Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Chaonia: the central part of Epirus. The inhabitants are the Chaones. Hellanikos in book 3 of his Priestesses of Hera: ‘The Ambrakiotai and the Chaones with them and the Epeirotai.’ Proxenos too, listing them, says: ‘Chaones, Thesprotoi, Tymphaioi, Parauaioi, Amymones, Abantes, Kassopoi.’ There is also the form ‘Chaonios’. Euphorion in his Chiliades: ‘The prophetic interpreters of Zeus Chaonios proclaimed it.’ The feminine is also ‘Chaonie’. Alexander of Ephesos in his Asia and Libya: ‘Those below [occupy] Pelasgian Chaonia.’ There is also ‘Chaonitai’. Lykophron: ‘Drawing the stream of Polyantheus the Chaonite’; this is from the form ‘Chaon’, just as ‘Ausonites’ is from ‘Auson’. The same author: ‘He will build the Ausonite Pyramos.’ The same author also uses the possessive form: ‘A voice from Chaonitic seats.’ There is also ‘Chaonikos’, from the form ‘Chaon’. Hekataios in his Europe: ‘The gulf is the Kirraian Gulf, and the plain lies in Chaonike.’ The feminine ‘Chaonis’ is as in ‘Ausonis’. There is also ‘Chaoneus’.
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Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.
Χαονία, μέση τῆς Ἠπείρου. οἱ οἰκήτορες Χάονες. Ἑλλάνικος ἱερειῶν Ἥρας τρίτῳ “Ἀμβρακιῶται καὶ οἱ μετ´ αὐτῶν Χάονες καὶ Ἠπειρῶται”. καὶ ὁ Πρόξενος δὲ καταλέγων αὐτούς φησι “Χάονες Θεσπρωτοί Τυμφαῖοι Παραυαῖοι Ἀμύμονες Ἄβαντες Κασσωποί”. λέγεται καὶ Χαόνιος. Εὐφορίων χιλιάσι “Ζηνὸς Χαονίοιο προμάντιες ηὐδάξαντο”. καὶ Χαονίη τὸ θηλυκόν. Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ Ἐφέσιος ἐν Ἀσίᾳ καὶ Λιβύῃ “οἱ δὲ κάτω Πελασγίδα Χαονίην”. καὶ Χαονῖται, Λυκόφρων “τοῦ Χαονίτου νᾶμα Πολυ…
…ων, λέων, Νέων, νεών δὲ ὡς περιεκτικόν· ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ Νεών πόλις Φωκίδος. Ἡρόδοτος ὀγδόῃ (c. 32). Τὰ εἰς 'ων' παραληγόμενα 'α' μακρῷ βαρύνεται, Ἄων ἔθνος Βοιωτίας, Δάων ἔθνος τῆς Ἰνδικῆς ἀπὸ Δάονος, Χάων ἔθνος Ἠπείρου. Ἑλλάνικος ἱερειῶν Ἥρας τρίτῳ «Ἀμβρακιῶται καὶ οἱ μετ´ αὐτῶν Χάονες καὶ Ἠπειρῶται». καὶ ὁ Πρόξενος δὲ καταλέγων αὐτούς φησι· «Χάονες, Θεσπρωτοί, Τυμφαῖοι, Παραυαῖοι, Ἀμύμονες, Ἄβαντες, Κασσωποί». Ἰάων, Κατάων ἔθνος Καππαδοκίας, ὡς Στράβων, Βαγαδάων ἔθνος Καππαδοκίας, Λυκάων ἔθνος Λυκίας τε καὶ Ἰσαυρίας ὁμοφώνως τῷ κτιστῇ, ὀπάων, Μαχάων, Ποσειδάων, Ἀρετάων, Ἱκετάων, Ἀμυθάων ὁ Κρηθέως. * Τὰ εἰς 'ων' ἀρσενικὰ ὑπὲ…