Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Akragantes: five cities. of Sicily, from a river flowing past. For Douris says that most of the cities of the Sicels are named from rivers, Syracuse Gela Himera Selinous and Phoinikous and Eryke and Kamikos and Halikyai and Thermos and Kamarina, as also in Italy. Others from Akragas son of Zeus and Asterope daughter of Okeanos. There is also one of Thrace and of Euboia and of Cyprus and of Aitolia. Polybios the river and the city were named from the land, Akrages, because of its fertility. The ethnonym Akragantinos, as 'Ichaninos' 'Tarantinos', as Herodian says.
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.
Ἀκράγαντες, πόλεις πέντε. Σικελίας, ἀπὸ ποταμοῦ παραρρέοντος. φησὶ γὰρ Δοῦρις ὅτι αἱ πλεῖσται τῶν Σικελῶν πόλεων ἐκ τῶν ποταμῶν ὀνομάζονται, Συρακούσας Γέλαν Ἱμέραν Σελινοῦντα καὶ Φοινικοῦντα καὶ Ἐρύκην καὶ Καμικόν Ἁλικύας τε καὶ Θέρμον καὶ Καμαρῖναν, ὡς καὶ ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ. οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ Ἀκράγαντος τοῦ Διὸς καὶ Ἀστερόπης τῆς Ὠκεανοῦ. ἔστι καὶ Θρᾴκης καὶ Εὐβοίας καὶ Κύπρου καὶ Αἰτωλίας. Πολύβιος δὲ τὸν ποταμὸν καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἀπὸ τῆς χώρας ὠνομάσθαι Ἀκράγης διὰ τὸ εὔγεων. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἀκραγαντῖνος, ὡς Ἰχανῖνος Ταραντῖνος, ὥς φησιν Ἡρωδιανός.
…ιβύης «οἵ τινες τὰ ἄνθη συλλέγοντες μέλι ποιοῦσιν ὥστε μὴ λείπεσθαι τοῦ ὑπὸ τῶν μελισσῶν γινομένου», ὡς Εὔδοξος ὁ Κνίδιος ἐν ἕκτῳ γῆς περιόδου. Σάλγας ποταμὸς τῆς Μαυριτανίας, Βησσύγας ποταμὸς τῆς Ἰνδικῆς. Ἀκράγας πόλις Σικελίας ἀπὸ ποταμοῦ παραρρέοντος. φησὶ γὰρ Δοῦρις ὅτι αἱ πλεῖσται τῶν Σικελῶν πόλεων ἐκ τῶν ποταμῶν ὀνομάζονται, Συρακούσας, Γέλαν, Ἱμέραν, Σελινοῦντα καὶ Φοινικοῦντα καὶ Ἐρύκην καὶ Καμικόν Ἁλικύας τε καὶ Θέρμον καὶ Καμάριναν, ὡς καὶ ἐν Ἰταλίᾳ. οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ Ἀκράγαντος τοῦ Διὸς καὶ Ἀστερόπης τῆς Ὠκεανοῦ. ἔστι καὶ Θρᾴκης καὶ Εὐβοίας καὶ Κύπρου καὶ Αἰτωλίας. Πολύβιος δὲ τὸν ποταμὸν καὶ τὴν πόλιν ἀπὸ τῆς χώρας ὠνομάσθαι Ἀκράγης διὰ τὸ εὔγεων.