Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Antiocheia: ten cities are recorded, but there are more. First, of the Syrians. The second was named from Antiochos Epiphanes, of Lydia. Third of Mesopotamia, called Mygdonia, which by the natives is called Nasibis, whence Apollophanes the Stoic philosopher Nasibenos and Pharnouchos who wrote Persian histories. It is called Nesibis and Nisibis. Fourth of Pisidia. Fifth between Koile Syria and Arabia, of Semiramis. Sixth of Cilicia on the Pyramos. Seventh of Pieria, which the Syrians call Arados. Eighth the one on the lake Kallirrhoe. Ninth on the Tauros in Kommagene. Tenth in Scythia. Eleventh of Karia, which was also called Pythopolis. "For to Antiochos the son of Seleukos three women appeared in a dream, each telling him to found a city in Karia; he, taking them to be his mother and his wife and his sister, founds, from his sister Laodike Laodikeia, from his wife Nysa Nysa, from his mother Antiochis Antiocheia". Antiochis then is the name both of the mother and the ethnonym of the city and the name of a tribe. Twelfth in Margiane of the Parthyaians, about which Strabo in the eleventh. Thirteenth, Tarsos. Fourteenth, of Isauria, the one called Lamotis. The ethnonym of all Antiocheus and Antiocheios and Antiochis the feminine.
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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…δονία καλουμένη, ἥ τις πρὸς τῶν ἐπιχωρίων Νάσιβις καλεῖται, ὅθεν Ἀπολλοφάνης ὁ στωικὸς φιλόσοφος Νασιβηνὸς καὶ Φαρνοῦχος ὁ Περσικὰς ἱστορίας συγγεγραφώς. ἥ τις [καὶ] Νέσιβις λέγεται καὶ Νίσιβις. τετάρτη Πισιδίας. πέμπτη μεταξὺ κοίλης Συρίας καὶ Ἀραβίας, Σεμιράμιδος. ἕκτη Κιλικίας ἐπὶ τοῦ Πυράμου. ἑβδόμη Πιερίας, ἣν Ἄραδον οἱ Σύροι καλοῦσιν. ὀγδόη ἡ ἐπὶ τῆς Καλλιρρόης λίμνης. ἐνάτη ἐπὶ τῷ Ταύρῳ ἐν Κομμαγηνῇ. δεκάτη ἐν Σκυθίᾳ. ἑνδεκάτη Καρίας, ἥ τις καὶ Πυθόπολις ἐκαλεῖτο. “Ἀντιόχῳ γὰρ τῷ Σελεύκου τρεῖς γυναῖκες ἐπέστησαν ὄναρ, κτίσαι πόλιν ἐν Καρίᾳ ἑκάστη λέγουσα· ὁ δὲ ὑπολαβὼν τὴν μητέρα καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ τὴν ἀδελφήν, κτίζει [τρεῖς πόλεις] ἀπὸ μὲν τῆς ἀδελφῆς Λαοδίκης Λαοδίκειαν, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς γυναικὸς Νύσης Νῦσαν, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς μητρὸς Ἀντιοχίδος Ἀντιόχειαν”. Ἀντιοχίς οὖν ὄνομα καὶ τῆς μητρὸς καὶ ἐθνικὸν τῆς πόλεως καὶ φυλῆς ὄνομα. δωδεκάτη ἐν τῇ Μαργιανῇ Παρθυαίων, περὶ ἧς Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. τρισκαιδεκάτη ἡ Ταρσός. τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτη Ἰσαυρίας, ἡ Λαμωτὶς λεγομένη. τὸ ἐθνικὸν…
μεταξὺ κοίλης Συρίας καὶ Ἀραβίας, Σεμιράμιδος. ἕκτη Κιλικίας ἐπὶ τοῦ Πυράμου. ἑβδόμη Πιερίας, ἣν Ἄραδον οἱ Σύροι καλοῦσιν. ὀγδόη ἡ ἐπὶ τῆς Καλλιρρόης λίμνης. ἐνάτη ἐπὶ τῷ Ταύρῳ ἐν Κομμαγηνῇ, δεκάτη ἐν Σκυθίᾳ. ἑνδεκάτη Καρίας, ἥτις καὶ Πυθόπολις ἐκαλεῖτο. «Ἀντιόχῳ γὰρ τῷ Σελεύκου τρεῖς γυναῖκες ἐπέστησαν ὄναρ, κτίσαι πόλιν ἐν Καρίᾳ ἑκάστη λέγουσα. ὁ δὲ ὑπολαβὼν τὴν μητέρα καὶ τὴν γυναῖκα καὶ τὴν ἀδελφήν, κτίζει τρεῖς πόλεις ἀπὸ μὲν τῆς ἀδελφῆς Λαοδίκης Λαοδίκειαν, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς γυναικὸς Νύσης Νῦσαν, ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς μητρὸς Ἀντιοχίδος Ἀντιόχειαν». δωδεκάτη ἐν τῇ Μαργιανῇ Παρθυαίων. Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. τρισκαιδεκάτη ἡ Ταρσός. τεσσαρεσκαιδεκάτη Ἰσαυρίας ἡ Λαμπωτὶς λεγομένη. Ἀσπαλάθεια πόλις Ταφίων. Νίκανδρος ἑτεροιουμένων πρώτῃ «Ἀσπαλάθεια βοήροτος». Ἀττάλεια πόλις…