Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Pelekes: a deme of the Leontid tribe. The demesman Pelex. The locatives in Peleki, to Peleka, from Pelekon. And this is remarkable, that the deme is said in the plural but the locatives in the singular.
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.
Πήληκες, δῆμος Λεοντίδος φυλῆς. ὁ δημότης Πήληξ. τὰ τοπικὰ ἐν Πήληκι εἰς Πήληκα ἐκ Πηλήκων. καὶ θαυμαστὸν τοῦτο, ὅτι ὁ δῆμος πληθυντικῶς λέγεται, ἑνικῶς δὲ τὰ τοπικά.
ὁ δὲ δῆμος πληθυντικῶς λέγεται, ἑνικῶς δὲ τὰ τοπικὰ ἐν Πήληκι εἰς Πήληκα. Τὰ εἰς 'ηξ' σύνθετα παρὰ ῥῆμα ὀξύνεται, εἰ ἐπιθετικὰ εἴη, βουπλήξ, κωμοπλήξ, κυματοπλήξ καὶ κυμοπλήξ, μεθυπλήξ, οἰστροπλήξ, παραπλήξ, λαοπλήξ, ἀκανθοπλήξ, βουπλήξ, μολυβδοτήξ, ὅ τινες βαρύνουσι παρ…