§12.6.1ἥ τε δὴ Τάττα ἐστί, καὶ τὰ περὶ Ὀρκαόρκους καὶ Πιτνισσὸν καὶ τὰ τῶν Λυκαόνων ὀροπέδια ψυχρὰ καὶ ψιλὰ καὶ ὀναγρόβοτα, ὑδάτων δὲ σπάνις πολλή·
There is indeed Lake Tatta, and the regions around Orcaorci and Pitnissus, and the high plains of the Lycaonians, which are cold, bare, and pastures for wild asses, and there is a great scarcity of water.
ὅπου δὲ καὶ εὑρεῖν δυνατόν, βαθύτατα φρέατα τῶν πάντων, καθάπερ ἐν Σοάτροις, ὅπου καὶ πιπράσκεται τὸ ὕδωρ (ἔστι δὲ κωμόπολις Γαρσαούρων πλησίον)·
Even where it is possible to find water, the wells are the deepest of all, as at Soatra, where water is actually sold (this is a village-town near Garsaoura).
ὅμως δὲ καίπερ ἄνυδρος οὖσα ἡ χώρα πρόβατα ἐκτρέφει θαυμαστῶς, τραχείας δὲ ἐρέας, καί τινες ἐξ αὐτῶν τούτων μεγίστους πλούτους ἐκτήσαντο·
Nevertheless, although the country is waterless, it rears sheep in a wonderful way, though they have coarse wool; and some people have acquired very great wealth from these very flocks.
Ἀμύντας δʼ ὑπὲρ τριακοσίας ἔσχε ποίμνας ἐν τοῖς τόποις τούτοις.
Amyntas had more than three hundred flocks in these places.
εἰσὶ δὲ καὶ λίμναι, Κάραλις μὲν ἡ μείζων ἡ δʼ ἐλάττων Τρωγῖτις.
There are also lakes, the larger being Caralis, and the smaller Trogitis.
ἐνταῦθα δέ που καὶ τὸ Ἰκόνιον ἔστι, πολίχνιον εὖ συνῳκισμένον καὶ χώραν εὐτυχεστέραν ἔχον τῆς λεχθείσης ὀναγροβότου· τοῦτο δʼ εἶχε Πολέμων.
Somewhere here is also Iconium, a well-peopled small town, which has a more fertile territory than the aforementioned wild-ass pasture; this place was held by Polemon.
πλησιάζει δʼ ἤδη τούτοις τοῖς τόποις ὁ Ταῦρος ὁ τὴν Καππαδοκίαν ὁρίζων καὶ τὴν Λυκαονίαν πρὸς τοὺς ὑπερκειμένους Κίλικας τοὺς Τραχειώτας.
The Taurus, which bounds Cappadocia and Lycaonia in the direction of the Cilicians of the rugged parts situated above them, is already drawing near to these places.
Λυκαόνων τε καὶ Καππαδόκων ὅριόν ἐστι τὸ μεταξὺ Κοροπασσοῦ κώμης Λυκαόνων, καὶ Γαρσαούρων πολιχνίου Καππαδόκων· ἔστι δὲ τὸ μεταξὺ διάστημα τῶν φρουρίων τούτων ἑκατὸν εἴκοσί που στάδιοι.
The boundary between the Lycaonians and the Cappadocians is the territory between the Lycaonian village Coropassus and the Cappadocian small town Garsaoura; and the distance between these strongholds is about one hundred and twenty stadia.
§12.6.2τῆς δὲ Λυκαονίας ἐστὶ καὶ ἡ Ἰσαυρικὴ πρὸς αὐτῷ τῷ Ταύρῳ ἡ τὰ Ἴσαυρα ἔχουσα κώμας δύο ὁμωνύμους, τὴν μὲν παλαιὰν καλουμένην, εὐερκῆ· ὑπήκοοι δʼ ἦσαν ταύταις καὶ ἄλλαι κῶμαι συχναί, λῃστῶν δʼ ἅπασαι κατοικίαι.
Belonging to Lycaonia is also the Isaurian country close to the Taurus itself, which contains the two towns of the same name, Isaura, one of which is called Old Isaura and is well fortified; and many other villages were subject to these, and all of them were dwellings of robbers.
παρέσχον δὲ καὶ Ῥωμαίοις πράγματα καὶ τῷ Ἰσαυρικῷ προσαγορευθέντι Πουβλίῳ Σερβιλίῳ, ὃν ἡμεῖς εἴδομεν, ὃς καὶ ταῦτα ὑπέταξε Ῥωμαίοις καὶ τὰ πολλὰ τῶν πειρατῶν ἐρύματα ἐξεῖλε τὰ ἐπὶ τῇ θαλάττῃ.
They caused trouble both to the Romans and to Publius Servilius, surnamed Isauricus, whom we ourselves saw, who also subjugated these places to the Romans and destroyed most of the strongholds of the pirates on the sea.
§12.6.3τῆς δʼ Ἰσαυρικῆς ἔστιν ἐν πλευραῖς ἡ Δέρβη, μάλιστα τῇ Καππαδοκίᾳ ἐπιπεφυκὸς τοῦ Ἀντιπάτρου τυραννεῖον τοῦ Δερβήτου· τοῦ δʼ ἦν καὶ τὰ Λάρανδα·
On the sides of the Isaurian country is Derbe, which lies closest to Cappadocia, the tyranny of Antipater of Derbe; Laranda also belonged to him.
ἐφʼ ἡμῶν δὲ καὶ τὰ Ἴσαυρα καὶ τὴν Δέρβην Ἀμύντας εἶχεν, ἐπιθέμενος τῷ Δερβήτῃ καὶ ἀνελὼν αὐτόν, τὰ δʼ Ἴσαυρα παρὰ τῶν Ῥωμαίων λαβών·
In our time Amyntas held both Isaura and Derbe, having attacked Antipater of Derbe and slain him, and having received Isaura from the Romans.
καὶ δὴ βασίλειον ἑαυτῷ κατεσκεύαζεν ἐνταῦθα, τὴν παλαιὰν Ἴσαυραν ἀνατρέψας. ἐν δὲ τῷ αὐτῷ χωρίῳ καινὸν τεῖχος οἰκοδομῶν οὐκ ἔφθη συντελέσας, ἀλλὰ διέφθειραν αὐτὸν οἱ Κίλικες ἐμβαλόντα εἰς τοὺς Ὁμοναδεῖς καὶ ἐξ ἐνέδρας ληφθέντα.
Indeed, he was constructing a royal residence for himself there, having razed Old Isaura; and though he was building a new wall in the same place, he did not live to complete it, for the Cilicians destroyed him when he invaded the territory of the Homonadeis and was taken in an ambush.
§12.6.4τὴν γὰρ Ἀντιόχειαν ἔχων τὴν πρὸς τῇ Πισιδίᾳ μέχρι Ἀπολλωνιάδος τῆς πρὸς Ἀπαμείᾳ τῇ Κιβωτῷ καὶ τῆς Παρωρείου τινὰ καὶ τὴν Λυκαονίαν ἐπειρᾶτο τοὺς ἐκ τοῦ Ταύρου κατατρέχοντας Κίλικας καὶ Πισίδας τὴν χώραν ταύτην Φρυγῶν οὖσαν ἐξαιρεῖν, καὶ πολλὰ χωρία ἐξεῖλεν ἀπόρθητα πρότερον ὄντα, ὧν καὶ Κρῆμνα· τὸ δὲ Σανδάλιον οὐδʼ ἐνεχείρησε βίᾳ προσάγεσθαι, μεταξὺ κείμενον τῆς τε Κρήμνης καὶ Σαγαλασσοῦ.
For since he held Antioch near Pisidia as far as Apollonias near Apameia Cibotus, and certain parts of Paroreius, and Lycaonia, he tried to clear out the Cilicians and Pisidians who were overrunning this country, which belonged to the Phrygians, from the Taurus; and he took many places that had previously been impregnable, among which was Cremna; but Sandalium he did not even attempt to take by force, as it lay between Cremna and Sagalassus.
§12.6.5τὴν μὲν οὖν Κρῆμναν ἄποικοι Ῥωμαίων ἔχουσιν, ἡ Σαγαλασσὸς δʼ ἐστὶν ὑπὸ τῷ αὐτῷ ἡγεμόνι τῶν Ῥωμαίων ὑφʼ ᾧ καὶ ἡ Ἀμύντου βασιλεία πᾶσα· διέχει δʼ Ἀπαμείας ἡμέρας ὁδόν, κατάβασιν ἔχουσα σχεδόν τι καὶ τριάκοντα σταδίων ἀπὸ τοῦ ἐρύματος· καλοῦσι δʼ αὐτὴν καὶ Σελγησσόν· ταύτην δὲ τὴν πόλιν καὶ Ἀλέξανδρος εἷλεν.
Now Cremna is held by Roman colonists, and Sagalassus is under the same Roman governor under whom all the kingdom of Amyntas was; it is a day's journey distant from Apameia, having a descent of nearly thirty stadia from the fortress; they call it also Selgessus; and Alexander also took this city.
ὁ δʼ οὖν Ἀμύντας τὴν μὲν Κρῆμναν εἷλεν, εἰς δὲ τοὺς Ὁμοναδέας παρελθών, οἳ ἐνομίζοντο ἀληπτότατοι, καὶ καταστὰς ἤδη κύριος τῶν πλείστων χωρίων ἀνελὼν καὶ τὸν τύραννον αὐτῶν ἐξ ἀπάτης ἐλήφθη διὰ τῆς τοῦ τυράννου γυναικός.
Amyntas, then, took Cremna, and having advanced into the territory of the Homonadeis, who were considered most difficult to capture, and having already become master of most of their strongholds and having slain their tyrant, was taken by stratagem through the wife of the tyrant.
καὶ τοῦτον μὲν ἐκεῖνοι διέφθειραν, ἐκείνους δὲ Κυρίνιος ἐξεπόρθησε λιμῷ καὶ τετρακισχιλίους ἄνδρας ἐζώγρησε καὶ συνῴκισεν εἰς τὰς ἐγγὺς πόλεις, τὴν δὲ χώραν ἀπέλιπεν ἔρημον τῶν ἐν ἀκμῇ.
And while those people destroyed him, Quirinius reduced them by starvation, and captured four thousand men alive, and settled them in the neighboring cities, leaving the land destitute of men in their prime.
ἔστι δὲ ἐν ὑψηλοῖς τοῦ Ταύρου μέρεσι, κρημνοῖς ἀποτόμοις σφόδρα καὶ τὸ πλέον ἀβάτοις, ἐν μέσῳ κοῖλον καὶ εὔγεων πεδίον εἰς αὐλῶνας πλείους διῃρημένον·
This territory is in the high parts of the Taurus, surrounded by extremely abrupt and for the most part inaccessible cliffs, having in its center a hollow and fertile plain divided into several valleys; and tilling this, they lived on the overhanging ridges or in caves.
τοῦτο δὲ γεωργοῦντες ᾤκουν ἐν ταῖς ὑπερκειμέναις ὀφρύσιν ἢ σπηλαίοις, τὰ πολλὰ δʼ ἔνοπλοι ἦσαν καὶ κατέτρεχον τὴν ἀλλοτρίαν ἔχοντες ὄρη τειχίζοντα τὴν χώραν αὐτῶν.
For the most part they were armed and used to overrun the territory of others, having mountains that fortified their country.