Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Amphanai: a Dorian city. Hekataios in the first of the Genealogies. Theopompos calls it Amphanaia in the fifth of the Philippika. There is also a place of Thessaly likewise. The ethnonym Amphanaios and Amphanaieus.
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.
Ἀμφαναί, πόλις Δωρική. Ἑκαταῖος ἐν πρώτῃ γενεαλογιῶν. Θεόπομπος Ἀμφαναίαν αὐτὴν καλεῖ ἐν πέμπτῳ Φιλιππικῶν. ἔστι καὶ χωρίον Θετταλίας ὡσαύτως. τὸ ἐθνικὸν Ἀμφαναῖος καὶ Ἀμφαναιεύς.
ἐπὶ τῶν ἀδήλων καὶ ἐκτετοπισμένων. Παρικάνη πόλις Περσική. Ἑκαταῖος Ἀσίᾳ «ἐν δ´ αὐτοῖσι πόλις Παρικάνη οὔνομα». τὸ δὲ μηχανή ὀξύνεται. ὡσαύτως καὶ Ἀμφαναί πόλις Δωρική. Ἑκαταῖος ἐν πρώτῃ γενεαλογιῶν. Θεόπομπος Ἀμφαναίαν αὐτὴν καλεῖ ἐν πέμπτῳ Φιλιππικῶν. ἔστι καὶ χωρίον Θεσσαλίας ὡσαύτως. τὰ δὲ εἰς 'ανη' 'α' μακρῷ παραληγόμενα ἔχοντα ἔννοιάν τινος προσυπακουομένου ἐπὶ χωρῶν καὶ ἐπὶ πόλεων ὀξύνεται, Ματιανή μοῖρα τῆς Μηδίας. Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ «τοῦτο δὲ γίνεται καὶ τῆς Μηδίας ἐν τῇ Ματιανῇ».…