Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Is: a Persian city. Herodotos in the first. Where also a river Is, "whence the bitumen was brought for the wall in Babylon".
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.
Ἴς, πόλις Περσική. Ἡρόδοτος πρώτῃ. ἔνθα καὶ ποταμὸς Ἴς “ἔνθεν ἡ ἄσφαλτος ἐς τὸ ἐν Βαβυλῶνι τεῖχος ἐκομίσθη”.
…ὲ τὰ ἰσοσύλλαβα Δρῆς Τρῆς κύρια. ὡς δέ τινες βούλονται, καὶ τὸ Ζῆς. * Τὰ εἰς 'ις' μονοσύλλαβα φύσει εἰς 'ς' λήγοντα ὀξύνεται ὁμοίως τοῖς εἰς 'ιν' τροπὴν τοῦ 'ν' εἰς 'ς' ἀναδεξαμένοις οἷον ἴν ἴς, ῥίν ῥίς. εἰσὶ δὲ σπάνια. Ἴς πόλις Περσική. Ἡρόδοτος πρώτῃ (c. 179)· ἔνθα καὶ ποταμὸς Ἴς οὕτω καὶ Σκύμνος ἐν τῷ ιʹ τῆς Ἀσίας περίπλῳ παρέθετο· »ἔχεται Κελένδερις πόλις Σαμίων, καὶ ἱερὸν παρὰ τῇ πόλει Ἥρης καὶ ἄλσος· Ἲς ποταμὸς παρὰ θάλασσαν ἔξεισιν«. Ἔστιν Ἴς τῆς Ἰταλίας, ὡς Πάρθαξ ἐν τῷ βʹ τῶν Ἰταλικῶν. »Ἐ…