Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Arachotoi: a city of India, from the river Arachotos, flowing from the Caucasus, as Favorinus and Strabo in the eleventh. There are also others near the Massagetai, as Strabo in the eleventh. It is to be said in two ways, both Arachotes and Arachotos.
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.
Ἀραχωτοί, πόλις Ἰνδικῆς, ἀπὸ Ἀραχωτοῦ ποταμοῦ, ῥέοντος ἀπὸ τοῦ Καυκάσου, ὡς Φαβωρῖνος καὶ Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. εἰσὶ καὶ ἄλλοι πλησίον Μασσαγετῶν, ὡς Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. διχῶς δὲ λεκτέον, καὶ Ἀραχώτης καὶ Ἀραχωτός.
…ς 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
Ἀραχωτοί, πόλις Ἰνδικῆς, ἀπὸ Ἀραχωτοῦ ποταμοῦ, ῥέοντος ἀπὸ τοῦ Καυκάσου, ὡς Φαβωρῖνος καὶ Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. εἰσὶ καὶ ἄλλοι πλησίον Μασσαγετῶν, ὡς Στράβων ἑνδεκάτῃ. διχῶς δὲ λεκτέον, καὶ Ἀραχώτης καὶ Ἀραχωτός.
λεκτέον καὶ Ἀραχώτης καὶ Ἀραχωτός. Βουθρωτός νῆσος περὶ Κέρκυραν. ἔστι καὶ πόλις. Θεσπρωτός ἔθνος, μυωτός εἶδος χιτῶνος, ἁλωτός. τὸ δὲ δορυάλωτος σύνθετον προπαροξύνεται. τὰ δὲ ἔχοντα ἐν τῇ πρώτῃ τὸ 'α' στερητικὸν προπαροξύνεται, ἄγνωτος, ἄτρωτος, ἄπτωτ…