§13.1.44συμπίπτει δʼ εἰς αὐτὸν ὁ Ἄνδιρος ἀπὸ τῆς Καρησηνῆς, ὀρεινῆς τινος πολλαῖς κώμαις συνοικουμένης καὶ γεωργουμένης καλῶς, παρακειμένης τῇ Δαρδανικῇ μέχρι τῶν περὶ Ζέλειαν καὶ Πιτύειαν τόπων·
And the Andirus flows into it from Caresene, a certain mountainous district inhabited by many villages and well cultivated, adjacent to the Dardanian territory as far as the places around Zeleia and Pityeia.
ὠνομάσθαι δὲ τὴν χώραν φασὶν ἀπὸ τοῦ Καρήσου ποταμοῦ, ὃν ὠνόμακεν ὁ ποιητής
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Ῥῆσός θʼ Ἑπτάπορός τε Κάρησός τε Ῥοδίος τε· "
τὴν δὲ πόλιν κατεσπάσθαι τὴν ὁμώνυμον τῷ ποταμῷ.
And they say that the country was named after the river Caresus, which the poet has named: "Rhesus and Heptaporus and Caresus and Rhodius; "and that the city of the same name as the river was destroyed.
πάλιν δʼ οὕτως φησίν
ὁ μὲν Ῥῆσος ποταμὸς νῦν καλεῖται Ῥοείτης, εἰ μὴ ἄρα ὁ εἰς τὸν Γράνικον ἐμβάλλων Ῥῆσός ἐστιν.
And again he speaks thus: the river Rhesus is now called Roeites, unless indeed the one emptying into the Granicus is the Rhesus.
Ἑπτάπορος δέ, ὃν καὶ Πολύπορον λέγουσιν, ἑπτάκις διαβαινόμενος ἐκ τῶν περὶ τὴν καλὴν πεύκην χωρίων ἐπὶ Μελαινὰς κώμην ἰοῦσι καὶ τὸ Ἀσκληπίειον, ἵδρυμα Λυσιμάχου.
And the Heptaporus, which they also call Polyporus, is crossed seven times by those traveling from the places around the beautiful pine to the village of Melainae and the Asclepieium, a foundation of Lysimachus.
περὶ δὲ τῆς καλῆς πεύκης Ἄτταλος ὁ πρῶτος βασιλεύσας οὕτως γράφει· τὴν μὲν περίμετρον εἶναί φησι ποδῶν τεττάρων καὶ εἴκοσι, τὸ δὲ ὕψος ἀπὸ μὲν ῥίζης ἀνιέναι ἐπὶ ἑξήκοντα καὶ ἑπτὰ πόδας, εἶτʼ εἰς τρία σχιζομένην ἴσον ἀλλήλων διέχοντα, εἶτα πάλιν συναγομένην εἰς μίαν κορυφήν, ἀποτελοῦσαν τὸ πᾶν ὕψος δυεῖν πλέθρων καὶ πεντεκαίδεκα πηχῶν· Ἀδραμυττίου δὲ διέχει πρὸς ἄρκτον ἑκατὸν καὶ ὀγδοήκοντα σταδίους.
Concerning the beautiful pine, Attalus, the first who ruled as king, writes thus: he says that its circumference is twenty-four feet, and its height from the root rises to sixty-seven feet, then it splits into three equal-distanced branches, and then converges again into one peak, making the total height two plethra and fifteen cubits; and it is distant one hundred and eighty stadia to the north of Adramyttium.
Κάρησος δʼ ἀπὸ Μαλοῦντος ῥεῖ, τόπου τινὸς κειμένου μεταξὺ Παλαισκήψεως καὶ Ἀχαιίου τῆς Τενεδίων περαίας· ἐμβάλλει δὲ εἰς τὸν Αἴσηπον.
And the Caresus flows from Malus, a certain place situated between Palaescepsis and Achaiium, the mainland territory of the Tenedians; and it empties into the Aesepus.
Ῥοδίος δὲ ἀπὸ Κλεανδρίας καὶ Γόρδου, ἃ διέχει τῆς καλῆς πεύκης ἑξήκοντα σταδίους· ἐμβάλλει δʼ εἰς τὸν Αἴνιον.
And the Rhodius flows from Cleandria and Gordu, which are distant sixty stadia from the beautiful pine; and it empties into the Aenius.
§13.1.45τοῦ δʼ αὐλῶνος τοῦ περὶ τὸν Αἴσηπον ἐν ἀριστερᾷ τῆς ῥύσεως αὐτοῦ πρῶτον ἔστι Πολίχνα τειχῆρες χωρίον, εἶθʼ ἡ Παλαίσκηψις, εἶτʼ Ἀλαζόνιον.
Of the valley around the Aesepus, on the left of its flow, there is first Polichna, a walled place, then Palaescepsis, then Alazonium.
τοῦτʼ ἤδη πεπλασμένον πρὸς τὴν τῶν Ἁλιζώνων ὑπόθεσιν, περὶ ὧν εἰρήκαμεν.
This latter is already a fabrication to fit the hypothesis of the Halizones, concerning whom we have spoken.
εἶτα Κάρησος ἐρήμη καὶ ἡ Καρησηνὴ καὶ ὁμώνυμος ποταμός, ποιῶν καὶ αὐτὸς αὐλῶνα ἀξιόλογον, ἐλάττω δὲ τοῦ περὶ τὸν Αἴσηπον.
Then deserted Caresus, and Caresene, and the same-named river, itself also making a remarkable valley, though smaller than that around the Aesepus.
τὰ δʼ ἑξῆς ἤδη τὰ τῆς Ζελείας ἐστὶ πεδία καὶ ὀροπέδια καλῶς γεωργούμενα· ἐν δεξιᾷ δὲ τοῦ Αἰσήπου μεταξὺ Πολίχνας τε καὶ Παλαισκήψεως ἡ Νέα κώμη καὶ Ἀργυρία.
The next places are already the plains and plateaus of Zeleia, which are well cultivated; and on the right of the Aesepus, between Polichna and Palaescepsis, are Nea Come and Argyria.
καὶ τοῦτο πάλιν πλάσμα πρὸς τὴν αὐτὴν ὑπόθεσιν, ὅπως σωθείη τὸ
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ὅθεν ἀργύρου ἐστὶ γενέθλη.
And this again is a fabrication to fit the same hypothesis, so that the line might be saved: "whence is the birth of silver.
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ἡ οὖν Ἀλύβη ποῦ ἢ Ἀλόπη ἢ ὅπως βούλονται παρονομάζειν;
"Where then is Alybe, or Alope, or whatever they wish to call it by alteration of name?
ἐχρῆν γὰρ καὶ τοῦτο πλάσαι παρατριψαμένους τὸ μέτωπον, καὶ μὴ χωλὸν ἐᾶν καὶ ἕτοιμον πρὸς ἔλεγχον ἅπαξ ἤδη ἀποτετολμηκότας.
For they ought to fabricate this too, rubbing their forehead, and not leave it lame and ready for exposure, having once dared to make the attempt.
ταῦτα μὲν οὖν ἔνστασιν ἔχει τοιαύτην, τἆλλα δὲ ὑπολαμβάνομεν, ἢ τά γε πλεῖστα, δεῖν προσέχειν ὡς ἀνδρὶ ἐμπείρῳ καὶ ἐντοπίῳ, φροντίσαντί τε τοσοῦτον περὶ τούτων ὥστε τριάκοντα βίβλους συγγράψαι στίχων ἐξήγησιν μικρῷ πλειόνων ἑξήκοντα, τοῦ καταλόγου τῶν Τρώων.
These things indeed admit of such objection, but as for the rest, or at least most of it, we think we must pay attention to him as an experienced and local man, who has cared so much about these matters as to write thirty books of commentary on little more than sixty lines of the Catalogue of the Trojans.
φησὶ δʼ οὖν τὴν Παλαίσκηψιν τῆς μὲν Νέας διέχειν πεντήκοντα σταδίους, τοῦ δὲ ποταμοῦ τοῦ Αἰσήπου τριάκοντα· ἀπὸ δὲ τῆς Παλαισκήψεως ταύτης διατεῖναι τὴν ὁμωνυμίαν καὶ εἰς ἄλλους πλείους τόπους.
He says then that Palaescepsis is distant fifty stadia from Nea Come, and thirty from the river Aesepus; and that the same name extends from this Palaescepsis to several other places.
ἐπάνιμεν δὲ ἐπὶ τὴν παραλίαν ὅθενπερ ἀπελίπομεν.
But let us return to the coast from where we left it.
§13.1.46ἔστι δὴ μετὰ τὴν Σιγειάδα ἄκραν καὶ τὸ Ἀχίλλειον ἡ Τενεδίων περαία τὸ Ἀχαίιον καὶ αὐτὴ ἡ Τένεδος, οὐ πλείους τῶν τετταράκοντα σταδίων διέχουσα τῆς ἠπείρου· ἔχει δὲ τὴν περίμετρον ὅσον ὀγδοήκοντα σταδίων καὶ πόλιν Αἰολίδα καὶ λιμένας δύο καὶ ἱερὸν τοῦ Σμινθέως Ἀπόλλωνος, καθάπερ καὶ ὁ ποιητὴς μαρτυρεῖ
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Τενέδοιό τε ἶφι ἀνάσσεις,
Σμινθεῦ.
After the Sigean promontory and the Achilleium is the mainland territory of the Tenedians, Achaiium, and Tenedos itself, which is distant no more than forty stadia from the mainland; and it has a circumference of about eighty stadia, and an Aeolian city, and two harbors, and a temple of Smintheus Apollo, just as the poet also testifies: "And over Tenedos dost thou rule with might, O Smintheus.
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περίκειται δʼ αὐτῇ νησία πλείω, καὶ δὴ καὶ δύο ἃ καλοῦσι Καλύδνας, κειμένας κατὰ τὸν ἐπὶ Λεκτὸν πλοῦν· καὶ αὐτὴν δὲ τὴν Τένεδον Κάλυδναν τινὲς εἶπον, ἄλλοι δὲ Λεύκοφρυν.
"And several small islands lie around it, and in particular two which they call Calydnae, situated on the voyage to Lectum; and some have called Tenedos itself Calydna, and others Leucophrys.
μυθεύουσι δʼ ἐν αὐτῇ τὰ περὶ τὸν Τέννη ἀφʼ οὗ καὶ τοὔνομα τῇ νήσῳ, καὶ τὰ περὶ τὸν Κύκνον, Θρᾷκα τὸ γένος, πατέρα δʼ, ὥς τινες, τοῦ Τέννου, βασιλέα δὲ Κολωνῶν.
And they mythologize in it the story of Tennes, from whom the island gets its name, and of Cycnus, a Thracian by race, and father, as some say, of Tennes, and king of Colonae.