Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Tabai, Tabae, Tabas, Tabay, ...+2 more">Tabai, Tabae, Tabas, Tabay, ...+2 more">Tabai, Tabae, Tabas, Tabay, ...+2 more">Tabai: a city in Lydia, about which the oracle says to the Pisidians: ‘that the renowned, free city of Tabai should be settled’. Apollonios too, in the ninth book: ‘they entreated them to bring them down to Tabai’. It is barytone, ‘Tabai’ as in ‘Sabai’, being a proper name and iambic. It was named after Tabos; Tabos was a hero. Some say that Kibyras and Marsyas were brothers, and that one founded the city Kibyra, the other Tabai, and named it from its being inhabited on a rock; for Greeks interpret ‘taba’ as ‘rock’. Some derive it after Tabenos the Argive. A citizen is a ‘Tabenos’ [as in ‘Gerenos’]. Hesiod: ‘among the horse-taming Gerenoi’. There is also another city, Tabai, in Karia, and a third in the Peraia, which Alexander, in his work on Syria, interprets as ‘good’.
Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.
… ὁ χρησμός φησι πρὸς Πισίδας “ἄστυ Ταβῶν ἐρικυδὲς ἐλευθερὸν οἰκίζεσθαι”. καὶ Ἀπολλώνιος ἐνάτῳ “ἐδεήθησαν ὅπως αὐτοὺς εἰς Τάβας καταγάγωσι”. βαρύνεται δέ, ὡς Σάβαι, κύριον καὶ ἰαμβικόν. ἐκλήθη δὲ ἀπὸ Τάβου. ὁ δὲ Τάβος ἥρως. οἱ δέ φασι τὸν Κιβύραν καὶ Μαρσύαν ἀδελφοὺς τὸν μὲν κτίσαι Κιβύραν πόλιν, τὸν δὲ Τάβας, καὶ καλέσαι ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐπὶ πέτρας οἰκεῖσθαι· τάβαν γὰρ τὴν πέτραν Ἕλληνες ἑρμηνεύουσιν. ἔνιοι ἀπὸ Ταβηνοῦ Ἀργείου. ὁ πολίτης Ταβηνός [ὡς Γερηνός]. Ἡσίοδος “παρ´ ἱπποδάμοισι Γερηνοῖς”. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πόλις Καρίας Τάβαι καὶ τρίτη τῆς Περαίας, ἣν Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τῷ περὶ Συρίας ἑρμηνεύει ἀγαθήν.
…. κέκληται δὲ ἀπὸ ἥρωος Ἄβα. Τάβαι πόλις Λυδίας, περὶ ὧν ὁ χρησμός φησι πρὸς Πισίδας »ἄστυ Ταβῶν ἐρικυδὲς ἐλεύθερον οἰκίζεσθαι«. καὶ Ἀπολλώνιος ἐνάτῳ »ἐδεήθησαν ὅπως αὐτοὺς εἰς Τάβας καταγάγωσι«. ἐκλήθη δὲ ἀπὸ Τάβου ἥρωος. οἱ δέ φασι τὸν Κιβύραν καὶ Μαρσύαν ἀδελφοὺς τὸν μὲν κτίσαι Κιβύραν πόλιν, τὸν δὲ Τάβας, καὶ καλέσαι ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐπὶ πέτρας οἰκεῖσθαι· τάβαν γὰρ τὴν πέτραν Ἕλληνες ἑρμηνεύουσιν. ἔνιοι ἀπὸ Ταβηνοῦ Ἀργείου. ἔστι καὶ ἄλλη πόλις Καρίας Τάβαι. καὶ τρίτη τῆς Περαίας, ἣν Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν τῷ περὶ Συρίας ἑρμηνεύει ἀγαθήν. Σάβαι πόλις μεγάλη πλησίον τῆς Ἐρυθρᾶς θαλάσσης. Λάβαι πόλις Χαττηνίας. Πολύβιος τρισκαιδεκάτῳ. βλάβη. ὀξύνεται…