Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Sphekeia: Sphekeia, a city of Euboea. Lycophron: "the five somewhere to Sphekeia, to Kerastis". Cyprus was also called thus. The ethnonym 'Sphekes'. Cyprus Sphekeia and 'Kerasteia'.
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.
Σφήκεια, πόλις Εὐβοίας. Λυκόφρων “οἱ πέντε που Σφήκειαν εἰς Κεραστίδα”. οὕτω δὲ καὶ ἡ Κύπρος ἐκαλεῖτο. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Σφῆκες. Σφήκειαν δὲ καὶ Κεράστειαν τὴν Κύπρον.
…υ, ὡς Θουκυδίδης τετάρτῃ (c. 42). Στρατονίκεια πόλις Μακεδόνων πλησίον Καρίας, κέκληται δὲ ἀπὸ Στρατονίκης τῆς Ἀντιόχου γυναικός. ἔστι καὶ ἕτερον πολίχνιον πρὸς τῷ Ταύρῳ. Στρούθεια πόλις Φρυγίας ἐν τοῖς ὅροις Λυκαονίας. Σφήκεια πόλις Εὐβοίας. Λυκόφρων (v. 447) «οἱ πέντε που Σφήκειαν εἰς Κεραστίδα». οὕτω δὲ καὶ ἡ Κύπρος