Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Istros: a city of Crete, which Artemidoros calls Istron. Second, a city Istros in the Pontos. The ethnonym Istrios and Istrieus. Arrian calls it Istria as 'Olbia'. The ethnonym of this Istrianos as 'Olbianos', and by change Istrian harbour and Istrianis, in the feminine. Third, an island having a homonymous city near the Triopion of the Knidian territory. Fourth a city of Iapygia, as Ephoros in the twenty-ninth.
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.
…Ἰστρῶνά φησι. δευτέρα πόλις Ἴστρος ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἴστριος καὶ Ἰστριεύς. Ἀρριανὸς δὲ Ἰστρίαν ὡς Ὀλβίαν αὐτήν φησι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν ταύτης Ἰστριανός ὡς Ὀλβιανός, καὶ κατὰ τροπὴν Ἰστριηνὸς λιμήν καὶ Ἰστριανίς, θηλυκῶς. τρίτη νῆσος πόλιν ὁμώνυμον ἔχουσα κατὰ τὸ Τριόπιον τῆς Κνιδίας. τετάρτη πόλις τῆς Ἰαπυγίας, ὡς Ἔφορος εἰκοστῷ ἐνάτῳ.
… Ἀκάμαντος. Λεῦκτρος, οἶστρος, βόστρος, Ἴστρος ἔθνος ἐν τῷ Ἰονίῳ κόλπῳ. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. ἔστι δὲ καὶ πόλις Κρήτης, ἣν Ἀρτεμίδωρος Ἰστρῶνά φησι. δευτέρα πόλις Ἴστρος ἐν τῷ Πόντῳ. Ἀρριανὸς δὲ Ἰστρίαν ὡς Ὀλβίαν αὐτήν φησι. τρίτη νῆσος πόλιν ὁμώνυμον ἔχουσα κατὰ τὸ Τριόπιον τῆς Κνιδίας. τετάρτη πόλις τῆς Ἰαπυγίας, ὡς Ἔφορος εἰκοστῷ ἐνάτῳ. ἔστι καὶ ποταμός. Βάκτρος ἔθνος. τὸ δὲ δαιτρός ὀξύνεται καὶ τὸ οἰκτρός, ἔτι καὶ τὸ φιτρός ὁ κορμός. Τὰ εἰς δύο 'ρρ' ἐπιθετικὰ ὄντα ὀξύνεται, στερρός, πυρρός τὸ ἐπίθετον. Πύρρος δὲ τὸ κύριον ὥσπερ καὶ τὸ ῎Υρρος καὶ Γέρρ…