Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Epidamnos: a city of Illyria, on the peninsula called Dyrrachion. There is another on the Ionian gulf. The ethnonym Epidamnios. It is found in Parthenios also with the diphthong. The feminine Epidamnias.
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.
Ἐπίδαμνος, πόλις Ἰλλυρίας, ἐπὶ χερρονήσου τῆς καλουμένης Δυρραχίου. ἔστι δ´ ἑτέρα ἐν τῷ Ἰονίῳ κόλπῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἐπιδάμνιος. εὕρηται παρὰ Παρθενίῳ καὶ διὰ διφθόγγου. τὸ θηλυκὸν Ἐπιδαμνιάς.
… Λίσσος ἐστὶ πόλις καὶ Ἀκρόλισσος καὶ Ἐπίδαμνος Κερκυραίων κτίσμα, ἡ νῦν Δυρράχιον ὁμωνύμως τῇ χερρονήσῳ λεγομένη, ἐφ´ ἧς ἵδρυται». Ἐρατοσθένης γʹ γεωγραφουμένων «ἐχόμενοι δ´ οἰκοῦσι Ταυλάντιοι. πόλις δὲ Ἑλληνὶς Ἐπίδαμνος ἐπὶ χερρονήσου τῆς καλουμένης Δυρραχίου. ποταμοὶ δὲ Δρίλων καὶ Ἀῷος, περὶ οὓς οἱ Κάδμου καὶ Ἁρμονίας τάφοι δείκνυνται». λέγει δὲ Παυσανίας ϛʹ (c. 10, 8) περὶ τῆς ἀρχαίας καὶ τῆς νῦν πόλεως οὕτως «Ἐπιδάμνιοι μὲν χώραν ἥνπερ καὶ ἐξ ἀρχῆς, πόλιν δὲ αὐτὴν ἀρχαίαν…