Ἄβαρνος

Abarnis, Abarnus, Abarrnos, Aparnis, Lampsakos">Abarnos: a city and territory [and] promontory in Pariane. Herodianos, in book 4, says that it is called 'Abarnis'; but it also occurs in 'ος'. The inhabitants are 'Abarneis', just as 'Apsyrteis' derives from the form 'Apsyrtos', 'Kamireis' from 'Kamiros', 'Aleis' from 'Alos', and 'Telmisseis' from 'Telmissos', about which discussion will be given. But 'Abarnis' cannot have this kind of ethnonym; for names ending in 'ις' favour the type ending in 'ιτης', as 'Memphites' from 'Memphis'. The forms 'Makrieus' and 'Chalkieus' and 'Chalkideus' have arisen from the genitive. Hekataios the Milesian, in his Periegesis of Asia, says that it is a promontory of Lampsakos. Ephoros, in book 5, says that it was named after the Abarnis in Phokis by the Phokaians who founded Lampsakos. Apollonios: 'and Perkote beside it, and the sandy shore of Abarnis'. Sophokles, commenting on this, relates that Aphrodite, after giving birth to Priapos misshapen in Lampsakos, denied him and called the region 'Aparnis', which by corruption is also called 'Abarnis'. [It is also a city and territory and promontory.] It is also found with π, 'Aparnis', as in Artemidoros the geographer. The ethnonym is 'Abarnaios', and the feminine is 'Abarnaie'.