Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Hellas: a city of Thessaly. "Many Achaian women are there throughout Hellas and Phthia". It was founded by Hellen, not the son of Deukalion, but of Phthios and Chrysippe daughter of Iros. Phthios was of Achaios. There is also another city Hellas of Koile Syria. The ethnonym Hellen, like the primitive, and Hellenis the feminine, and Hellenikos, and Helladikos from Hellas.
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.
Ἑλλάς, πόλις Θεσσαλίας. “πολλαὶ Ἀχαΐδες εἰσὶν ἀν´ Ἑλλάδα τε Φθίην τε”. ἐκτίσθη ὑπὸ Ἕλληνος, οὐ τοῦ Δευκαλίωνος, ἀλλὰ τοῦ Φθίου καὶ Χρυσίππης τῆς Ἴρου. ὁ δὲ Φθῖος ἦν Ἀχαιοῦ. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πόλις Ἑλλάς κοίλης Συρίας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἕλλην ὁμοίως τῷ πρωτοτύπῳ, καὶ Ἑλληνίς τὸ θηλυκόν, καὶ Ἑλληνικός, καὶ Ἑλλαδικός ἀπὸ τῆς Ἑλλάδος.
Ἀρκάδας τὴν πόλιν, ἀλλ´ Ἀρκαδίαν φησί. Ὀλκάς ἔθνος Ἰβήρων τῶν ἐντὸς Ἴβηρος τοῦ ποταμοῦ. Πολύβιος ἐν τρίτῳ. Νουβάς ἔθνος Λιβύης παρὰ Νείλῳ, οἳ καὶ Νοῦβαι καὶ Νουβαῖοι λέγονται, Ἑλλάς πόλις Θεσσαλίας «πολλοὶ Ἀχαΐδες εἰσὶν ἂν Ἑλλάδα τε Φθίην τε» (Il. 9, 395). ἐκτίσθη ὑπὸ Ἕλληνος οὐ τοῦ Δευκαλίωνος, ἀλλὰ τοῦ Φθίου καὶ Χρυσίππου τοῦ Ἴρου. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πόλις Ἑλλάς κοίλης Συρίας. Παλλάς. ἐθάς. ἰκμάς παρὰ τὸ ἱκνεῖσθαι ἄνωθεν πρὸς ἡμᾶς ἀπὸ τοῦ Διὸς ὕοντος. μονάς. Ἐχινάς νῆσοι περὶ τὴν Αἰτωλίαν, αἳ καὶ Ἐχῖναι. λαμπάς. Δειράς δῆμος τῆς Λεοντίδος φ…