§13.1.13ἐκαλεῖτο δʼ ἡ χώρα αὕτη Ἀδράστεια καὶ Ἀδραστείας πεδίον, κατὰ ἔθος τι οὕτω λεγόντων τὸ αὐτὸ χωρίον διττῶς, ὡς καὶ Θήβην καὶ Θήβης πεδίον, καὶ Μυγδονίαν καὶ Μυγδονίας πεδίον.
This country was called Adrasteia and the plain of Adrasteia, according to a habit of speaking of the same place in two ways, just as we say Thebe and the plain of Thebe, and Mygdonia and the plain of Mygdonia.
φησὶ δὲ Καλλισθένης ἀπὸ Ἀδράστου βασιλέως, ὃς πρῶτος Νεμέσεως ἱερὸν ἱδρύσατο, καλεῖσθαι Ἀδράστειαν.
Callisthenes says that Adrasteia was named after King Adrastus, who first founded a temple of Nemesis.
ἡ μὲν οὖν πόλις μεταξὺ Πριάπου καὶ Παρίου, ἔχουσα ὑποκείμενον πεδίον ὁμώνυμον, ἐν ᾧ καὶ μαντεῖον ἦν Ἀπόλλωνος Ἀκταίου καὶ Ἀρτέμιδος κατὰ τὴν εἰς δὲ Πάριον μετηνέχθη πᾶσα ἡ κατασκευὴ καὶ λιθεία κατασπασθέντος τοῦ ἱεροῦ, καὶ ᾠκοδομήθη ἐν τῷ Παρίῳ βωμὸς, Ἑρμοκρέοντος ἔργον, πολλῆς μνήμης ἄξιον κατά τε μέγεθος καὶ κάλλος· τὸ δὲ μαντεῖον ἐξελείφθη, καθάπερ καὶ τὸ ἐν Ζελείᾳ.
Now, the city is between Priapus and Parium, having below it a plain of the same name, in which there was also an oracle of Apollo Actaeus and Artemis around the [...]. But when the temple was demolished, all the furnishings and stonework were transferred to Parium, and an altar was built in Parium, a work of Hermocreon, highly worthy of memory for both its size and beauty; but the oracle was abandoned, just as was the one in Zeleia.
ἐνταῦθα μὲν οὖν οὐδὲν ἱερὸν Ἀδραστείας δείκνυται, οὐδὲ δὴ Νεμέσεως, περὶ δὲ Κύζικον ἔστιν Ἀδραστείας ἱερόν.
Therefore, no temple of Adrasteia is shown here, nor indeed of Nemesis, but around Cyzicus there is a temple of Adrasteia.
Ἀντίμαχος δʼ οὕτω φησίν
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ἔστι δέ τις Νέμεσις μεγάλη θεὸς, ἣ τάδε πάντα
πρὸς μακάρων ἔλαχεν· βωμὸν δέ οἱ εἵσατο πρῶτος
Ἄδρηστος, ποταμοῖο παρὰ ῥόον Αἰσήποιο,
ἔνθα τετίμηταί τε καὶ Ἀδρήστεια καλεῖται. " §13.1.14ἔστι δὲ καὶ τὸ Πάριον πόλις ἐπὶ θαλάττῃ, λιμένα ἔχουσα μείζω τῆς Πριάπου καὶ ηὐξημένη γε ἐκ ταύτης· θεραπεύοντες γὰρ οἱ Παριανοὶ τοὺς Ἀτταλικοὺς ὑφʼ οἷς ἐτέτακτο ἡ Πριαπηνή, πολλὴν αὐτῆς ἀπετέμοντο ἐπιτρεπόντων ἐκείνων.
Antimachus speaks thus: "And there is a certain Nemesis, a great goddess, who received all these things from the blessed ones; and Adrastus first built an altar for her by the stream of the river Aesepus, where she is honored and called Adrasteia." Parium is also a city on the sea, possessing a harbor larger than that of Priapus, and indeed it has been increased from the latter; for the Pariani, currying favor with the Attalic kings under whom the Priapene territory was placed, cut off much of it, the kings permitting it.
ἐνταῦθα μυθεύουσι τοὺς Ὀφιογενεῖς συγγένειάν τινα ἔχειν πρὸς τοὺς ὄφεις· φασὶ δʼ αὐτῶν τοὺς ἄρρενας τοῖς ἐχεοδήκτοις ἄκος εἶναι συνεχῶς ἐφαπτομένους ὥσπερ τοὺς ἐπῳδούς, πρῶτον μὲν τὸ πελίωμα εἰς ἑαυτοὺς μεταφέροντας, εἶτα καὶ τὴν φλεγμονὴν παύοντας καὶ τὸν πόνον.
Here they mythologize that the Ophiogeneis have some kinship with serpents; and they say that the males of them are a cure for those bitten by vipers, by touching them continuously just like charmers, first transferring the lividity to themselves, and then stopping both the inflammation and the pain.
μυθεύουσι δὲ τὸν ἀρχηγέτην τοῦ γένους ἥρωά τινα ἐξ ὄφεως μεταβαλεῖν· τάχα δὲ τῶν Ψύλλων τις ἦν τῶν Λιβυκῶν, εἰς δὲ τὸ γένος διέτεινεν ἡ δύναμις μέχρι ποσοῦ.
They mythologize that the founder of the race, a certain hero, transformed from a serpent; perhaps he was one of the Libyan Psylli, and the power extended to his descendants to some extent.
κτίσμα δʼ ἐστὶ τὸ Πάριον Μιλησίων καὶ Ἐρυθραίων καὶ Παρίων.
Parium is a foundation of Milesians, Erythraeans, and Parians.
§13.1.15Πιτύα δʼ ἐστὶν ἐν Πιτυοῦντι τῆς Παριανῆς ὑπερκείμενον ἔχουσα πιτυῶδες ὄρος· μεταξὺ δὲ κεῖται Παρίου καὶ Πριάπου κατὰ Λίνον χωρίον ἐπὶ θαλάττῃ, ὅπου οἱ Λινούσιοι κοχλίαι ἄριστοι τῶν πάντων ἁλίσκονται.
Pitya is in Pityus in the Parian territory, having above it a pine-clad mountain; and it lies between Parium and Priapus near Linum, a place on the sea, where the Linusian snails, the best of all, are caught.
§13.1.16ἐν δὲ τῷ παράπλῳ τῷ ἀπὸ Παρίου εἰς Πρίαπον ἥ τε παλαιὰ Προκόννησός ἐστι καὶ ἡ νῦν Προκόννησος, πόλιν ἔχουσα καὶ μέταλλον μέγα λευκοῦ λίθου σφόδρα ἐπαινούμενον· τὰ γοῦν κάλλιστα τῶν ταύτῃ πόλεων ἔργα, ἐν δὲ τοῖς πρῶτα τὰ ἐν Κυζίκῳ ταύτης ἐστὶ τῆς λίθου.
On the coastal voyage from Parium to Priapus are both the old Proconnesus and the present Proconnesus, which has a city and a great quarry of white stone, highly praised; at any rate, the most beautiful works of the cities in these parts, and among the first those in Cyzicus, are made of this stone.
ἐντεῦθέν ἐστιν Ἀριστέας ὁ ποιητὴς τῶν Ἀριμασπείων καλουμένων ἐπῶν, ἀνὴρ γόης εἴ τις ἄλλος.
From here came Aristeas, the poet of the epic verses called the Arimaspeia, a man who was a magician if ever there was one.
§13.1.17τὸ δὲ Τηρείης ὄρος οἱ μὲν τὰ ἐν Πειρωσσῷ ὄρη φασὶν ἃ ἔχουσιν οἱ Κυζικηνοὶ τῇ Ζελείᾳ προσεχῆ, ἐν οἷς βασιλικὴ θήρα κατεσκεύαστο τοῖς Λυδοῖς, καὶ Πέρσαις ὕστερον· οἱ δʼ ἀπὸ τετταράκοντα σταδίων Λαμψάκου δεικνύουσι λόφον, ἐφʼ ᾧ μητρὸς θεῶν ἱερόν ἐστιν ἅγιον Τηρείης ἐπικαλούμενον.
As for Mt. Teria, some say it refers to the mountains in Peirossus which the Cyzicenes possess adjacent to Zeleia, in which a royal hunting-ground was established for the Lydians, and later for the Persians; but others point to a hill forty stadia away from Lampsacus, on which there is a holy temple of the Mother of the Gods, called Teria.
§13.1.18καὶ ἡ Λάμψακος δʼ ἐπὶ θαλάττῃ πόλις ἐστὶν εὐλίμενος καὶ ἀξιόλογος, συμμένουσα καλῶς, ὥσπερ καὶ ἡ Ἄβυδος· διέχει δʼ αὐτῆς ὅσον ἑβδομήκοντα καὶ ἑκατὸν σταδίους· ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ πρότερον Πιτυοῦσσα, καθάπερ καὶ τὴν Χίον φασίν· ἐν δὲ τῇ περαίᾳ τῆς Χερρονήσου πολίχνιόν ἐστι Καλλίπολις· κεῖται δʼ ἐπʼ ἀκτῆς ἐκκειμένη πολὺ πρὸς τὴν Ἀσίαν κατὰ τὴν Λαμψακηνῶν πόλιν, ὥστε τὸ δίαρμα μὴ πλέον εἶναι τετταράκοντα σταδίων.
Lampsacus also is a city on the sea, with a good harbor and of noteworthy importance, surviving well, just as Abydus does; and it is about one hundred and seventy stadia distant from it; and it was formerly called Pityoussa, as they say Chios also was; and on the opposite coast of the Chersonesus is the town of Callipolis; it lies projecting far on a shore towards Asia opposite the city of the Lampsacenes, so that the crossing is not more than forty stadia.