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Entry #150
Greek source: meineke
Meineke: 254.20 | Billerbeck: Δ150
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Word count: 304
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Sources: Ἑκαταῖος (Hecataeus) FGrHist 1 F 275 [Ἀσίᾳ], Ἰώσηπος (Josephus) 5,83; 5,87; 6,330 [Ἰουδαϊκῆς ἱστορίας], Κλαύδιος Ἰόλαος (Claudius Iolaos) FGrHist 788 F 2 [Φοινικικῶν], Ἀρτεμίδωρος (Artemidorus) Epit. fr. 15 Stiehle [Ἐπιτομῇ τῶν ια], Ἀπολλόδωρος (Apollodorus) FGrHist 244 F 19 [Χρονικῶν], Ἀλέξανδρος (Alexander) SH 29 [Ἀσίᾳ], Χάραξ (Charax) FGrHist 103 F 29, Παυσανίας (Pausanias) FGrHist 854 F 1, Κρατερός / Κρατερος (Craterus) (Craterus) FGrHist 342 F 1 [Περὶ ψηφισμάτων]
Entities: Δῶρος (Doros / Dora) [place], Φοινίκη (Phoenicia) [place], Στράτων (Straton) [person], Κάρμηλος (Mount Carmel) (Mount Carmel) [place], Τρύφων (Tryphon) [person], Συρία (Syria) [place], Ἀντίοχος (Antiochus) [person], Πτολεμαΐς (Ptolemais) [place], Ἄκη (Ake (place)) [place], Ποσειδῶν (Poseidon) [deity], Δωρίτης (Dorian (inhabitant of Dor)) [people], Στάγειρα (Stageira) [place], Σταγειρίτης (Stageirite (inhabitant of Stageira)) [people], Σκύρος (Skyros) [place], Σκιρίτης (Skiritēs (inhabitant of Skyros)) [people], Κόπτος (Coptos) [place], Κοπτίτης (Coptite (inhabitant of Coptos)) [people], Δίολκος (Diolkos) [place], Διολκίτης (Diolkite (inhabitant of Diolkos)) [people], Τύριοι (Tyrians) [people], Ἀσκαλωνῖται (Ascalonites (inhabitants of Ascalon)) [people], Δωριεῖς (Dorians) [people], Ῥαφανεῶται (Raphaneōtai (inhabitants of Raphane?)) [people], Καρία (Caria) [place], Φασηλῖται (Phaselites) [people], Χήσιος (Chēsios (name in text)) [person], Χησιεύς (Chēsieus (demonym derived from Χήσιος)) [people]
Etymologies: Morphological Composition: Formerly called 'Δῶρος' (Dōros), now called 'Δῶρα' (Dōra).; Borrowing Non Greek: They (the Phoenicians) called it 'Δώρ' in their native language.; Morphological Composition: The Greeks, for the sake of pleasant/euphonic sound, call the city 'Δῶρα'.; Eponym Person: Some historians relate that Dōron was founded by Poseidon (i.e., Poseidon as its founder/eponym).; Morphological Composition: The ethnicon 'Δωρίτης' applies to both endings: for Δῶρα it's 'Δωρίτης' (as Σταγεῖρα→Σταγειρίτης), and for Δῶρος likewise 'Δωρίτης'.; Unclear Metalinguistic: Thus there is (beside) Dōron the Dōrion, from which the ethnicon 'Δωριεύς' would be (i.e., the name 'Δωριεύς' would derive).
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Δῶρος, πόλις Φοινίκης. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ “μετὰ δὲ ἡ πάλαι Δῶρος νῦν δὲ Δῶρα καλεῖται”. καὶ οὕτως Ἰώσηπος αὐτὴν καλεῖ ἐν εʹ τῆς Ἰουδαϊκῆς ἱστορίας “ἀπὸ μὲν Ἰορδάνου μέχρι Δώρων πόλεως”. καὶ πάλιν “Ἀζώτῳ καὶ Δώροις ὁριζόμενοι”. καὶ ἐν ϛʹ “εἶναί τι γύναιον ἐν πόλει Δώρῳ”. καὶ πάλιν “ὅτε ἤνεγκεν εἰς τὴν Δῶρον”. καὶ Κλαύδιος Ἰούλιος ἐν γʹ Φοινικικῶν “μετὰ Καισάρειαν Δῶρα κεῖται βραχεῖα πολίχνη, Φοινίκων αὐτὴν οἰκούντων, οἳ διὰ τὸ ὑπόπετρον τῶν τε αἰγιαλῶν καὶ τὸ πορφύρας γόνιμον συνελθόντες καλιὰς αὐτοῖς ᾠκοδομήσαντο καὶ περιβαλόμενοι χάρακας, ὡς ὑπήκουεν αὐτοῖς τὰ τῆς ἐργασίας, τεμνόμενοι τὰς πέτρας διὰ τῶν ἐξαιρουμένων λίθων τὰ τείχη κατεβάλοντο καὶ τὴν εὔορμον χηλὴν ὅπως [οἷόν] τε ἀσφαλῶς ἔθεντο, ἐπώνυμον αὐτὴν τῇ πατρίῳ γλώσσῃ Δώρ καλοῦντες. οἱ δ´ Ἕλληνες χάριν τοῦ τῆς φωνῆς εὐπροφόρου καλεῖν ἀρκοῦνται Δῶρα τὴν πόλιν. καί τινες ἱστοροῦσι Δῶρον τὸν Ποσειδῶνος οἰκιστὴν αὐτῆς γεγονέναι”. καὶ Ἀρτεμίδωρος Δῶρα τὴν πόλιν οἶδεν ἐν ἐπιτομῇ τῶν ιαʹ “συνεχῶς δ´ ἐστὶ Στράτωνος πύργος, εἶτα ἔνι Δῶρα ἐπὶ χερσονησοειδοῦς τόπου κείμενον πολισμάτιον, ἀρχομένου τοῦ ὄρους τοῦ Καρμήλου”. καὶ ἐν θʹ γεωγραφουμένων τὸ αὐτό. Ἀπολλόδωρος δὲ Δῶρον καλεῖ ἐν χρονικῶν δʹ “εἰς Δῶρον οὖσαν ἐπιθαλάττιον πόλιν”. καὶ Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν Ἀσίᾳ “Δῶρός τ´ ἀγχίαλός τ´ Ἰόπη προύχουσα θαλάσσης”. καὶ Χάραξ ιαʹ “Τρύφων ἐν Δώρῳ τῆς κοίλης Συρίας πόλει πολιορκούμενος ὑπ´ Ἀντιόχου ἔφυγεν εἰς Πτολεμαΐδα τὴν Ἄκην λεγομένην”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Δωρίτης, ὃ καὶ ταῖς δύο καταλήξεσιν ἀναλογεῖ, τῇ μὲν Δῶρα Δωρίτης, ὡς Στάγειρα Σταγειρίτης, ὡς εἴρηται, τῆς δὲ Δῶρος ὁμοίως Δωρίτης, [ὡς] Σκίρος Σκιρίτης, χῶρος χωρίτης, μέσος μεσίτης, Κοπτός Κοπτίτης, Δίολκος Διολκίτης. Παυσανίας δὲ ἐν τῇ τῆς πατρίδος αὐτοῦ κτίσει Δωριεῖς αὐτοὺς καλεῖ τῇδε γράφων “Τύριοι Ἀσκαλωνῖται Δωριεῖς Ῥαφανεῶται”, ὥστε παρὰ τὴν Δῶρον τὸ Δώριον εἶναι, οὗ ἂν εἴη τὸ Δωριεύς, ὡς τοῦ Χήσιον τὸ Χησιεύς. ἔστι καὶ Καρίας Δῶρος πόλις, ἣν συγκαταλέγει ταῖς πόλεσιν ταῖς Καρικαῖς Κρατερὸς ἐν τῷ περὶ ψηφισμάτων τρίτῳ “Καρικὸς φόρος· Δῶρος, Φασηλῖται”.

Dōros: a city of Phoenicia. Hecataeus in the Asia (FGrHist 1 F 275): “and after it [comes] the city formerly called Dōros, but now called Dōra.” Josephus too calls it thus in Book 5 of the Jewish History (5.83): “from the Jordan as far as the city of Dōra”; and again (5.87): “bordering on Azotus and Dōra”; and in Book 6 (6.330): “that there was a certain woman in the city of Dōros”; and again (6.330): “when he came to Dōros.” Claudius Iolaus in Book 3 of the Phoenician Matters (FGrHist 788 F 2): “after Caesarea lies Dōra, a small town, inhabited by Phoenicians. Because of the rocky nature of the shores and the abundance of purple-fish, they gathered and built huts for themselves; and after they had enclosed them with palisades, as their operations allowed, by cutting into the rocks and removing stones they threw down the walls, and, as far as possible, made the well-harboured bay secure, calling it in their ancestral language Dōr. The Greeks, for the sake of ease of pronunciation, are content to call the city Dōra. And some record that Dōros, a son of Poseidon, became its founder.” Artemidorus knows the city as Dōra in the Epitomē of the eleven books (Epit. fr. 15 Stiehle): “next in continuous sequence is Straton’s Tower, then there is Dōra, a small town lying on a peninsula-like site, where Mount Carmel begins”; and in Book 9 of the Geōgraphoumena (fr. 111 Stiehle) the same. Apollodorus, however, calls it Dōros in Book 4 of the Chronicles (FGrHist 244 F 19): “to Dōros, a city on the sea.” And Alexander in the Asia (SH 29): “and Dōros and Iopē, both near the sea, projecting into the deep.” Charax, Book 11 (FGrHist 103 F 29): “Tryphon, besieged by Antiochus in Dōros, a city of Coele Syria, fled to Ptolemais, called Akē.” The ethnic is Dōritēs, which also conforms by analogy to both endings: from Dōra, Dōritēs, as Stageira → Stageiritēs (as has been said); and from Dōros likewise Dōritēs, as Skyros → Skyritēs, chōros → chōritēs, mesos → mesitēs, Koptos → Koptitēs, Diolkos → Diolkitēs. Pausanias, however, in the Foundation of his Homeland (FGrHist 854 F 1) calls them Dōrieis, writing thus: “Tyrians, Ascalonites, Dōrieis, Raphaneōtai,” so that from Dōros one should have Dōrion, from which would come Dōrieus, as from Chēsion [comes] Chēsi(e)us. There is also a Dōros, a city of Caria, which Craterus includes among the Carian cities in Book 3 of On Decrees (FGrHist 342 F 1): “Carian tribute: Dōros; the Phaselites.”

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Herodian 1.192

char LCS 197 (15.0%) · word LCS 38 (14.2%)

Stephanos

…ν οἶδεν ἐν ἐπιτομῇ τῶν ιαʹ “συνεχῶς δ´ ἐστὶ Στράτωνος πύργος, εἶτα ἔνι Δῶρα ἐπὶ χερσονησοειδοῦς τόπου κείμενον πολισμάτιον, ἀρχομένου τοῦ ὄρους τοῦ Καρμήλου”. καὶ ἐν θʹ γεωγραφουμένων τὸ αὐτό. Ἀπολλόδωρος δὲ Δῶρον καλεῖ ἐν χρονικῶν δʹ “εἰς Δῶρον οὖσαν ἐπιθαλάττιον πόλιν”. καὶ Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν Ἀσίᾳ “Δῶρός τ´ ἀγχίαλός τ´ Ἰόπη προύχουσα θαλάσσης”. καὶ Χάραξ ιαʹ “Τρύφων ἐν Δώρῳ τῆς κοίλης Συρίας πόλει πολιορκούμενος ὑπ´ Ἀντιόχου ἔφυγεν εἰς Πτολεμαΐδα τὴν Ἄκην λεγομένην”. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Δωρίτης, ὃ καὶ ταῖς δύο καταλήξεσιν ἀναλογεῖ, τῇ μὲν Δῶρα Δωρίτης, ὡς Στάγειρα Σταγειρίτης, ὡς εἴρηται, τῆς δὲ Δῶρος ὁμοίως Δωρίτης, [ὡς] Σκίρος Σκιρίτης, χῶρος χωρίτης, μέσος μεσίτης, Κοπτός Κοπτίτης, Δίολ…

Herodian

…, Δῶρος ὁ Ἕλληνος καὶ πόλις Φοινίκης. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ «μετὰ δὲ ἡ πάλαι Δῶρος, νῦν δὲ Δῶρα καλεῖται». Ἰώσηπος ἐν ϛʹ τῆς Ἰουδαϊκῆς ἱστορίας «εἶναί τι γύναιον ἐν πόλει Δώρῳ» καὶ πάλιν «ὅτε ἤνεγκεν εἰς τὴν Δῶρον». Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν χρονικῶν δʹ «εἰς Δῶρον οὖσαν ἐπιθαλάττιον πόλιν». καὶ Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν Ἀσίᾳ «Δῶρος τ´ ἀγχίαλός τ´ Ἰόπη προύχουσα θαλάσσης». καὶ Χάραξ ιαʹ «Τρύφων ἐν Δώρῳ τῆς κοίλης Συρίας πόλει πολιορκούμενος ὑπ´ Ἀντιόχου ἔφυγεν εἰς Πτολεμαΐδα τὴν Ἄκην λεγομένην». ἔστι καὶ Καρίας Δῶρος πόλις, ἣν συγκαταλέγει ταῖς πόλεσιν ταῖς Καρικαῖς Κρατερὸς ἐν τῷ περὶ ψηφισμάτων τρίτῳ «Καρικὸς φόρος· Δῶρος, Φασηλῖται». Βῶρος. Χλῶρος τὸ κύριον, χῶρος, Πρῶρος, Πῶρος ὄνομα κύριον. Ὦρος. σεσημεί…

Herodian 1.384

char LCS 180 (12.5%) · word LCS 34 (12.3%)

Stephanos

…ὅπως [οἷόν] τε ἀσφαλῶς ἔθεντο, ἐπώνυμον αὐτὴν τῇ πατρίῳ γλώσσῃ Δώρ καλοῦντες. οἱ δ´ Ἕλληνες χάριν τοῦ τῆς φωνῆς εὐπροφόρου καλεῖν ἀρκοῦνται Δῶρα τὴν πόλιν. καί τινες ἱστοροῦσι Δῶρον τὸν Ποσειδῶνος οἰκιστὴν αὐτῆς γεγονέναι”. καὶ Ἀρτεμίδωρος Δῶρα τὴν πόλιν οἶδεν ἐν ἐπιτομῇ τῶν ιαʹ “συνεχῶς δ´ ἐστὶ Στράτωνος πύργος, εἶτα ἔνι Δῶρα ἐπὶ χερσονησοειδοῦς τόπου κείμενον πολισμάτιον, ἀρχομένου τοῦ ὄρους τοῦ Καρμήλου”. καὶ ἐν θʹ γεωγραφουμένων τὸ αὐτό. Ἀπολλόδωρος δὲ Δῶρον καλεῖ ἐν χρονικῶν δʹ “εἰς Δῶρον οὖσαν ἐπιθαλάττιον πόλιν”. καὶ Ἀλέξανδρος ἐν Ἀσίᾳ “Δῶρός τ´ ἀγχίαλός τ´ Ἰόπη προύχουσα θαλάσσης”. καὶ Χάραξ ιαʹ “Τρύφων ἐν Δώρῳ τῆς κοίλης Συρίας πόλει πολιορκούμενο…

Herodian

…μένη. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ «μετὰ δὲ ἡ πάλαι Δῶρος, νῦν δὲ Δῶρα καλεῖται». καὶ οὕτως Ἰώσηπος αὐτὴν καλεῖ ἐν εʹ τῆς Ἰουδαϊκῆς ἱστορίας (c. 1, 22) «ἀπὸ μὲν Ἰορδάνου μέχρι Δώρων πόλεως» καὶ πάλιν (c. 22) «Ἀζώτῳ καὶ Δώροις ὁριζόμενοι». καὶ Ἀρτεμίδωρος Δῶρα τὴν πόλιν οἶδεν ἐν ἐπιτομῇ τῶν ιαʹ «συνεχῶς δ´ ἐστὶ Στράτωνος πύργος, εἶτα ἔνι Δῶρα ἐπὶ χερσονησοειδοῦς τόπου κείμενον πολισμάτιον, ἀρχομένου τοῦ ὄρους τοῦ Καρμήλου» καὶ ἐν θʹ γεωγραφουμένων τὸ αὐτό. ἔστι καὶ Δῶρα νῆσος ἐν τῷ Περσικῷ κόλπῳ, καθὰ Στράβων ιϛʹ «τὸν δὲ Μαζήνην ἐπάρχειν νήσου τινὸς τῶν ἐν τῷ Περσικῷ κόλπῳ, καλεῖσθαι δὲ τὴν νῆσον Δῶρα». Κῶρον πόλις τῆς Καππαδοκίας. μῶρον ὁ καρπὸς τῆς βάτου. Δοῦρα πόλις Μ…

Herodian 1.49

char LCS 27 (2.4%) · word LCS 5 (2.3%)

Stephanos

…ὐτοὺς καλεῖ τῇδε γράφων “Τύριοι Ἀσκαλωνῖται Δωριεῖς Ῥαφανεῶται”, ὥστε παρὰ τὴν Δῶρον τὸ Δώριον εἶναι, οὗ ἂν εἴη τὸ Δωριεύς, ὡς τοῦ Χήσιον τὸ Χησιεύς. ἔστι καὶ Καρίας Δῶρος πόλις, ἣν συγκαταλέγει ταῖς πόλεσιν ταῖς Καρικαῖς Κρατερὸς ἐν τῷ περὶ ψηφισμάτων τρίτῳ “Καρικὸς φόρος· Δῶρος, Φασηλῖται”.

Herodian

…οῦ κλίσεως, θάτερον δὲ νεώτερον, Μέντωρ κύριον καὶ ἔθνος πρὸς τοῖς Λιβυρνοῖς. Ἑκαταῖος Εὐρώπῃ. κωμήτωρ, οἰκήτωρ, παγκράτωρ, προπάτωρ, Νικάνωρ, ἠλέκτωρ ὁ ἥλιος, ταλάωρ τὸ τόξον. Χαλκήτωρ ὁ οἰκήτωρ Χαλκητορίου πόλεως Κρήτης. Κρατερὸς ἐν τῷ περὶ ψηφισμάτων, Ἀπολλόδωρος δὲ Χαλκητορεῖς αὐτούς φησι τετάρτῳ χρονικῶν «μεθ´ οὗ Χαρίδημος ἦν φυγὰς Χαλκητορεύς». ἀλάστωρ ὁ Ζεὺς ὁ ὑποπτεύων τοὺς ἄλαστα καὶ χαλεπὰ ποιοῦντας· ἢ ὁ ἀσεβὴς ἢ ὁ κακοποιός. σημειῶδες ἄρα τὸ ἰχώρ μόνον ὀξυνό…