Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Gerenia: a city of Messenia, where, they say, Nestor the Pylian was reared or was brought as a fugitive. Hesiod in the first of the Catalogues: "and he killed eleven noble sons of stout-hearted Neleus, but the twelfth, Gerenian horseman Nestor, happened to be a guest among the horse-taming Gerenoi". From the nominative Gerenos. And again: "Nestor alone escaped in flowery Gerenos". From which nominative, the feminine Gerenos, Gereneus as from 'Alos' 'Aleus', and from it Gerenia and Gerenios.
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.
Γερηνία, πόλις Μεσσηνίας, ἔνθα, φασί, Νέστωρ ὁ Πύλιος ἐτράφη ἢ φυγὰς ἤχθη. Ἡσίοδος ἐν αʹ καταλόγων “κτεῖνε δὲ Νηλῆος ταλασίφρονος υἱέας ἐσθλοὺς ἕνδεκα, δωδέκατος δὲ Γερήνιος ἱππότα Νέστωρ ξεῖνος ἐὼν ἐτύχησε παρ´ ἱπποδάμοισι Γερήνοις”. ἀπὸ εὐθείας τῆς Γέρηνος. καὶ αὖθις “Νέστωρ οἶος ἄλυξεν ἐν ἀνθεμόεντι Γερήνῳ”. ἐξ ἧς εὐθείας, τῆς ἡ Γέρηνος, τὸ Γερηνεύς ὡς τοῦ Ἄλος Ἀλεύς, καὶ ἐξ αὐτοῦ Γερηνία καὶ Γερήνιος.
(Β 847). ἀπὸ γὰρ γενικῆς τῆς Τροιζῆνος ἐγένετο εὐθεῖα ἔθει ποιητικῷ· οὕτω καὶ ὁ Γέρην τοῦ Γέρηνος ὁ Γέρηνος· Ἡσίοδος ἐν αʹ καταλόγων «κτεῖνε δὲ Νηλῆος ταλασίφρονος υἱέας ἐσθλοὺς ἕνδεκα, δωδέκατος δὲ Γερήνιος ἱππότα Νέστωρ ξεῖνος ἐὼν ἐτύχησε παρ´ ἱπποδάμοισι Γερήνοις». καὶ αὖθις «Νέστωρ οἶος ἄλυξεν ἐν ἀνθεμοέντι Γερήνῳ». πρόσκειται δὲ «εἰ μὴ παρὰ Συρακουσίοις παράγοιτο καθ´ ὁμοιωματικὴν σημασίαν» διὰ τὸ τοσσῆνος, τοιῆνος. Τὰ εἰς 'ινος' ὑπερδισύλλαβα τὸ 'ι' βραχὺ ἔχοντα σημαίνοντα με…