Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Ambrakia: a city of Thesprotia, from Ambrax the son of Thesprotos son of Lykaon, or from Ambrakia the daughter of Augeas, about whom Phileas. The ethnonym Ambrakieus and Ambrakiotes. Philistos says Ambrakinos by the Sicilian type. It is found also with 'p' instead of 'b', whence also Amprakiotes from the genitive 'Amprakos' and Amprakia. For feminines in 'ia' and neuters in 'ion' make the ethnics with 'otes', Sikeliotes 'Peliotes'. Also said Ambrakios and Ambrakia the woman. And Ambrakia from the genitive Ambrakos, not from Ambrakios; for it would have been Ambrakiakos.
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.
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Ἀμβρακία, πόλις Θεσπρωτίας, ἀπὸ Ἄμβρακος τοῦ παιδὸς Θεσπρωτοῦ τοῦ Λυκάονος, ἢ ἀπὸ Ἀμβρακίας τῆς Αὐγέου θυγατρός, περὶ ἧς Φιλέας. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἀμβρακιεύς καὶ Ἀμβρακιώτης. Φίλιστος δὲ Ἀμβρακῖνος φησὶ Σικελικῷ τύπῳ. εὕρηται καὶ διὰ τοῦ « π » ἀντὶ τοῦ « β », ὅθεν καὶ τὸ Ἀμπρακιώτης ἀπὸ τῆς Ἄμπρακος γενικῆς καὶ Ἀμπρακία. τὰ γὰρ εἰς « ια » θηλυκὰ καὶ εἰ…
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