Δυσπόντιον

Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika

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city
Entry #144
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: - | Billerbeck: Δ144
OCR: gemini-constrained (gemini-3-flash-preview) on 2025-12-22
Word count: 72
AI prompt: v1
Sources: Φλέγων (Phlegon) FGrHist 257 F 4; FGrHist 257 F 6, Τρύφων (Tryphon) fr. 87 Velsen [Παρωνύμοις]
Entities: Δυσπόντιον (Dyspontion (city of Dyspontion)) [place], Πισαίς (Pisatis (district of Pisa)) [place], Δύσποντος (Dyspon(t)us (son of Pelops)) [person], Πέλοψ (Pelops) [person], Ἦλις (Elis) [place], Ὀλυμπία (Olympia) [place], Ἀντίμαχος (Antimachus) [person], Δάιππος (Daippos) [person], Ἠλεῖοι (Eleans) [people], Δυσποντεῖς (Dysponteans (inhabitants of Dyspontion)) [people]
Etymologies: Eponym Person: From Dyspontus, son of Pelops; Eponym Person: After (from) Pelops' son Dyspontus; Eponym Person: The people called 'Dysponteis' (otherwise 'Dyspontieis') are named from the city Dyspontion, which in turn is from Pelops' son Dyspontus
Place: Dyspontium | 📍 Map
Source: vol2_117.jpg
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Δυσπόντιον, πόλις Πισαίας, ἀπὸ Δυσπόντου τοῦ Πέλοπος, παρὰ τὴν ὁδὸν τὴν ἐξ Ἤλιδος εἰς Ὀλυμπίαν. ἀπὸ ταύτης Ἀντίμαχος ἦν ὀλυμπιονίκης νικήσας [ἐν ὀλυμπιάδι] στάδιον. Φλέγων ἐν ὀλυμπιάδι βʹ “Ἀντίμαχος Ἠλεῖος ἐκ Δυσποντίου στάδιον”. καὶ ἐν κζʹ “Δάιππος Κροτωνιάτης πύξ, Ἠλείων ἐκ Δυσποντίου τέθριππον”. μέμνηται δ´ αὐτῆς καὶ Τρύφων ἐν παρωνύμοις γράφων οὕτως τὸ ἐθνικόν “οἱ δὲ Δυσποντεῖς οὐ παρὰ τὴν πόλιν Δυσπόντιον καλοῦνται (ἐλέγοντο γὰρ Δυσποντιεῖς), παρὰ δὲ τὸν Πέλοπος υἱὸν Δύσποντον”.
Dysponteion: a city of Pisaia, named after Dyspon(t)os son of Pelops, on the road from Elis to Olympia. From this place came Antimachos, an Olympic victor, having won the stadion race. Phlegon, in the 2nd Olympiad (FGrHist 257 F 4): “Antimachos of Elis, from Dysponteion, (won) the stadion.” And in the 27th (FGrHist 257 F 6): “Daippos of Croton, boxing; <***>; (and one of the) Eleians from Dysponteion, four-horse chariot.” Tryphon too mentions it in the Paronyms (fr. 87 Velsen), writing the ethnic-name as follows: “But the Dysponteioi are not so called from the city Dysponteion (for they would have been called Dyspontieis), but from Dyspon(t)os, son of Pelops.”

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