Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Gindanes: a Libyan lotus-eating people, "who live eating only the fruit of the lotus".
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.
Γινδᾶνες, ἔθνος Λιβυκὸν λωτοφάγον “οἳ τὸν καρπὸν μόνον τοῦ λωτοῦ ἐσθίοντες ζῶσι”.
…αὶ νεανίας. Ἀκαρνάν ὁ ἥρως καὶ ἔθνος πρὸς τῷ Ἀχελῴῳ. Ἀρκτάν ἔθνος Ἠπειρωτικόν. Ῥιανὸς ἐν τετάρτῃ Θεσσαλικῶν. Ἀτιντάν υἱὸς Μακεδόνος καὶ ἔθνος Μακεδονίας. Βραχμάν Ἰνδικὸν ἔθνος σοφώτατον, οὓς καὶ Βράχμας καλοῦσιν. Γινδάν ἔθνος Λιβυκὸν λωτοφάγον «οἳ τὸν καρπὸν μόνον τοῦ λωτοῦ ἐσθίοντες ζῶσι» (Herodot. IV, 177). Δυμάν ὁ υἱὸς Αἰγιμίου, ὡς Ἔφορος αʹ «Αἰγίμιος γὰρ ἦν τῶν περὶ Οἴτην Δωριέων βασιλεύς. ἔσχε δὲ δύο παῖδας Πάμφυλον καὶ Δυμᾶνα καὶ τὸν τοῦ Ἡρακλέους Ὕλλον ἐποιήσατο τρίτον, χάριν ἀποδοὺς ἀνθ´ ὧν Ἡρακλ…