§12.3.9τοὺς δὲ Παφλαγόνας πρὸς ἕω μὲν ὁρίζει ὁ Ἅλυς ποταμός
"ῥέων ἀπὸ μεσημβρίης μεταξὺ Σύρων τε καὶ Παφλαγόνων ἐξίει"
κατὰ τὸν Ἡρόδοτον
"ἐς τὸν Εὔξεινον καλεόμενον πόντον,"
Σύρους λέγοντα τοὺς Καππάδοκας· καὶ γὰρ ἔτι καὶ νῦν Λευκόσυροι καλοῦνται, Σύρων καὶ τῶν ἔξω τοῦ Ταύρου λεγομένων·
On the east, the Paphlagonians are bounded by the Halys River, which, according to Herodotus, "flowing from the south, issues between the Syrians and the Paphlagonians into the sea called Euxine," he calling the Cappadocians "Syrians"; for indeed even now they are called Leuco-Syrians (White Syrians), since while those called Syrians are the people outside the Taurus, yet in comparison with those inside the Taurus, because the former have their skin sunburnt and these do not, it came about that they received this name.
κατὰ δὲ τὴν πρὸς τοὺς ἐντὸς τοῦ Ταύρου σύγκρισιν, ἐκείνων ἐπικεκαυμένων τὴν χρόαν τούτων δὲ μή, τοιαύτην τὴν ἐπωνυμίαν γενέσθαι συνέβη· καὶ Πίνδαρός φησιν ὅτι αἱ Ἀμαζόνες
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Σύριον εὐρυαίχμαν δίεπον στρατόν,
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τὴν ἐν τῇ Θεμισκύρᾳ κατοικίαν οὕτω δηλῶν.
And Pindar says that the Amazons "swayed a Syrian army with broad spears," designating in this way their settlement in Themiscyra.
ἡ δὲ Θεμίσκυρά ἐστιν τῶν Ἀμισηνῶν, αὕτη δὲ Λευκοσύρων τῶν μετὰ τὸν Ἅλυν.
And Themiscyra belongs to the territory of the Amiseni, and this belongs to the Leuco-Syrians after the Halys.
πρὸς ἕω μὲν τοίνυν ὁ Ἅλυς ὅριον τῶν Παφλαγόνων, πρὸς νότον δὲ Φρύγες καὶ οἱ ἐποικήσαντες Γαλάται, πρὸς δύσιν δὲ Βιθυνοὶ καὶ Μαριανδυνοί (τὸ γὰρ τῶν Καυκώνων γένος ἐξέφθαρται τελέως πάντοθεν), πρὸς ἄρκτον δὲ ὁ Εὔξεινος ἔστι.
To the east, then, the Halys is the boundary of the Paphlagonians, to the south are the Phrygians and the Galatians who migrated there, to the west are the Bithynians and the Mariandyni (for the tribe of the Caucones has completely disappeared from everywhere), and to the north is the Euxine.
τῆς δὲ χώρας ταύτης διῃρημένης εἴς τε τὴν μεσόγαιαν καὶ τὴν ἐπὶ θαλάττῃ διατείνουσαν ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἅλυος μέχρι Βιθυνίας, ἑκατέραν τὴν μὲν παραλίαν ἕως τῆς Ἡρακλείας εἶχεν ὁ Εὐπάτωρ, τῆς δὲ μεσογαίας τὴν μὲν ἐγγυτάτω ἔσχεν, ἧς τινα καὶ πέραν τοῦ Ἅλυος διέτεινε (καὶ μέχρι δεῦρο τοῖς Ῥωμαίοις ἡ Ποντικὴ ἐπαρχία ἀφώρισται), τὰ λοιπὰ δʼ ἦν ὑπὸ δυνάσταις καὶ μετὰ τὴν Μιθριδάτου κατάλυσιν.
This country being divided into the interior and the part extending along the sea from the Halys as far as Bithynia, Eupator held both the coastline as far as Heracleia, and of the interior he held the part nearest to him, some of which extended even beyond the Halys (and up to this point the Pontic province has been defined for the Romans), while the rest was under dynasts even after the overthrow of Mithridates.
περὶ μὲν δὴ τῶν ἐν τῇ μεσογαίᾳ Παφλαγόνων ἐροῦμεν ὕστερον τῶν μὴ ὑπὸ τῷ Μιθριδάτῃ, νῦν δὲ πρόκειται τὴν ὑπʼ ἐκείνῳ χώραν, κληθεῖσαν δὲ Πόντον, διελθεῖν.
Now we shall speak later about the Paphlagonians in the interior who were not under Mithridates, but at present our task is to go through the country that was under him, which was called Pontus.
§12.3.10μετὰ δὴ τὸν Παρθένιον ποταμὸν ἔστιν Ἄμαστρις ὁμώνυμος τῆς συνῳκικυίας πόλις· ἵδρυται δʼ ἐπὶ χερρονήσου λιμένας ἔχουσα τοῦ ἰσθμοῦ ἑκατέρωθεν·
After the Parthenius River is Amastris, a city of the same name as the woman who founded it by synoecism; it is situated on a peninsula, having harbors on both sides of the isthmus.
ἦν δʼ ἡ Ἄμαστρις γυνὴ μὲν Διονυσίου τοῦ Ἡρακλείας τυράννου, θυγάτηρ δὲ Ὀξυάθρου τοῦ Δαρείου ἀδελφοῦ τοῦ κατὰ Ἀλέξανδρον.
And Amastris was the wife of Dionysius the tyrant of Heracleia, and the daughter of Oxyathres the brother of the Darius who lived in the time of Alexander.
ἐκείνη μὲν οὖν ἐκ τεττάρων κατοικιῶν συνῴκισε τὴν πόλιν, ἔκ τε Σησάμου καὶ Κυτώρου καὶ Κρώμνης (ὧν καὶ Ὅμηρος μέμνηται ἐν τῷ Παφλαγονικῷ διακόσμῳ), τετάρτης δὲ τῆς Τίου· ἀλλʼ αὕτη μὲν ταχὺ ἀπέστη τῆς κοινωνίας, αἱ δὲ ἄλλαι συνέμειναν, ὧν ἡ Σήσαμος ἀκρόπολις τῆς Ἀμάστρεως λέγεται.
She, then, founded the city by synoecism from four settlements, namely Sesamum, Cytorum, Cromna (of which Homer also makes mention in the Paphlagonian Catalogue), and fourth, Tieium; but this latter soon withdrew from the union, while the others remained together, of which Sesamum is called the acropolis of Amastris.
τὸ δὲ Κύτωρον ἐμπόριον ἦν ποτε Σινωπέων, ὠνόμασται δʼ ἀπὸ Κυτώρου τοῦ Φρίξου παιδός, ὡς Ἔφορός φησι.
And Cytorum was once an emporium of the Sinopeans, and it was named after Cytorus the son of Phrixus, as Ephorus says.
πλείστη δὲ καὶ ἀρίστη πύξος φύεται κατὰ τὴν Ἀμαστριανήν, καὶ μάλιστα περὶ τὸ Κύτωρον.
The greatest amount and the best boxwood grows in the territory of Amastris, and especially around Cytorum.
ὁ δὲ Αἰγιαλὸς ἔστι μὲν ᾐὼν μακρὰ πλειόνων ἢ ἑκατὸν σταδίων, ἔχει δὲ καὶ κώμην ὁμώνυμον, ἧς μέμνηται ὁ ποιητὴς ὅταν φῇ
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Κρῶμνάν τʼ Αἰγιαλόν τε καὶ ὑψηλοὺς Ἐρυθίνους. "
γράφουσι δέ τινες
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Κρῶμναν Κωβίαλόν τε. "
Ἐρυθίνους δὲ λέγεσθαί φασι τοὺς νῦν Ἐρυθρίνους ἀπὸ τῆς χρόας· δύο δʼ εἰσὶ σκόπελοι.
And Aegialus is a long beach of more than a hundred stadia, and it also has a village of the same name, of which the poet makes mention when he says: "And Cromna, and Aegialus, and lofty Eruthini." But some write: "Cromna and Cobialus." And they say that the Eruthini are called the present Eruthrini from their color; and they are two rocks.
μετὰ δὲ Αἰγιαλὸν Κάραμβις, ἄκρα μεγάλη πρὸς τὰς ἄρκτους ἀνατεταμένη καὶ τὴν Σκυθικὴν χερρόνησον.
After Aegialus is Carambis, a great promontory stretching towards the north and the Scythian peninsula.
ἐμνήσθημεν δʼ αὐτῆς πολλάκις καὶ τοῦ ἀντικειμένου αὐτῇ Κριοῦ μετώπου, διθάλαττον ποιοῦντος τὸν Εὔξεινον πόντον.
We have often mentioned it and the cape opposite to it, Criumetopon, which divides the Euxine Sea into two seas.
μετὰ δὲ Κάραμβιν Κίνωλις καὶ Ἀντικίνωλις καὶ Ἀβώνου τεῖχος πολίχνιον, καὶ Ἀρμένη ἐφʼ ᾗ παροιμιάζονται
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ὅστις ἔργον οὐδὲν εἶχεν Ἀρμένην ἐτείχισεν. "
ἔστι δὲ κώμη τῶν Σινωπέων ἔχουσα λιμένα.
After Carambis are Cinolis, Anticinolis, and the small town of Abonoteichus, and Armene, about which people say in a proverb: "He who had no work walled Armene." It is a village of the Sinopeans, having a harbor.