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Teucer of Cyzicus was a Greek historian, probably of the first century BC, known mainly from a list of his many titles in the Suda. His works are lost and survive only in a few quotations. This small collection gathers etymologies of place names cited in the Etymologicum Magnum and Stephanus of Byzantium, including the story of how Helenus named Buthrotum in Epirus after a fleeing sacrificial ox, and a riddle quoted by Athenaeus from his Definitions.
Though slight, the fragments show the learned interests of late Hellenistic historians, who explained place names through myth and local tradition. The Buthrotum story links a town in Epirus to the Trojan legend that Virgil also used, and the riddle reflects the fashion for learned puzzles preserved by Athenaeus.
About this edition. The Greek text comes from the Eulogikon open corpus of public-domain editions (standard reference: FHG IV (Teucer Cyzicenus); FGrHist 274). Every word has been analyzed with odyCy, a neural language model for Ancient Greek — click or tap any word for its dictionary form, part of speech, and complete morphology, together with the full entry from the Liddell–Scott–Jones Greek–English Lexicon (LSJ).