Βοῦτος, πόλις Αἰγύπτου. Ἡρωδιανὸς δὲ κώμην αὐτήν φησιν. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ Βουτώ ἀφ´ ἧς καὶ ἡ Λητὼ Βουτώ, ἧς τινος χρηστήριον ἦν. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα Γεδρωσίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Βούτιος, τοῦ δὲ Βουτοῦς Βουτοΐτης ἢ Βουτοίτης, ὡς τῆς Σαβοῦς Σαβοΐτης καὶ Σαβοίτης.
…στικὰ θέλει φυλάττειν τὸ σύμφωνον τῆς δευτέρας συλλαβῆς τῶν ἰδίων πρωτοτύπων οἷον Ὑψιπύλη Ὑψώ, Εἰδοθέα Εἰδώ παρ´ Αἰσχύλῳ· εἰ οὖν Δημήτηρ, Δημώ ὤφειλεν εἶναι, ἀλλ´ οὐκ ἔστιν ὑποκοριστικόν. Βουτώ κώμη Αἰγύπτου, ἀφ´ ἧς καὶ Λητὼ Βουτώ, ἧς τινος χρηστήριον ἦν. ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ καὶ Βοῦτος. Δωδώ· οὕτως ἐλέγετο Δωδώνη Σιμμίας ὁ Ῥόδιος »Ζηνὸς ἕδος Κρονίδαο μάκαιρ´ ὑπεδέξατο Δωδώ«. Ἐλβώ νῆσος. Ἡρόδοτος δευτέρᾳ (c. 140). Ἀμαζώ θυγάτηρ τῆς Ἐφέσου, ἀφ´ ἧς αἱ Ἀμαζόνες. Ἡρώ πόλις Αἰγυπτία. Στ…