A city.[1]
Also [sc. attested is] 'Naxian stone', [meaning] the Cretan whetstone; for Naxos [is] a city of Crete.[2]
The man[3] who wrote that Naxia [is] a city of Caria, of which the citizen is [called] a Naxieus and a Naxiates, says also that [there is] a city of Sicily [called] Naxos;[4] also a Cretic one, from which [comes] the Naxian stone; if [this adjective] is written with an iota, he says it was taken as kritikê ("critical"), meaning determining and disclosing. Naxos [is] also a notable Cycladic island. [It is named] either from some person named Naxos or from the [verb] na/cai ["to squeeze"], that is to sacrifice. They say that the Naxian women there are the only ones to give birth in eight months, as a gift of Hera. Dionysus also, they say, was born in this way. And according to Heracleides there is a spring there, from which very sweet wine flows.[5]