Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Trapezous: Trapezous, a city on the Euxine Sea, a colony of the Sinopeans. It was also called 'Oizenis'. In it Aristotle in the work On Marvellous Things Heard says that strong-smelling honey is produced from the boxwood, from which those who eat it, if healthy, become deranged, while epileptics are immediately relieved. There is also a city of Arcadia, Trapezous, from Trapezous son of Lykaon, as Pausanias in the eighth book. There is also another near the Arabian Gulf. The citizen 'Trapezountios', as 'Selinountios', and the territory Trapezountia. It is also said 'Trapezousios', as 'Amathousios'.
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.
Τραπεζοῦς, πόλις πρὸς τῷ Εὐξείνῳ πόντῳ, Σινωπέων ἄποικος. ἐκαλεῖτο καὶ Οἰζηνίς· ἐν ταύτῃ μέλι ἀπὸ τῆς πύξου φησὶν Ἀριστοτέλης γίνεσθαι ἐν τῷ περὶ θαυμασίων ἀκουσμάτων βαρύοσμον, ἀφ´ οὗ τοὺς φαγόντας ὑγιαίνοντας μὲν ἐξίστασθαι, τοὺς δ´ ἐπιλήπτους εὐθέως ἀπαλλ…
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