Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Apodotoi: as 'Boiotoi', a people of Aitolia. Thucydides in the third: "they urged him to attack first the Apodotoi, then the Ophioneis".
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.
Ἀποδωτοί, ὡς Βοιωτοί, ἔθνος Αἰτωλίας. Θουκυδίδης τρίτῃ “ἐπιχειρεῖν δ´ ἐκέλευον πρῶτον μὲν Ἀποδωτοῖς, ἔπειτα Ὀφιονεῦσιν”.
…όν ῥα Ποσειδάωνι δαμασσαμένη τέκεν Ἄρνη, Βοιωτὸν δ´ ὀνόμηνε. τὸ γὰρ καλέσαντο νομῆες, ὅττι ῥα πατρῴῃσι βοῶν ἀπεθήκατο κόπροις. καὶ Εὐριπίδης «τὸν δ´ ἀμφὶ βοῦς ῥιφέντα Βοιωτὸν καλεῖν». τὸ ἐθνικὸν ὅμοιον Βοιωτός. Ἀποδωτός ἔθνος Αἰτωλίας. Θουκυδίδης τρίτῃ (c. 94) «ἐπιχειρεῖν δ´ ἐκέλευον πρῶτον μὲν Ἀποδωτοῖς, ἔπειτα Ὀφιονεῦσιν». Ἀραχωτός ποταμὸς Ἰνδικῆς ῥέων ἀπὸ Καυκάσου, ὡς Φαβωρῖνος καὶ Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. καὶ ἀπ´ αὐτοῦ Ἀραχωτοί πόλις Ἰνδικῆς. εἰσὶ καὶ ἄλλοι πλησίον Μασσαγετῶν ὡς Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. διχῶς δὲ