Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Andeira: a city, neuter, in which is a stone "which when burnt becomes iron; then smelted with a certain earth it drips off false-silver; then mixed with copper it becomes brass", Strabo in the thirteenth and Theopompos in the thirteenth. The ethnonym Andeirenos and Andeirene. For so the Mother of the Gods was called there. There is also Andeira in the feminine, of Phrygia.
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.