Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Dyrrhachion: a city of Illyria, called Epidamnos after Epidamnos. His daughter was Melissa, and from her and Poseidon came Dyrrhachios; from her there is in Epidamnos a place called Melissonios, where Poseidon had intercourse with her, as Philo says.
After the Rhizonian gulf, there is the city of Lissos and Akrolissos and …Epidamnos, a foundation of the Kerkyraians, now Dyrrhachion, named homonymously after the peninsula so called, on which it is established … Dexippos too, in book 1 of his Chronika, says as follows: '… and of the Macedonians, formerly Epidamnos, but later renamed Dyrrhachion …
. Alexander, in his Europa, calls it Dysrachion with sigma: 'and Epidamnos of Dysrachion on the shore of the sea-coast'. There is also another in Lakonia, one of the hundred. And the region of Illyria Dysrachia, of which the masculine is 'Dysrachios'. But now they are called 'Dyrrhacheni', as Herennios Philo in the Iatroi: 'Philonides the Dyrrhachenian listened to Asclepiades, and after practising medicine in his homeland with distinction compiled books with me …'. It is clear that 'Dyrrhachios' is its masculine, as from Anaktorion Anaktorios, Byzantion Byzantios, Thourion Thourios, Kourion Kourios. Eratosthenes in book 3 of his Geographoumena: 'Next to them dwell the Taulantii. And there is a Greek city, Epidamnos, on a peninsula called Dyrrhachion. The rivers are Drilon and Aoos, around which the tombs of Kadmos and Harmonia are pointed out.' Yet now they are called Dyrrhacheni. For so too Balakros in his Makedonika says: 'and their cities have been distributed among the Dyrrhacheni and the Apolloniatai.' And Herennios Philo in the Iatroi records Philonides as Dyrrhachenian as follows: 'Asclepiades had as hearers Titus Aufidius the Sicilian and Philonides the Dyrrhachenian and Nicon the Akragantine.' And again: 'Philonides the Dyrrhachenian listened to Asclepiades, and after practising medicine in his homeland with distinction compiled books with me.' Pausanias in book 6 says about the ancient and the present-day city as follows: 'The Epidamnians have the territory which they had from the beginning, but in our time they do not have the ancient city; rather, they have one that stands a little apart from it; and the city’s name is Dyrrhachion, from its founder.'
Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.