§13.1.19ἐν δὲ τῷ μεταξὺ Λαμψάκου καὶ Παρίου Παισὸς ἦν πόλις καὶ ποταμός· κατέσπασται δʼ ἡ πόλις, οἱ δὲ Παισηνοὶ μετῴκησαν εἰς Λάμψακον, Μιλησίων ὄντες ἄποικοι καὶ αὐτοί, καθάπερ καὶ οἱ Λαμψακηνοί.
In the interval between Lampsacus and Parium was Paisus, a city and a river; but the city has been demolished, and the Paiseni migrated to Lampsacus, they too being colonists of the Milesians, just as the Lampsacenes were.
ὁ δὲ ποιητὴς εἴρηκεν ἀμφοτέρως, καὶ προσθεὶς τὴν πρώτην συλλαβήν
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καὶ δῆμον Ἀπαισοῦ,
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καὶ ἀφελών
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ὅς ῥʼ ἐνὶ Παισῷ
ναῖε πολυκτήμων
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καὶ ὁ ποταμὸς νῦν οὕτω καλεῖται.
But the poet has spoken of it in both ways, both adding the first syllable: "and the people of Apaisus," and taking it away: "who dwelt in Paisus, rich in possessions." And the river is now called so.
Μιλησίων δʼ εἰσὶ καὶ αἱ Κολωναὶ αἱ ὑπὲρ Λαμψάκου ἐν τῇ μεσογαίᾳ τῆς Λαμψακηνῆς· ἄλλαι δʼ εἰσὶν ἐπὶ τῇ ἐκτὸς Ἑλλησποντίᾳ θαλάττῃ, Ἰλίου διέχουσαι σταδίους τετταράκοντα πρὸς τοῖς ἑκατόν·
Colonae also, which is above Lampsacus in the interior of the Lampsacene territory, belongs to the Milesians; and there is another Colonae on the outer Hellespontine sea, distant one hundred and forty stadia from Ilium, from which they say Cycnus came.
ἐξ ὧν τὸν Κύκνον φασίν. Ἀναξιμένης δὲ καὶ ἐν τῇ Ἐρυθραίᾳ φησὶ λέγεσθαι Κολωνὰς καὶ ἐν τῇ Φωκίδι καὶ ἐν Θετταλίᾳ· ἐν δὲ τῇ Παριανῇ ἔστιν Ἰλιοκολώνη.
And Anaximenes says that Colonae is also spoken of in the Erythraean territory, in Phocis, and in Thessaly; and in the Parian territory there is Iliocolone.
ἐν δὲ τῇ Λαμψακηνῇ τόπος εὐάμπελος Γεργίθιον· ἦν δὲ καὶ πόλις Γέργιθα ἐκ τῶν ἐν τῇ Κυμαίᾳ Γεργίθων· ἦν γὰρ κἀκεῖ πόλις πληθυντικῶς καὶ θηλυκῶς λεγομένη αἱ Γέργιθες, ὅθενπερ ὁ Γεργίθιος ἦν Κεφάλων· καὶ νῦν ἔτι δείκνυται τόπος ἐν τῇ Κυμαίᾳ Γεργίθιον πρὸς Λαρίσῃ.
In the Lampsacene territory there is a place rich in vines, Gergithium; and there was also a city Gergitha, named after the Gergithes in the Cymaean territory; for there was also a city there spoken of in the plural and in the feminine, "ai Gergithes," from which Cephalon the Gergithian came; and even now a place is shown in the Cymaean territory called Gergithium near Larissa.
ἐκ Παρίου μὲν οὖν ὁ γλωσσογράφος κληθεὶς ἦν Νεοπτόλεμος μνήμης ἄξιος, ἐκ Λαμψάκου δὲ Χάρων τε ὁ συγγραφεὺς καὶ Ἀδείμαντος καὶ Ἀναξιμένης ὁ ῥήτωρ καὶ Μητρόδωρος ὁ τοῦ Ἐπικούρου ἑταῖρος· καὶ αὐτὸς δʼ Ἐπίκουρος τρόπον τινὰ Λαμψακηνὸς ὑπῆρξε, διατρίψας ἐν Λαμψάκῳ καὶ φίλοις χρησάμενος τοῖς ἀρίστοις τῶν ἐν τῇ πόλει ταύτῃ, τοῖς περὶ Ἰδομενέα καὶ Λεοντέα.
Now, from Parium came Neoptolemus, called the glossographer, worthy of memory; and from Lampsacus came Charon the historian, Adeimantus, Anaximenes the rhetorician, and Metrodorus the associate of Epicurus; and Epicurus himself was in a certain sense a Lampsacene, having spent time in Lampsacus and having enjoyed the friendship of the best of the people in this city, those around Idomeneus and Leonteus.
ἐντεῦθεν δὲ μετήνεγκεν Ἀγρίππας τὸν πεπτωκότα λέοντα, Λυσίππου ἔργον· ἀνέθηκε δὲ ἐν τῷ ἄλσει τῷ μεταξὺ τῆς λίμνης καὶ τοῦ εὐρίπου.
From here Agrippa transferred the fallen lion, a work of Lysippus; and he dedicated it in the grove between the lake and the euripus.
§13.1.20μετὰ δὲ Λάμψακον ἔστιν Ἄβυδος καὶ τὰ μεταξὺ χωρία, περὶ ὧν οὕτως εἴρηκε συλλαβὼν ὁ ποιητὴς καὶ τὴν Λαμψακηνὴν καὶ τῆς Παριανῆς τινα (οὔπω γὰρ ἦσαν αὗται αἱ πόλεις κατὰ τὰ Τρωικά)
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οἳ δʼ ἄρα Περκώτην καὶ Πράκτιον ἀμφενέμοντο,
καὶ Σηστὸν καὶ Ἄβυδον ἔχον καὶ δῖαν Ἀρίσβην· τῶν αὖθʼ Ὑρτακίδης ἦρχʼ Ἄσιος
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φησίν
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ὃν Ἀρίσβηθεν φέρον ἵπποι
αἴθωνες μεγάλοι ποταμοῦ ἄπο Σελλήεντος. "
οὕτω δʼ εἰπὼν ἔοικε τὸ βασίλειον ἀποφαίνειν τοῦ Ἀσίου τὴν Ἀρίσβην, ὅθεν ἥκειν αὐτόν φησιν
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ὃν Ἀρίσβηθεν φέρον ἵπποι ποταμοῦ
ἄπο Σελλήεντος. "
οὕτω δʼ ἀφανῆ τὰ χωρία ταῦτά ἐστιν ὥστε οὐδʼ ὁμολογοῦσι περὶ αὐτῶν οἱ ἱστοροῦντες, πλὴν ὅτι περὶ Ἄβυδον καὶ Λάμψακόν ἐστι καὶ Πάριον, καὶ ὅτι ἡ πάλαι Περκώτη μετωνομάσθη ὁ τόπος.
After Lampsacus comes Abydus and the intermediate places, concerning which the poet spoke thus, grouping together both the Lampsacene territory and some of the Parian (for these cities did not yet exist in the times of the Trojan War): "And those who dwelt about Percote and Practius, and possessed Sestus and Abydus and divine Arisbe; these again Asius son of Hyrtacus led," he says: "whom from Arisbe his great, swift horses bore, from the river Selleïs." And speaking thus, he seems to declare Arisbe to be the royal residence of Asius, from where he says he came: "whom from Arisbe his horses bore, from the river Selleïs." But these places are so obscure that those who write history do not even agree about them, except that they are in the neighborhood of Abydus, Lampsacus, and Parium, and that the place formerly called Percote was renamed.
§13.1.21τῶν δὲ ποταμῶν τὸν μὲν Σελλήεντά φησιν ὁ ποιητὴς πρὸς τῇ Ἀρίσβῃ ῥεῖν, εἴπερ ὁ Ἄσιος Ἀρίσβηθέν τε ἧκε καὶ ποταμοῦ ἄπο Σελλήεντος·
As for the rivers, the poet says that the Selleïs flows near Arisbe, if indeed Asius came both from Arisbe and from the river Selleïs.
ὁ δὲ Πράκτιος ποταμὸς μὲν ἔστι, πόλις δʼ οὐχ εὑρίσκεται, ὥς τινες ἐνόμισαν· ῥεῖ δὲ καὶ οὗτος μεταξὺ Ἀβύδου καὶ Λαμψάκου·
The Practius is indeed a river, but no city is found, as some have supposed; and this also flows between Abydus and Lampsacus.
τὸ οὖν
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καὶ Πράκτιον ἀμφενέμοντο
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οὕτω δεκτέον ὡς περὶ ποταμοῦ, καθάπερ κἀκεῖνα
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οἵ τʼ ἄρα πὰρ ποταμὸν Κηφισὸν δῖον ἔναιον,
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καὶ
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ἀμφί τε Παρθένιον ποταμὸν κλυτὰ ἔργʼ ἐνέμοντο. "
ἦν δὲ καὶ ἐν Λέσβῳ πόλις Ἀρίσβα, ἧς τὴν χώραν ἔχουσι Μηθυμναῖοι· ἔστι δὲ καὶ ποταμὸς Ἄρισβος ἐν Θρᾴκῃ, ὥσπερ εἴρηται, καὶ τούτου πλησίον οἱ Κεβρήνιοι Θρᾷκες.
Therefore, the phrase: "and they dwelt about Practius" must be understood as referring to the river, just like those examples: "And those who dwelt by the divine river Cephisus," and: "and about the river Parthenius they cultivated glorious works." There was also a city Arisba in Lesbos, whose land the Methymnaeans possess; and there is also a river Arisbus in Thrace, as has been said, and near this are the Cebrenian Thracians.
πολλαὶ δʼ ὁμωνυμίαι Θρᾳξὶ καὶ Τρωσίν, οἷον Σκαιοὶ Θρᾷκές τινες καὶ Σκαιὸς ποταμὸς καὶ Σκαιὸν τεῖχος καὶ ἐν Τροίᾳ Σκαιαὶ πύλαι· Ξάνθιοι Θρᾷκες, Ξάνθος ποταμὸς ἐν Τροίᾳ· Ἄρισβος ὁ ἐμβάλλων εἰς τὸν Ἕβρον, Ἀρίσβη ἐν Τροίᾳ· Ῥῆσος ποταμὸς ἐν Τροίᾳ, Ῥῆσος δὲ καὶ ὁ βασιλεὺς τῶν Θρᾳκῶν.
And there are many homonyms between Thracians and Trojans; for example, there are Scaeans, a certain Thracian people, and a Scaean river, and a Scaean wall, and in Troy the Scaean gates; Xanthian Thracians, and a Xanthos river in Troy; Arisbus which empties into the Hebrus, and Arisbe in Troy; Rhesus a river in Troy, and Rhesus the king of the Thracians.
ἔστι δὲ καὶ τῷ Ἀσίῳ ὁμώνυμος ἕτερος παρὰ τῷ ποιητῇ Ἄσιος
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ὃς μήτρως ἦν Ἕκτορος ἱπποδάμοιο,
αὐτοκασίγνητος Ἑκάβης, υἱὸς δὲ Δύμαντος,
ὃς Φρυγίην ναίεσκε ῥοῇς ἐπὶ Σαγγαρίοιο. "
There is also another Asius in the poet, homonymous with this Asius: "who was the uncle of horse-taming Hector, full brother of Hecuba, and son of Dymas, who used to dwell in Phrygia by the streams of Sangarius."