Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Daulis: a city in Phokis, where the events concerning Prokne and Philomela took place. Homer: ‘Daulis and Panopeus’. ‘Daulon’ means wooded, and the city is densely wooded. Later writers call it ‘Δαύλεια’ [with proparoxytone stress and written with a diphthong]. Pausanias, book 10: ‘after the nymph Daulis’. Hence it is also called ‘Daulis’. A citizen is a ‘Daulieus’: ‘The Daulieis have a sanctuary of Athena and an ancient image.’ The feminine is ‘Daulias’. ‘Daulios’ is also used. From ‘Daulis’ the ethnonym is ‘Daulidios’. ‘Δαυλίς’ is oxytone, but ‘αὖλις’ is barytone in Aeolic.
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Δαυλίς, πόλις Φωκίδος, ἐν ᾗ τὰ κατὰ Πρόκνην καὶ Φιλομήλαν. Ὅμηρος “Δαυλίδα καὶ Πανοπῆα”. δαῦλον δὲ τὸ δασύ· δασεῖα δὲ ἡ πόλις. οἱ δ´ ὕστερον Δαύλειάν φασι [προπαροξυτόνως καὶ διὰ διφθόγγου]. Παυσανίας δὲ δεκάτῳ “ἀπὸ νύμφης Δαυλίδος”. διὸ λέγεται καὶ Δαυλίς. ὁ πολίτης Δαυλιεύς “Δαυλιεῦσι δὲ ἱερὸν Ἀθηνᾶς καὶ ἄγαλμα ἀρχαῖον”. τὸ θηλυκὸν Δαυλιάς. λέγεται καὶ Δαύλιος. ἀπὸ δὲ τοῦ Δαυλίς τὸ ἐθνικὸν Δαυλίδιος. ὀξ…
… 'α' μακροῦ, ὀξύνεται, μηλίς ἡ μηλέα καὶ Μηλίς ἡ χώρα, δουλίς, Δαυλίς πόλις Φωκίδος. Ὅμηρος «Δαυλίδα καὶ Πανοπῆα» (Β 520). δαύλον δὲ τὸ δασύ. δασεῖα δὲ ἡ πόλις. Παυσανίας δὲ δεκάτῳ «ἀπὸ νύμφης Δαυλίδος» (c. 4, 7). οἱ δὲ ὕστερον Δαύλειάν φασι προπαροξυτόνως καὶ διὰ διφθόγγου. ἐναντιοῦται τὸ μαῦλις ἡ μάχαιρα καὶ τὸ τῆλις. τὸ δὲ τᾶλις ἡ μελλόγαμος τὸ 'α' μακρὸν ἔχει. Ἔτι βαρύνεται καὶ τὸ Βᾶλις πόλις Λιβύης πρὸς τῇ Κυρήνῃ, ἀπό τινος Βάλεως, οὗ καὶ ἱερὸν ἔχει. καὶ μᾶλις. καὶ Ἦλις πόλις πρὸς τῇ …