Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Anaktorion: a city of Akarnania, neuter, a colony of the Corinthians. Thucydides in the fourth. Masculine in Sophokles. The ethnonym Anaktorios and Anaktoria the land and Anaktorieus. Sophokles says with 'ei': "Anaktoreion, eponym of this land". And Eugenios, who before us adorned the schools in the imperial city, in his Collection of Words says it with the diphthong. But he seems to have met with an unpunctuated book; for we found it with the 'i'.
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.