Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Tracheia: Tracheia, so all Isauria. Strabo in the fourteenth book: "of Cilicia outside the Taurus, one part is called Tracheia, the other Pedias. The local form 'Tracheotes'. Its beginning is from Korakesion, while Pedias is from Soloi and Tarsus as far as Issos". And the local form of the latter even now is Pedianoi, though it ought to be Pedieis, as 'Sounieis'.
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.
Τραχεῖα, οὕτως ἡ Ἰσαυρία πᾶσα. Στράβων τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ “Κιλικίας δὲ τῆς ἔξω Ταύρου ἡ μὲν λέγεται τραχεῖα ἡ δὲ πεδιάς. τὸ τοπικὸν Τραχεώτης. ἀρχὴ δ´ αὐτῆς ἀπὸ Κορακησίου, ἡ πεδιὰς δὲ ἀπὸ Σόλων καὶ Ταρσοῦ μέχρι Ἰσσοῦ”. καί ἐστι τὸ ταύτης τοπικὸν ἔτι καὶ νῦν Πεδιανοί, ὀφεῖλον Πεδιεῖς ὡς Σουνιεῖς.
…ρυτόνων προπαροξύνεται, ἥμισυς ἡμίσεια, θῆλυς θήλεια. τὰ μέντοι ἀπὸ ὀξυτόνων προπερισπῶνται, ταχύς ταχεῖα, βραδύς βραδεῖα, πλατύς πλατεῖα. ἔστι δὲ καὶ Πλατεῖα νῆσος Λιβύης. τραχύς τραχεῖα. λέγεται δὲ καὶ ἡ Ἰσαυρία τραχεῖα. Στράβων τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτῃ »Κιλικίας δὲ τῆς ἔξω τοῦ Ταύρου ἡ μὲν λέγεται τραχεῖα, ἡ δὲ πεδιάς« καὶ ἡ Ἔφεσος Τρηχεῖα ἐκαλεῖτο. ὀξύς ὀξεῖα. εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ Ὀξεῖαι νῆσοι τῶν Ἐχινάδων, ἃς θοὰς ὁ ποιητὴς εἶπεν (Od. ο 299). πλὴν τοῦ λίγεια (ἔστι δὲ καὶ νῆσος) καὶ ἐλάχεια ἀπὸ τοῦ…