Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Aigys: a city of Laconia, as Euphorion. The citizens Aigytai, as Pausanias. Lykophron the ethnonym Aigyos, saying the feminine thus: "and you shall endure all for the sake of the Aigyan bitch, the maid who bore female children and had three husbands". The passage is about Helen, being Laconian and not bearing a male, married to Menelaos and Alexandros and Deiphobos. Theopompos calls them Aigyeis.
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.
Αἶγυς, πόλις Λακωνικῆς, ὡς Εὐφορίων. οἱ πολῖται Αἰγῦται, ὡς Παυσανίας. Λυκόφρων δὲ τὸ ἐθνικὸν Αἴγυος, τὸ θηλυκὸν λέγων οὕτως “καὶ πάντα τλήσεσθ´ οὕνεκ´ Αἰγύας κυνός, τῆς θηλύπαιδος καὶ τριάνορος κόρης”. ὁ λόγος περὶ Ἑλένης Λακωνικῆς οὔσης καὶ ἄρρεν μὴ τεκούσης [καὶ] τῷ Μενελάῳ καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρῳ καὶ Δηιφόβῳ γαμηθείσης. Θεόπομπος δὲ Αἰγυέας αὐτούς φησιν.
… ὀξύνεται. καὶ τὸ ὀλοός ὀξύνεται ἀπὸ τοῦ ὀλῶ. Τὰ εἰς 'ος' ὑπερδισύλλαβα παραληγόμενα 'υ' συνεσταλμένῳ προπαροξύνεται, σίκυος, Πέρυος ὄνομα ποταμοῦ, Φόγγυος. Αἴγυος ἐθνικόν, οὗ τὸ θηλυκὸν Λυκόφρων λέγει οὕτως «καὶ πάντα πλήσεσθ´ οὕνεκ´ Αἰγύας κυνός, τῆς θηλύπαιδος καὶ τριάνορος κόρης» (v. 850). Θεόπομπος δὲ Αἰγυέας αὐτούς φησι, Παυσανίας δὲ Αἰγύτας. Πατράσυος, Κάνδυος, Ἀλάσυος, Ἐρύγυος, Νώγυος ὄνομα ποταμοῦ. Μίνυος, ἀφ´ οὗ Μινύα πόλις Θεσσαλική. Σίλλυος πόλις Ἰωνίας πρὸς τῇ Σμύρνῃ. τὸ δὲ Τιτυός καὶ …