Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Aia: a city of the Kolchians, a foundation of Aietes, three hundred stades from the sea, around which flow two rivers, Hippos and Kyaneos, making it a peninsula. But it seems, on the contrary, that Aietes is from it, as 'Asia' 'Asiates', so Aia 'Aiates' and 'Aietes'. There is also another of Thessaly, which Sophokles mentions, saying of the former "sailing to Aia", and of the second thus: "there is a certain Aia, an entire domain of Thessalians". There is also Aia a spring of Macedonia, as Antimachos in the Thebais. The ethnonym Aiaios as 'Gazaios', the feminine Aiaia.
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.
…εριρρέουσι δύο ποταμοί, Ἵππος καὶ Κυάνεος, ποιοῦντες αὐτὴν χερρόνησον. ἔοικε δὲ τοὐναντίον ἐξ αὐτῆς ὁ Αἰήτης εἶναι, ὡς Ἀσία Ἀσιάτης, οὕτως Αἶα Αἰάτης καὶ Αἰήτης. ἔστι δὲ καὶ Θετταλίας ἄλλη, ἧς μέμνηται Σοφοκλῆς, τῆς μὲν προτέρας λέγων “εἰς Αἶαν πλέων” τῆς δὲ δευτέρας οὕτως “ἔστιν τις Αἶα Θεσσαλῶν παγκληρία”. ἔστιν Αἶα καὶ Μακεδονίας πηγή, ὡς Ἀντίμαχος ἐν Θηβαίδι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Αἰαῖος ὡς Γαζαῖος, τὸ θηλυκὸν Αἰαία.
…'υια' δισύλλαβα προπερισπᾶται, μαῖα· ἔστι καὶ πόλις Ἑλλησποντία, γαῖα ἀπὸ τοῦ γῆ, αἶα, ὅπερ ἀπὸ τοῦ γαῖα γέγονε κατὰ ἀφαίρεσιν τοῦ 'γ', ἔστι δὲ καὶ Αἶα πόλις Κόλχων· ἔστι δὲ καὶ Θετταλίας ἄλλη, ἧς μέμνηται Σοφοκλῆς, τῆς προτέρας λέγων «εἰς Αἶαν πλέων», τῆς δὲ δευτέρας οὕτως «ἔστιν τις Αἶα Θεσσαλῶν παγκληρία». ἔστιν Αἶα καὶ Μακεδονίας πηγή, ὡς Ἀντίμαχος ἐν Θηβαΐδι. γραῖα. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Ἐρετρίας. τινὲς δὲ τῇ Τανάγρῃ τὴν αὐτήν φασιν ἀφαιρέσει τῆς ἀρχῆς, ὧν εἷς ἐστι καὶ Καλλίμαχος, Ἀριστοτέλης δὲ Γραῖαν τὴν νῦν Ὠρωπόν «ἡ δὲ Γραῖα τόπος τῆς Ὠρωπίας πρὸς τῇ θαλάσσῃ κατ´ Ἐρέτριαν τῆς …