§12.3.24πρὸς Ἀπολλόδωρον δὲ περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ Τρωικῷ διακόσμῳ διαλεγόμενον πολλὰ μὲν εἴρηται πρότερον, καὶ νῦν δὲ λεκτέον.
To Apollodorus, who discusses the same things in his Trojan Catalogue, much has been said before, and now indeed it must be said.
οὐ γὰρ οἴεται δεῖν δέχεσθαι τοὺς Ἁλιζώνους ἐκτὸς τοῦ Ἅλυος· μηδεμίαν γὰρ συμμαχίαν ἀφῖχθαι τοῖς Τρωσὶν ἐκ τῆς περαίας τοῦ Ἅλυος.
For he does not think that we should accept that the Halizones came from outside the Halys; for he believes that no alliance arrived for the Trojans from the other side of the Halys.
πρῶτον τοίνυν ἀπαιτήσομεν αὐτὸν τίνες εἰσὶν οἱ ἐντὸς τοῦ Ἅλυος Ἁλίζωνοι, οἱ καὶ
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τηλόθεν ἐξ Ἀλύβης, ὅθεν ἀργύρου ἐστὶ γενέθλη· "
οὐ γὰρ ἕξει λέγειν·
First, therefore, we shall ask him who are the Halizones inside the Halys, who also came "from far-off Alube, where is the birthplace of silver;" for he will not be able to say.
ἔπειτα τὴν αἰτίαν διʼ ἣν οὐ συγχωρεῖ καὶ ἐκ τῆς περαίας ἀφῖχθαί τινα συμμαχίαν· καὶ γὰρ εἰ τὰς ἄλλας ἐντὸς εἶναι τοῦ ποταμοῦ πάσας συμβαίνει πλὴν τῶν Θρᾳκῶν, μίαν γε ταύτην οὐδὲν ἐκώλυε πέραθεν ἀφῖχθαι ἐκ τῆς ἐπέκεινα τῶν Λευκοσύρων.
Next, we shall ask him the reason why he does not concede that some alliance also arrived from the other side; for even if it happens that all the other alliances, except the Thracians, were from inside the river, nothing prevented this single alliance from arriving from the other side, from the region beyond the Leuco-Syrians.
ἢ πολεμήσοντας μὲν ἦν δυνατὸν διαβαίνειν ἐκ τῶν τόπων τούτων καὶ τῶν ἐπέκεινα, καθάπερ τὰς Ἀμαζόνας καὶ Τρῆρας καὶ Κιμμερίους φασί, συμμαχήσοντας δʼ ἀδύνατον;
Or was it possible to cross over from these places and those beyond to make war, as they say the Amazons, Treres, and Cimmerians did, but impossible to make an alliance?
αἱ μὲν οὖν Ἀμαζόνες οὐ συνεμάχουν διὰ τὸ τὸν Πρίαμον πολεμῆσαι πρὸς αὐτὰς συμμαχοῦντα τοῖς Φρυξὶν
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ἤματι τῷ ὅτε τʼ ἦλθον Ἀμαζόνες ἀντιάνειραι
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φησὶν ὁ Πρίαμος
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καὶ γὰρ ἐγὼν ἐπίκουρος ἐὼν μετὰ τοῖσιν ἐλέγμην. "
οἱ δʼ ὁμοροῦντες αὐταῖς, οὔθʼ οὕτως ἄπωθεν ὄντες ὥστε χαλεπὴν εἶναι τὴν ἐκεῖθεν μετάπεμψιν οὔτʼ ἔχθρας ὑποκειμένης, οὐδὲν ἐκωλύοντο οἶμαι συμμαχεῖν.
Now, the Amazons did not fight as allies because Priam had fought against them, acting as an ally to the Phrygians "on that day when the Amazons came, a match for men," Priam says, "for I too, being an ally, was numbered among them." But those who bordered them, being neither so far away that the summoning from there was difficult, nor with any underlying hostility, were in no way prevented, I think, from fighting as allies.
§12.3.25ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ δόξαν ἔχει τοιαύτην τῶν παλαιῶν εἰπεῖν ὡς συμφωνούντων ἁπάντων μηδένας ἐκ τῆς περαίας τοῦ Ἅλυος κοινωνῆσαι τοῦ Τρωικοῦ πολέμου.
But neither is it reasonable to state such an opinion of the ancients as though all agreed that no one from the other side of the Halys shared in the Trojan War.
πρὸς τοὐναντίον δὲ μᾶλλον εὕροι τις ἂν μαρτυρίας·
On the contrary, one would rather find testimonies.
Μαιάνδριος γοῦν ἐκ τῶν Λευκοσύρων φησὶ τοὺς Ἐνετοὺς ὁρμηθέντας συμμαχῆσαι τοῖς Τρωσίν, ἐκεῖθεν δὲ μετὰ τῶν Θρᾳκῶν ἀπᾶραι καὶ οἰκῆσαι περὶ τὸν τοῦ Ἀδρίου μυχόν, τοὺς δὲ μὴ μετασχόντας τῆς στρατείας Ἐνετοὺς Καππάδοκας γενέσθαι.
Maandrius, at any rate, says that the Eneti, setting out from the territory of the Leuco-Syrians, fought as allies with the Trojans, and from there departed with the Thracians and settled around the recess of the Adriatic, and that the Eneti who did not share in the expedition became Cappadocians.
συνηγορεῖν δʼ ἂν δόξειε τῷ λόγῳ τούτῳ, διότι πᾶσα ἡ πλησίον τοῦ Ἅλυος Καππαδοκία ὅση παρατείνει τῇ Παφλαγονίᾳ ταῖς δυσὶ χρῆται διαλέκτοις καὶ τοῖς ὀνόμασι πλεονάζει τοῖς Παφλαγονικοῖς, Βάγας καὶ Βιάσας καὶ Αἰνιάτης καὶ Ῥατώτης καὶ Ζαρδώκης καὶ Τίβιος καὶ Γάσυς καὶ Ὀλίγασυς καὶ Μάνης· ταῦτα γὰρ ἔν τε τῇ Φαζημωνίτιδι καὶ τῇ Πιμωλισίτιδι καὶ τῇ Γαζηλωνίτιδι καὶ Γαζακηνῇ καὶ ἄλλαις πλείσταις χώραις ἐπιπολάζει τὰ ὀνόματα.
And this account would seem to be supported by the fact that the whole of Cappadocia near the Halys, as far as it extends along Paphlagonia, uses two dialects and abounds in Paphlagonian names, such as Bagas, Biasas, Ainiates, Rhates, Zardoces, Tibios, Gasys, Oligasys, and Manes; for these names prevail in Phazemonitis, Pimolisitis, Gazelonitis, Gazacene, and many other districts.
αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ Ἀπολλόδωρος παρατίθησι τὸ τοῦ Ζηνοδότου ὅτι γράφει
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ἐξ Ἐνετῆς, ὅθεν ἡμιόνων γένος ἀγροτεράων. "
ταύτην δέ φησιν Ἑκαταῖον τὸν Μιλήσιον δέχεσθαι τὴν Ἀμισόν· ἡ δʼ Ἀμισὸς εἴρηται διότι τῶν Λευκοσύρων ἐστὶ καὶ ἐκτὸς τοῦ Ἅλυος.
Apollodorus himself adduces the reading of Zenodotus, namely that he writes: "from Enete, whence is the race of wild mules." And he says that Hecataeus of Miletus takes this to mean Amisus; and Amisus has been stated to belong to the Leuco-Syrians and to be outside the Halys.
§12.3.26εἴρηται δʼ αὐτῷ που καὶ διότι ὁ ποιητὴς ἱστορίαν εἶχε τῶν Παφλαγόνων τῶν ἐν τῇ μεσογαίᾳ παρὰ τῶν πεζῇ διελθόντων τὴν χώραν, τὴν παραλίαν δʼ ἠγνόει, καθάπερ καὶ τὴν ἄλλην τὴν Ποντικήν· ὠνόμαζε γὰρ αὐτήν.
And it has been stated by him somewhere also that the poet had information about the Paphlagonians in the interior from those who had traversed the country on foot, but was ignorant of the coast, just as of the rest of the Pontic coast; for he named it.
τοὐναντίον δʼ ἔστιν ἀναστρέψαντα εἰπεῖν ἐκ τῆς περιοδείας ὁρμηθέντα τῆς ἀποδοθείσης νυνί, ὡς τὴν μὲν παραλίαν πᾶσαν ἐπελήλυθε καὶ οὐδὲν τῶν ὄντων τότε ἀξίων μνήμης παραλέλοιπεν· εἰ δʼ Ἡράκλειαν καὶ Ἄμαστριν καὶ Σινώπην οὐ λέγει τὰς μήπω συνῳκισμένας οὐδὲν θαυμαστόν· τὴν δὲ μεσόγαιαν οὐδὲν ἄτοπον εἰ μὴ εἴρηκε.
On the contrary, one may turn it around and say, starting from the circuit now presented, that he traversed the whole coast and omitted nothing of what was then worthy of mention; and if he does not mention Heracleia, Amastris, and Sinope, which were not yet founded, it is no wonder; and as for the interior, there is nothing strange if he has not spoken of it.
καὶ τὸ μὴ ὀνομάζειν δὲ πολλὰ τῶν γνωρίμων οὐκ ἀγνοίας ἐστὶ σημεῖον, ὅπερ καὶ ἐν τοῖς ἔμπροσθεν ἐπεσημηνάμεθα· ἀγνοεῖν γὰρ αὐτὸν πολλὰ τῶν ἐνδόξων ἔφη περὶ τὸν Πόντον, οἷον ποταμοὺς καὶ ἔθνη· ὀνομάσαι γὰρ ἄν.
And the fact of not naming many well-known things is not a sign of ignorance, which we also pointed out in what precedes; for he said that the poet was ignorant of many famous things around the Pontus, such as rivers and nations; for otherwise he would have named them.
τοῦτο δʼ ἐπὶ μέν τινων σφόδρα σημειωδῶν δοίη τις ἄν, οἷον Σκύθας καὶ Μαιῶτιν καὶ Ἴστρον.
But this one might grant in the case of some extremely notable things, such as the Scythians, the Maeotis, and the Ister.
οὐ γὰρ διὰ σημείων μὲν τοὺς νομάδας εἴρηκε γαλακτοφάγους ἀβίους τε, δικαιοτάτους ἀνθρώπους, καὶ ἔτι ἀγαυοὺς ἱππημολγούς, Σκύθας δὲ οὐκ ἂν εἶπεν ἢ Σαυρομάτας ἢ Σαρμάτας, εἰ δὴ οὕτως ὠνομάζοντο ὑπὸ τῶν Ἑλλήνων· οὐδʼ ἂν Θρᾳκῶν τε καὶ Μυσῶν μνησθεὶς τῶν πρὸς τῷ Ἴστρῳ αὐτὸν παρεσίγησε μέγιστον τῶν ποταμῶν ὄντα, καὶ ἄλλως ἐπιφόρως ἔχων πρὸς τὸ τοῖς ποταμοῖς ἀφορίζεσθαι τοὺς τόπους, οὐδʼ ἂν Κιμμερίους λέγων παρῆκε τὸν Βόσπορον ἢ τὴν Μαιῶτιν.
For he would not, while describing the nomads by their characteristics as milk-drinkers, without livelihood, the most righteous of men, and also illustrious mare-milkers, have failed to speak of Scythians or Sauromatae or Sarmatae, if indeed they were so named by the Greeks; nor, having mentioned the Thracians and Mysians near the Ister, would he have passed over in silence the river itself, which is the greatest of rivers, especially as he was inclined to define places by rivers, nor, while speaking of the Cimmerians, would he have omitted the Bosporus or the Maeotis.