Ὀρέσται

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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Ὀρέσται, Μολοσσικὸν ἔθνος. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. Θεαγένης ἐν Μακεδονικοῖς φησιν ὅτι, ἐπεὶ ἀφείθη τῆς μανίας Ὀρέστης, φεύγων διὰ τὴν αἰδῶ μετὰ τῆς Ἑρμιόνης εἰς ταύτην ἦλθε τὴν γῆν καὶ παῖδα ἔσχεν Ὀρέστην, οὗ ἄρξαντος ἐκλήθησαν Ὀρέσται· αὐτὸς δὲ ὑπὸ ἐχίδνης δηχθεὶς θνήσκει εἰς χωρίον τῆς Ἀρκαδίας, τὸ λεγόμενον Ὀρέστειον. λέγεται καὶ θηλυκὸν Ὀρεστίς καὶ Ὀρεστιάς, ὡσαύτως Θεαγένης [καὶ] Διονύσιος δευτέρῳ Γιγαντιάδος.

Orestai: a Molossian ethnos. Hecataeus in the Europa. Theagenes in the Makedonika says that, when Orestes was released from his madness, he fled out of shame and came to this land with Hermione, and had a son, Orestes; from the time this son ruled they were called Orestai. But he himself, bitten by a viper, dies at a place in Arcadia called Oresteion. The feminine forms are also given as Orestis and Orestias, as Theagenes himself, and Dionysius, book 2 of the Gigantiad.

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