Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Eloros: a city of Sicily, from the river Eloros near Pachynos, which is said to have tame fish, eating from the hand, as Apollodoros in the first of the Chronika. There is also another of Macedonia. The citizen Elorites. Thucydides in the seventh also speaks of the Elorine road.
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.
Ἔλωρος, πόλις Σικελίας, ἀπὸ Ἐλώρου ποταμοῦ τοῦ κατὰ Πάχυνον, ὃς λέγεται τιθασοὺς ἰχθῦς ἔχειν, ἀπὸ χειρὸς ἐσθίοντας, ὡς Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν χρονικῶν πρώτῃ. ἔστι καὶ Μακεδονίας ἄλλη. ὁ πολίτης Ἐλωρίτης. Θουκυδίδης δὲ ἐν ἑβδόμῃ καὶ Ἐλωρίνην ὁδόν φησι.
…έγεται καὶ πληθυντικῶς «ἐν Ἀζώροις». Ῥιανὸς Ἀζώρειαν αὐτήν φησιν. Ἀννίχωρος ἔθνος πλησίον Περσῶν. λέγεται καὶ Ἀννίχωρ. Ἄωρος πόλις Κρήτης ἀπὸ Ἀώρας νύμφης. ἐκαλεῖτο καὶ Σάωρος. Γάζωρος πόλις Μακεδονίας. Ἔλωρος ποταμὸς ὁ κατὰ Πάχυνον, ὃς λέγεται τιθασοὺς ἰχθῦς ἔχειν ἀπὸ χειρὸς ἐσθίοντας, ὡς Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν χρονικῶν πρώτῃ. καὶ ἀπ´ αὐτοῦ Ἔλωρος πόλις Σικελίας. ἔστι καὶ Μακεδονίας ἄλλη. Θέστωρος πόλις Θρᾴκης. Θεόπομπος εἰκοστῇ δευτέρᾳ. Κασσάνωρος πόλις Αἰγυπτία, ἧς μέμνηται Ἐφορος κϛʹ. Κύτωρος ἢ Κύδωρος πόλις Παφλαγονίας ἀπὸ Κυτώρου τοῦ Φρ…