List of ancient place-names (cities, mountains, capes, regions) with brief citations and a grammatical note on accentuation of words ending in -σιον.
πόλις ἐν Ἀρναίᾳ χώρᾳ τῆς Βοιωτίας ἀπὸ Φιλήνορος τοῦ Αἰτωλοῦ. Ἀλαβούριον πόλις Συρίας. Χάραξ ὀγδόῃ χρονικῶν. Ἀγκύριον πόλις Ἰταλίας. Ὀνθύριον πόλις Θεσσαλικὴ περὶ τὴν Ἄρνην. Μανδύριον πόλις Ἰαπυγίας. Ἀταβύριον ὄρος Σικελίας, ὡς Τίμαιος. κέκληται δὲ τὰ ὄρη ἀπό τινος Τελχῖνος Ἀταβυρίου. ἔστι καὶ Περσικὴ πόλις· ἔστι καὶ Φοινίκης. Ζεφύριον. ἡ Ἁλικαρνασσὸς τῆς Καρίας οὕτως ἐκαλεῖτο, ὡς Φίλων, καὶ πόλις Κιλικίας. ἔστι καὶ Σκυθίας χωρίον. ἔστι καὶ Ἰταλίας Ζεφύριον, ἀφ´ οὗ Λοκροὶ Ἐπιζεφύριοι. ἔστι καὶ ἄκρα τῆς Αἰγύπτου, ἀφ´ ἧς ἡ Ἀφροδίτη καὶ Ἀρσινόη Ζεφυρῖτις, ὡς Καλλίμαχος. Πλημμύριον φρούριον Συρακουσῶν. Σατύριον χωρίον πλησίον Τάραντος. νεώριον. Μακτώριον πόλις Σικελίας. Φίλιστος πρώτῳ. κασώριον τὸ πορνεῖον. Ἀριστοφάνης «ἐν κασωρίοισι λείχων» (Eq. 1285). Ἀσσώριον πόλις Σικελίας. ταύτην τρισυλλάβως Ἄσσωρον καλεῖ Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν δʹ χρονικῶν. Ἰσσώριον ὄρος τῆς Λακωνικῆς, ἀφ´ οὗ ἡ Ἄρτεμις Ἰσσωρία. Πολιτώριον πόλις Λατίνων, ἣν ἑλὼν Μάρκιος ὁ βασιλεὺς μετήγαγεν εἰς Ῥώμην. Φαγρώριον πόλις, ὡς Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ πολυίστωρ ἐν Αἰγυπτιακοῖς, ἐξ οὗ σύνθετον Φαγρωριόπολις. ἀνεμούριον, σισύμβριον ἡ βοτάνη. Τενέβριον ἀκρωτήριον Ἰβηρίας. ἀνδράγρια, ζωάγρια, μοιχάγρια. τρωγλύδριον, Πριαμιλλύδριον, νεανισκύδριον. Μεθύδριον πόλις Ἀρκαδίας. καὶ ἑτέρα πόλις Θεσσαλίας, ὡς Φίλων. Τελέθριον ὄρος τῆς ἐν Εὐβοίᾳ Ἐλλοπίας. Στράβων δεκάτῃ. Παντομάτριον πόλις Κρήτης. Δημήτριον τόπος περὶ Θεσσαλίαν περὶ τὸ Κροκωτὸν πεδίον κείμενος παρὰ τὸν Ἄμφρυσον. ἔστι καὶ πόλις Αἰολίδος. * Τὰ διὰ τοῦ 'σιον' ὑπὲρ τρεῖς συλλαβὰς προπαροξύνεται, Βουπράσιον πόλις καὶ ποταμὸς καὶ χώρα τῆς Ἤλιδος «οἳ δ´ ἄρα Βουπράσιόν τε καὶ Ἤλιδα δῖαν ἔναιον» (Β 615). γυμνάσιον, ἱππάσιον, κοράσιον. Ὀρεσθάσιον πόλις Ἀρκαδικὴ ἀπὸ Ὀρεσθέως τοῦ Λυκάονος. Παυσανίας ὀγδόῳ ( 27, 3). Κορυφάσιον χωρίον Λακωνικὸν πλησίον Πύλου. Θουκυδίδης τετάρτῃ (c. 3 et 118). Ψευδοκοράσιον αἰγιαλὸς μέγας μεταξὺ Κωρύκου καὶ τῆς Σελευκείας τῆς παρ´ Ἰσαύροις. Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐνάτῳ τῶν γεωγραφουμένων «παραλλάξαντι δὲ ταύτην αἰγιαλὸς ἄλλος ἐκδέχεται σταδίων τριῶν, μηνοειδὴς καὶ ὕφορμος, καλούμενος Ψευδοκοράσιον» Θαυμάσιον ὄρος Ἀρκαδίας, ἐν ᾧ τὸν λίθον ὁ Κρόνος κατέπιεν. κυνηγέσιον. Βρεντέσιον πόλις παρὰ τὸν
A city in the Arnaean region of Boeotia, named from Philenor the Aetolian. Ἀλαβούριον, a city of Syria. Χάραξ, in the eighth book of the Chronica. Ἀγκύριον, a city of Italy. Ὀνθύριον, a Thessalian city near Ἄρνη. Μανδύριον, a city of Iapygia. Ἀταβύριον, a mountain of Sicily, as Timaeus says; and the mountains are called from a certain Telchin, Ἀταβύριος. There is also a Persian city; there is also one of Phoenicia. Ζεφύριον: Halicarnassus of Caria was so called, as Philo says, and there is also a city of Cilicia. There is also a place of Scythia. There is also a Ζεφύριον of Italy, from which the Locrians are called Ἐπιζεφύριοι. There is also a promontory of Egypt, from which Aphrodite and Arsinoe are called Ζεφυρῖτις, as Callimachus says. Πλημμύριον, a fort of Syracuse. Σατύριον, a place near Tarentum. νεώριον. Μακτώριον, a city of Sicily. Philistus, in the first book. κασώριον, the brothel. Aristophanes: “licking in the κασωρία” (Eq. 1285). Ἀσσώριον, a city of Sicily; Apollodorus in the fourth book of the Chronica calls this trisyllabically Ἄσσωρον. Ἰσσώριον, a mountain of Laconia, from which Artemis is called Ἰσσωρία. Πολιτώριον, a city of the Latins, which King Marcius, after taking it, transferred to Rome. Φαγρώριον, a city, as Alexander Polyhistor says in the Egyptian History, from which the compound Φαγρωριόπολις. ἀνεμούριον; σισύμβριον, the plant. Τενέβριον, a promontory of Iberia. ἀνδράγρια, ζωάγρια, μοιχάγρια. τρωγλύδριον, Πριαμιλλύδριον, νεανισκύδριον. Μεθύδριον, a city of Arcadia; and another city of Thessaly, as Philo says. Τελέθριον, a mountain of the Ellopia in Euboea. Strabo, in the tenth book. Παντομάτριον, a city of Crete. Δημήτριον, a place in Thessaly, situated in the Crocotian plain by the Amphrysus; there is also a city of Aeolis. * Words in -σιον with more than three syllables are accented on the antepenult: Βουπράσιον, a city and river and district of Elis, “who then inhabited both Βουπράσιόν and divine Elis” (Β 615). γυμνάσιον, ἱππάσιον, κορᾶσιον. Ὀρεσθάσιον, an Arcadian city named from Orestheus son of Lycaon. Pausanias, in the eighth book (27, 3). Κορυφάσιον, a place in Laconia near Pylos. Thucydides, in the fourth book (c. 3 et 118). Ψευδοκοράσιον, a great beach between Corycus and Seleuceia among the Isaurians. Artemidorus, in the ninth book of the Geographoumena: “and when one has passed this, another beach receives one for three stades, crescent-shaped and with an anchorage, called Ψευδοκοράσιον.” Θαυμάσιον, a mountain of Arcadia, in which Cronus swallowed the stone. κυνηγέσιον. Βρεντέσιον, a city by the…