Stephanos of Byzantium - Ethnika
Argoura: a city of Thessaly, the former Argissa. There is also a place of Euboia Argoura, where Hermes is thought to have slain the All-seeing one. The ethnonym ought to be Argouraios, as also Philon. Apollodoros in the first of the Catalogue of Ships says they are named Argeioi, "either the appellation having shifted or because the plains of Thessaly adjoin, which indeed Homer called Pelasgian Argos. They are called Leontinoi from Leonteus". And Argourios the ethnic.
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.
Ἄργουρα, πόλις Θεσσαλίας, ἡ πρότερον Ἄργισσα. ἔστι καὶ τόπος τῆς Εὐβοίας Ἄργουρα, ὅπου δοκεῖ τὸν Πανόπτην Ἑρμῆς πεφονευκέναι. τὸ ἐθνικὸν δὲ ἔδει Ἀργουραῖος, ὡς καὶ Φίλων. Ἀπολλόδωρος δέ φησιν ἐν πρώτῳ νεῶν καταλόγου Ἀργείους ὀνομάζεσθαι “ἢ τῆς προσηγορίας μεταπεσούσης ἢ διὰ τὸ προσκυροῦν τὰ πεδία τῆς Θετταλίας, ἣν δὴ Πελασγικὸν Ἄργος εἶπεν Ὅμ…
… τὴν χώραν Αἰγιαλόν φασι τό τε Αἴγιον καὶ ἔτι Αἴγειραν. Ἀγρόειρα ἢ Ἀλλόειρα ἡ ὕστερον Ἀττάλεια καλουμένη πόλις Λυδίας. Τὰ εἰς 'ρα' ὑπὲρ δύο συλλαβὰς βραχὺ ἔχοντα τὸ 'α' καὶ πρὸ τέλους ἔχοντα 'ου' προπαροξύνεται, ἄρουρα, Ἄργουρα πόλις Θεσσαλίας ἡ πρότερον Ἄργισσα. ἔστι καὶ τόπος τῆς Εὐβοίας Ἄργουρα, ὅπου δοκεῖ τὸν Πανόπτην Ἑρμῆς πεφονευκέναι. μέμνηται Δημοσθένης λέγων »ἐξ Ἀργούρας τῆς Εὐβοίας«. Κυνόσουρα ἐπὶ τῆς ἄρκτου οἳ τὴν μὲν κυνόσουραν ἐπίκλησιν καλέουσιν (Arat. Phaen. 36). καὶ ἐπὶ τῇ Λακωνικῇ φυλακῇ καὶ ἄκρα Μαραθῶνος οὕτως καλεῖται. ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἄκρα …