Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Dorion: a city, one of the three that Homer mentions: ‘and Pteleas, Pteleum, Ptelleon">Pteleon and Helos and Dorion.’ Dikaiarchos says that these are four, and calls one of them Pteleai, not Pteleon, in book 1 of his Life of Greece: ‘and of the Dorians dwelling in the Pelasgiotis region, a certain part together with those in the outermost parts, of those who set out for Crete,...’
... the one formerly called Doris... he settled;... later those with... in the Peloponnese...; and the... in the plain... Epaphroditos... in Dorion near Messenê, as Dositheos says, Thamyras discovered harmony and named the city after it Dorion; and that this is the system with which he first made a display at Delphi.
... with this system... called the others... for... after whom... The ethnonym is ‘Doros’. Also ‘Dorieus’, as in ‘Sounieus’.... they were minded to send out the colony, wishing both to assist the Trachinians and to take vengeance for the Dorians. Herodotus in book 1, about the Dorian people, says it was very much a wanderer, calling it so and showing it thus: ‘and it was indeed very much a wanderer: in the time of King Deukalion it inhabited Phthiotis; in the time of Doros son of Hellen the land beneath Ossa and Olympos called Histiaiotis; from Histiaiotis, when it was driven out by the Kadmeians, it inhabited Pindos, called Makednon; from there again it moved to Dryopis; and from Dryopis thus coming to the Peloponnese it was called Dorian.’ The Cretans too were called Dorians: ‘the Dorians in three tribes and the divine Pelasgians.’ Concerning whom Andron relates: when Kret was king on the island, Tektaphos son of Doros son of Hellen, setting out from what in Thessaly was then called Doris but is now called Histiaiotis, arrived in Crete with Dorians and Achaians and Pelasgians who did not sail off to Tyrrhenia. Charax mentions the Thessalian Doris in book 7, writing as follows about Thessalos son of Aiatos, who defeated the Boiotians in Arnê: ‘Thessalos did not even change the name of the fourth portion, but allowed it to be called Histiaiotis as before. It lies to the west of Pindos. Doros son of Hellen had it at first by lot, and it used earlier to be called after him Doris, but later it was renamed Histiaiotis.’
Stephanos excerpt (left) is aligned with matched Herodian passages (right). Colors indicate corresponding overlap spans.
…ιώτιδος καλουμένης, ἀφικέσθαι εἰς Κρήτην μετὰ Δωριέων τε καὶ Ἀχαιῶν καὶ Πελασγῶν τῶν οὐκ ἀπαράντων εἰς Τυρρηνίαν. μέμνηται τῆς Δωρίδος τῆς Θετταλικῆς Χάραξ ἐν ζʹ τῇδε γράφων περὶ Θεσσαλοῦ τοῦ Αἰάτου, [τοῦ] νικήσαντος τοὺς ἐν Ἄρνῃ Βοιωτούς “ὁ δὲ Θεσσαλὸς οὐδὲ τὴν τετάρτην μοῖραν τῆς ἐπωνυμίας μετέβαλεν, ἀλλ´ Ἱστιαιῶτιν αὐτὴν ὡς πρὶν καλεῖσθαι εἴασε. κεῖται δὲ πρὸς δυσμῶν τῆς Πίνδου. Δῶρος δὲ αὐτὴν ὁ Ἕλληνος εἰλήχει τὰ πρῶτα καὶ Δωρὶς ἀπ´ ἐκείνου ἐκαλεῖτο πρότερον, ὕστερον δὲ Ἱστιαιῶτις μετωνομάσθη”.
…ὰ εἰς 'ρις' δισύλλαβα ὑποκοριστικὰ ἢ πατρωνυμικῆς ἐννοίας ἐχόμενα ὀξύνεται, Τευκρίς ἡ Τροία, Δωρίς ἡ περὶ τὸν Παρνασσὸν καὶ ἡ ὕστερον Ἱστιαιῶτις, ἧς μέμνηται Χάραξ ἐν ζʹ τῇδε γράφων περὶ Θεσσαλοῦ τοῦ Αἰάτου τοῦ νικήσαντος ἐν Ἄρνῃ Βοιωτούς «ὁ δὲ Θεσσαλὸς οὐδὲ τὴν τετάρτην μοῖραν τῆς ἐπωνυμίας μετέβαλεν, ἀλλ´ Ἱστιαιῶτιν αὐτὴν ὡς πρὶν καλεῖσθαι εἴασε. κεῖται δὲ πρὸς δυσμῶν τῆς Πίνδου. Δῶρος δὲ αὐτὴν ὁ Ἕλληνος εἰλήχει τὰ πρῶτα καὶ Δωρὶς ἀπ´ ἐκείνου ἐκαλεῖτο πρότερον, ὕστερον δὲ Ἱστιαιῶτις μετωνομάσθη». Νευρίς χώρα Σαρματίας. πατρίς, χειρίς, καρίς παρὰ τὸ κάρη καὶ Καρίς ἀπὸ τῆς Καρός γενικῆς. Καρίς δὲ ἐλέγετο ἡ Κῶς, ὡς Ἑλλάνικος. ἔστι δὲ καὶ Φρυγίας πόλις Καρίς καὶ Καρίδες. * Τὰ εἰς 'ρις' δισύλλαβα ἑνὶ φωνήεντι ἢ διφ…
Δώριον, πόλις μία τῶν τριῶν ὧν Ὅμηρος μνημονεύει “καὶ Πτελεὸν καὶ Ἕλος καὶ Δώριον”. Δικαίαρχος δὲ τέτταρας ταύτας εἶναί φησι, καὶ Πτελέας, οὐ Πτελεόν τὴν μίαν καλεῖ, κατὰ τὸ πρῶτον τοῦ βίου τῆς Ἑλλάδος βιβλίον “τῶν δ´ ἐν τῇ Πελασγιώτιδι χώρᾳ Δωριέων κατοικούντων μέρος τι μετὰ τῶν ἐν ταῖς ἐσχάταις . .…
…Δαυνίου τ´ ᾠκισμένην». Οἴνιον. Σέστιον πόλις ἐν μεσογείᾳ Οἰνωτρῶν. Αἴγιον πόλις Ἀχαΐας, ὡς Εὔδοξος ἐν ἕκτῃ. Σούνιον δῆμος Λεοντίδος φυλῆς. Ὅμηρος δὲ ἄκρον καλεῖ «ἀλλ´ ὅτε Σούνιον ἄκρον» (Od. γ 278). Δώριον πόλις Μεσσηνίας μία τῶν τριῶν, ὧν Ὅμηρος μνημονεύει «καὶ Πτελεὸν καὶ Ἕλος καὶ Δώριον» (Β 594). Πύθιον τὸ πάλαι μεσαίτατον τῆς ἐν Κρήτῃ Γόρτυνος. καὶ Μακεδονίας Πύθιον, ἐν ᾧ καὶ τὰ Πύθια ἐπιτελεῖται. ἔστι καὶ Πύθιον πλησίον τοῦ Ἀστακηνοῦ κόλπου. Ἄκτιον πόλις Ἀκαρνάνων πρώτη ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀμβρακικοῦ κόλπου ἀρξα…
Δώριον, πόλις μία τῶν τριῶν ὧν Ὅμηρος μνημονεύει “καὶ Πτελεὸν καὶ Ἕλος καὶ Δώριον”. Δικαίαρχος δὲ τέτταρας ταύτας εἶναί φησι, καὶ Πτελέας, οὐ Πτελεόν τὴν μίαν καλεῖ, κατὰ τὸ πρῶτον τοῦ βίου τῆς Ἑλλάδος βιβλίον “τῶν δ´ ἐν τῇ Πελασγιώτιδι χώρᾳ Δωριέων κατοικούντων μέρος τι μετὰ τῶν ἐν ταῖς ἐσχάταις . .…
…βάλλον δ´ εἰν ἐλεοῖσιν«, στελεόν, ὃ καὶ στελειόν λέγεται ποιητικῶς, καὶ στελεός, κολεόν ἢ κουλεόν. Πτελεόν πόλις Ἰωνίας καὶ Τρῳάδος καὶ τῶν περὶ Θετταλίαν Ἀχαιῶν. καλεῖται δὲ ὅτι πολλὰς ἔχει πτελέας· ἔστι δὲ καὶ Μεσσηνίας, μία τῶν τριῶν, ὧν Ὅμηρος μνημονεύει »καὶ Πτελεὸν καὶ Ἕλος καὶ Δώριον« (Β 594). Δικαίαρχος δὲ τέτταρας ταύτας εἶναί φησι καὶ Πτελέας οὐ Πτελεόν κατὰ τὸ πρῶτον τοῦ βίου τῆς Ἑλλάδος βιβλίον. εἰ δὲ μὴ ἔχουσι τὸ 'λε', προπαροξύνονται, ὄστρεον, ὃ καὶ ὄστρειον λέγεται, ὄρνεον, δένδρεον, ὤεον, ὅ…
Δώριον, πόλις μία τῶν τριῶν ὧν Ὅμηρος μνημονεύει “καὶ Πτελεὸν καὶ Ἕλος καὶ Δώριον”. Δικαίαρχος δὲ τέτταρας ταύτας εἶναί φησι, καὶ Πτελέας, οὐ Πτελεόν τὴν μίαν καλεῖ, κατὰ τὸ πρῶτον τοῦ βίου τῆς Ἑλλάδος βιβλίον “τῶν δ´ ἐν τῇ Πελασγιώτιδι χώρᾳ Δωριέων κατοικούντων μέρος τι μετὰ τῶν ἐν ταῖς ἐσχάταις . .…
…ὸ οὐδέτερον γένος. δῆλον οὖν ὡς τὸ κάλλος πεπλάνηται ἢ περὶ ποσότητα τοῦ 'λ' ἢ περὶ τὸ γένος. ὅσα γὰρ οὐδέτερά ἐστιν εἰς 'ος' λήγοντα, ταῦτα παραιτεῖται ἔχειν ἕτερον 'λ', ὡς τὸ ἕλος—ἔστι καὶ πόλις Λακωνικὴ καὶ Μεσσηνίς «καὶ Πτελεὸν καὶ Ἕλος καὶ Δώριον» (Β 594) παρὰ τὸ ἐν ἕλει εἶναι· ἔστι καὶ Ἕλος Αἰγύπτου. ἔστι δὲ καὶ τόπος μεταξὺ τοῦ Πειραιέως καὶ τοῦ τετρακώμου Ἡρακλείου, ἐν ᾧ τοὺς γυμνικοὺς ἀγῶνας ἐτίθεσαν τοῖς παναθηναίοις— θάλος «φίλου θάλος» (Χ 87). —σκέλος, βέ…