Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Tnyssos: Tnyssos, a city of Caria. Hecataeus in Asia. The ethnonym 'Tnysseus' by the form of the country.
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.
Τνυσσός, πόλις Καρίας. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Τνυσσεύς τῷ τύπῳ τῆς χώρας.
…Λυδίας περὶ τὸν Κάϋστρον ποταμόν. ἔστι καὶ ἑτέρα πόλις ἐν Ἠπείρῳ μικρά. Ἠσσός πόλις Λοκρίδος. Ψησσός ἔθνος τῆς Ταυρινίας. Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν δευτέρῳ περὶ γῆς «ἔπειτα δ´ Ἑρμώνασσα καὶ Κῆπος πόλις, τρίτον δὲ τὸ Ψησσῶν ἔθνος». Τνυσσός πόλις Καρίας. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ. Βυσσός τὸ ἐθνικὸν καὶ ἡ νῆσος καὶ βυσσός ὁ βυθός, πεσσός. Ἰσσός πόλις μεταξὺ Συρίας καὶ Κιλικίας. δισσός, τρισσός, λισσός, κισσός. τὸ δὲ Κίσσος τὸ κύριον βαρύνεται. ὡσαύτως καὶ τὸ βύσσος τὸ θηλυκὸν προσηγορικὸν ἀφ´ οὗ …