Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Olizōn: a city of Thessaly. Hecataeus in his Europa. It is declined with omega and accented on the final syllable: “and holding Pityeia and rugged Olizōn”. It is so accented to distinguish it from “but the peoples were fewer”. It was named from being small; for the Thessalians, as Demosthenes relates in the Ktiseis, call what is small olizon. The ethnic is Olizōnios.
Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.
Ὀλιζών, πόλις Θετταλίας. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. κλίνεται δὲ διὰ τοῦ « ω » καὶ ὀξύνεται “καὶ Πιτύειαν ἔχον καὶ Ὀλιζῶνα τρηχεῖαν”. ὀξύνεται δὲ πρὸς ἀντιδιαστολὴν τοῦ “λαοὶ δ´ ὑπ´ ὀλίζονες ἦσαν”. ὠνομάσθη δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ μικρὰ εἶναι. Θεσσαλοὶ γάρ, ὡς ἱστορεῖ Δημοσθένης ἐν κτίσεσι, τὸ μικρὸν ὄλιζον καλοῦσι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ὀλιζώνιος.
…ς τὸ 'ι' τραπέντος. ὀλίζων· τὸ δὲ Ὀλιζών πόλις Θετταλίας—Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ «καὶ Πιτύειαν ἔχον καὶ Ὀλιζῶνα τρηχεῖαν» (Il. Β 717)—κλίνεται διὰ τοῦ 'ω' καὶ ὀξύνεται πρὸς ἀντιδιαστολὴν τοῦ «λαοὶ δ´ ὑπ´ ὀλίζονες ἦσαν» (Σ 519). ὠνομάσθη δὲ ἀπὸ τοῦ μικρὰ εἶναι. Θεσσαλοὶ γάρ, ὡς ἱστορεῖ Δημοσθένης ἐν κτίσεσι, τὸ μικρὸν ὄλιζον καλοῦσι. τὸ δὲ Ἀμαζών ἔχει μακρὸν τὸ 'α'· ἔστι δὲ ἔθνος γυναικεῖον πρὸς τῷ Θερμώδοντι, ὡς Ἔφορος. τινὲς ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐστερῆσθαι μαζῶν· ἀπίθανος δὲ ἡ τοιαύτη ἐτυμολογία· Θεμισταγόρας δὲ καὶ ἐν τῇ χρυσῇ βίβλῳ φησίν «ὅτι κατὰ τὴν Ἀλόπην τὴ…