On Stephanus of Byzantium "sigma.nu. Halikarnassos" [Greek] Huxley, George Greek, Roman and Byzantine Studies; Fall 1965; 6, 3; ProQuest pg. 213

On Stephanus of Byzantium s. v. 
eAA1Kapvacrcr6~ 

George Huxley 

THE BEGINNING of the entry s.v. rAI\LKcxpvcxUUos in the 'E(JVLKa of 
Stephanus is given by Meineke in his edition [Berlin 1849, 
p. 74, 6-9] as follows: 

rA' I I, TT I "A (J .I.' ,\ - r" I\LKCXpVCXUUOS, 17'OI\£S nCXpLCXs.... v '1}S, .,.,CXULV, • • • a7TO TOU CXI\L 
, {} 'TT' ., 0:-' r "A {} , ", r- , 17'EPLEXEU aL T'1}V ncxpLav. aUTOS OE 0 V '1}S EK .1 pOL<:,'1}VOS P.ETCPK'1}UE, 

, Q' , A , .I. , , r TT' , I ... " - , {} " I\CX{JWV T'1}V La UP.CXLVCXV .,.,VI\'1}V, WS nCXI\I\Lp.cxxOS. '1) a7TO TOV vaucxu aL CXUTOV 

am) TPOL'fjVOS, ws 'A7TOMoowpos. 

"AvO?]s, if>auLv, Meineke: "AvO?]s if>?]ULV libri. <~v> "AvO?]s, if>auLv, <wvof.La­
UEV> coni. Meineke: fAvO?]s if>?]ULVt Pfeiffer, Callim. Fr. 703. ciA, Salmas., ciALq. 
RVP MLOV Et. cod. Par. 2669 Cram. A.P. IV 107,8 (vid. Apollodor. F.Gr.Hist. 
244 F 291). athos Libri: OOTOS? Meineke. fLETcpKurE RVP: corr. Meineke. JVf.Latvav 
R: LJ vf.LeXvav V. 

The name "Av{}'1}S' is obviously corrupt where it first occurs, and 
Meineke recognized that the name of a writer was needed here, not 
the name of the city's founder; Upotest vero CP'1}u{v retineri si scriptoris 
nomen excidissestatuas, quiillamnominisrAI\LKapvcxuuosoriginati onem 
tradiderit." A cogent cure will be (1) the name of a writer likely to 
have been interested in the founding of Halikarnassos, having (2) 

a name similar to "Av(J'1}s and (3) known to have indulged in pseudo­
etymology. All three conditions are fulfilled by reading " Avopwv. He (1) 
came from Halikarnassos [Plutarch, Theseus 25: FGrHist 10 F 6] and 
wrote about the Dorian settlement of Krete, his account of which was 
mentioned by Stephanus of Byzantium [s.v . .dWpLOV: FGrHist 10F 16b]; 
he may well therefore have also written about his own city's Dorian 
foundation. He (2) has a name similar to "Av(J'1}s, and the corruption is 
an easy one. He (3) liked pseudo-etymologies: thus he explained that 
n apvauuos was at first called Aapvauuos because the Aapvag of De uk ali on 
rested there [FGrHist 10 F 8]. Andron is a name known at Halikar­
nassos from the list of priests of Poseidon [Dittenberger, Sylloge2 608]. 

There are other corruptions in the entry as printed by Meineke. 
It is not true to say that Karia is surrounded by the sea, but Halikar-

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nassos nearl y was : read therefore a1TO TOU <TiiL > aAl.1T€pLlx€a{}aL TijS Kapw.s 
and compare Etym.Mag. (Gen) 64, 25 8ux TO 1TpOS TiiL MI. Tijs Kaplas 

• {}A ., 1'n O"<La TjV(U' OUTWS ;:'~pOS. 

aUTOS' 8£ J "Av{}TjS' comes abruptly, and Meineke saw that all was not 
well here. Anthes himselfis being compared with somebody or some­
thing else, and the words aUTOS' 8£ are a sign that there is a lacuna 
between Kaplav and aUTOS'. Stephanus S.V. 'A071vaL [po 34,11 Meineke] 
shows what the lacuna contained: the Athenians JMyoVTo 8£ Kcd 
1TaTpovvJLLKijJ Tump, ws· A{3pwv ( aKpwv RV) lv Tijj 1T€P' 1TapwvuJLwv, 6TL 

, ,~\ I \ A'" .... ,~ \ "" nac. OLTTaL 1TpOUT}yopLaL 1Tapa 1TOLTjTac.S', a1TO T€ TTJS 1TaTpwos Kac. TOU 

avvoLKLaTOU. 'AALKapvaaaEtS' youv 'Av(}€a8aL. . • . Between Kaplav and 
aUTOS' read therefore <o[ 1TOAtTaL 'Av{}€a8aL) vel. sim. The sense in the 
Stephanus article is thus: "The citizens are called the House of 
Anthes: but Anthes himself migrated from Troizen, as Kallima­
chos says." The name Anthes was said to recur in the royal line of 
Halikamassos [Parthenius, Narr. Am. 14]. 

Andron's date is unknown, though Strabo's quotation from him 
may be second-hand through Apollodoros.1 It is not clear that 
Kallimachos took from Andron the remark that Anthes brought the 
Dymainian tribe over from Troizen to Halikarnassos: nor is it obvious 
from the fragment of Kallimachos here that only the Dymanes, 
without the other two Dorian tribes, migrated to Halikamassos from 
Troizen.2 Herodotos [7.99.3] simply states that the Halikarnassians 
were Dorians from Troizen. In fact the Dorian element in the city 
may never have been strong, as the personal names show much 
Karian influence; the place's speech early became Ionic3 and Hali­
kamassos was expelled from the league of the Triopian Dorians 
[Herodotos 1.144.3]. 

The corrected text of Stephan us s.v. 'AALKapvaaa6S' ad init. may now 
be set out: 'AALKapvaaa6S', 1T6ALS' Kaplas. "Av8pwv cpTjal.v a1TO TOU <TijL> 
-'- \ \ , {} - T?' • \ - 'A () ,~ • \ t' , • "A {} a/\L 1T€pL€x€a aL 'T7}S .n.apLaS'. <OL 1TO/\LTaL II EaoaL)' aUTOS' OE 0 II TjS 

lie TpOL~7jvoS /LE'T6JLK7}aE, Aa{1c1v T~V AU/LaLVaV cPUA~V, cfJs KaA>..l/Laxos. 

THB QUEBN'S UNIVERSITY OF BELFAST 

May, 1965 

1 Str. 9.1.6, 10.2.14, and 10.4.6: Andron, FGrHist 10 p 14, 15 and 16a. 
I A. Andrewes, "Phratries in Homer,» Herws 89 (1961) 132 n.2. 
I C. D. Buck, ~ Greek Dialects' (Chicago 1955) 185.