§13.1.47ἦν δὲ τῷ Ἀχαιίῳ συνεχὴς ἥ τε Λάρισα καὶ Κολωναί, τῆς αίας οὖσαι πρότερον, καὶ ἡ νῦν Χρῦσα, ἐφʼ ὕψους τινὸς πετρώδους ὑπὲρ τῆς θαλάττης ἱδρυμένη, καὶ ἡ Ἁμαξιτὸς ἡ τῷ Λεκτῷ ὑποκειμένη συνεχής· νῦν δʼ ἡ Ἀλεξάνδρεια συνεχής ἐστι τῷ Ἀχαιίῳ·
Larisa and Colonae, which formerly belonged to the territory of Tenedos, were continuous with Achaiium, as was the present Chrysa, built on a rocky height above the sea, and Hamaxitus, which lies under Lectum and is continuous with it; but now Alexandria is continuous with Achaiium.
τὰ δὲ πολίσματα ἐκεῖνα συνῳκισμένα τυγχάνει, καθάπερ καὶ ἄλλα πλείω τῶν φρουρίων, εἰς τὴν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν, ὧν καὶ Κεβρήνη καὶ Νεανδρία ἐστὶ καὶ τὴν χώραν ἔχουσιν ἐκεῖνοι· ὁ δὲ τόπος ἐν ᾧ νῦν κεῖται ἡ Ἀλεξάνδρεια Σιγία ἐκαλεῖτο.
These small towns, like several other fortresses, happen to have been merged into Alexandria, among which are Cebrene and Neandria, and they possess their territory; the place where Alexandria is now situated used to be called Sigia.
§13.1.48ἐν δὲ τῇ Χρύσῃ ταύτῃ καὶ τὸ τοῦ Σμινθέως Ἀπόλλωνός ἐστιν ἱερόν, καὶ τὸ σύμβολον τὸ τὴν ἐτυμότητα τοῦ ὀνόματος σῶζον, ὁ μῦς, ὑπόκειται τῷ ποδὶ τοῦ ξοάνου· Σκόπα δʼ ἐστὶν ἔργα τοῦ Παρίου·
And in this Chrysa is also the temple of Smintheus Apollo, and the symbol that preserves the etymology of the name, the mouse, lies under the foot of the wooden image; these are the works of Scopas of Paros.
συνοικειοῦσι δὲ καὶ τὴν ἱστορίαν εἴτε μῦθον τούτῳ τῷ τόπῳ τὴν περὶ τῶν μυῶν.
And they also associate the history, or rather myth, about the mice with this place.
τοῖς γὰρ ἐκ τῆς Κρήτης ἀφιγμένοις Τεύκροις (οὓς πρῶτος παρέδωκε Καλλῖνος ὁ τῆς ἐλεγείας ποιητής, ἠκολούθησαν δὲ πολλοί) χρησμὸς ἦν, αὐτόθι ποιήσασθαι τὴν μονὴν ὅπου ἂν οἱ γηγενεῖς αὐτοῖς ἐπιθῶνται· συμβῆναι δὲ τοῦτʼ αὐτοῖς φασι περὶ Ἁμαξιτόν· νύκτωρ γὰρ πολὺ πλῆθος ἀρουραίων μυῶν ἐξανθῆσαν διαφαγεῖν ὅσα σκύτινα τῶν τε ὅπλων καὶ τῶν χρηστηρίων· τοὺς δὲ αὐτόθι μεῖναι· τούτους δὲ καὶ τὴν Ἴδην ἀπὸ τῆς ἐν Κρήτῃ προσονομάσαι.
For to the Teucrians who had arrived from Crete (whom Callinus the elegiac poet was the first to record, and many followed him), there was an oracle to make their settlement wherever the earth-born should attack them; and they say that this happened to them around Hamaxitus; for by night a great multitude of field mice, having swarmed out, devoured all the leather parts of both their weapons and utensils; and they remained there; and they named Mount Ida after the one in Crete.
Ἡρακλείδης δʼ ὁ Ποντικὸς πληθύοντάς φησι τοὺς μύας περὶ τὸ ἱερὸν νομισθῆναί τε ἱεροὺς καὶ τὸ ξόανον οὕτω κατασκευασθῆναι βεβηκὸς ἐπὶ τῷ μυΐ.
But Heraclides of Pontus says that because the mice swarmed around the temple, they were considered sacred, and the wooden image was thus fashioned standing upon the mouse.
ἄλλοι δʼ ἐκ τῆς Ἀττικῆς ἀφῖχθαί τινα Τεῦκρόν φασιν ἐκ δήμου Τρώων, ὃς νῦν οἱ Ξυπετεῶνες λέγεται, Τεύκρους δὲ μηδένας ἐλθεῖν ἐκ τῆς Κρήτης.
Others say that a certain Teucrus arrived from Attica, from the deme of Troes, which is now called Xypeteones, and that no Teucrians came from Crete.
τῆς δὲ πρὸς τοὺς Ἀττικοὺς ἐπιπλοκῆς τῶν Τρώων τιθέασι σημεῖον καὶ τὸ παρʼ ἀμφοτέροις Ἐριχθόνιόν τινα γενέσθαι τῶν ἀρχηγετῶν.
And as a proof of the connection of the Trojans with the Athenians, they also put forward the fact that Erichthonius was one of the founders among both peoples.
λέγουσι μὲν οὖν οὕτως οἱ νεώτεροι, τοῖς δʼ Ὁμήρου μᾶλλον ἔπεσι συμφωνεῖ τὰ ἐν τῷ Θήβης πεδίῳ καὶ τῇ αὐτόθι Χρύσῃ ἱδρυμένῃ ποτὲ δεικνύμενα ἴχνη, περὶ ὧν αὐτίκα ἐροῦμεν.
Now the later writers speak thus, but the traces shown in the plain of Thebe and in the Chrysa once established there, about which we shall speak immediately, agree better with the verses of Homer.
πολλαχοῦ δʼ ἐστὶ τὸ τοῦ Σμινθέως ὄνομα· καὶ γὰρ περὶ αὐτὴν τὴν Ἁμαξιτὸν χωρὶς τοῦ κατὰ τὸ ἱερὸν Σμινθίου δύο τόποι καλοῦνται Σμίνθια· καὶ ἄλλοι δʼ ἐν τῇ πλησίον Λαρισαίᾳ· καὶ ἐν τῇ Παριανῇ δʼ ἔστι χωρίον τὰ Σμίνθια καλούμενον, καὶ ἐν Ῥόδῳ καὶ ἐν Λίνδῳ, καὶ ἄλλοθι δὲ πολλαχοῦ· καλοῦσι δὲ νῦν τὸ ἱερὸν Σμίνθιον.
And the name of Smintheus is in many places; for around Hamaxitus itself, besides the Sminthium at the temple, two places are called Sminthia; and others in the neighboring Larisaea; and in the territory of Parium there is a place called Sminthia, and in Rhodes, and in Lindus, and in many other places; and they now call the temple Sminthium.
χωρὶς γοῦν καὶ τὸ Ἁλήσιον πεδίον οὐ μέγα ἐντὸς τοῦ Λεκτοῦ καὶ τὸ Τραγασαῖον ἁλοπήγιον αὐτόματον τοῖς ἐτησίαις πηγνύμενον πρὸς Ἁμαξιτῷ.
At any rate, apart from these, there is the Halesian plain, which is not large, within Lectum, and the Tragasaean salt-pan, which solidifies naturally by the Etesian winds, near Hamaxitus.
ἐπὶ δὲ τῷ Λεκτῷ βωμὸς τῶν δώδεκα θεῶν δείκνυται, καλοῦσι δʼ Ἀγαμέμνονος ἵδρυμα· ἐν ἐπόψει δὲ τῷ Ἰλίῳ ἐστὶ τὰ χωρία ταῦτα, ὡς ἐν διακοσίοις σταδίοις ἢ μικρῷ πλείοσιν· ὡς δʼ αὕτως καὶ τὰ περὶ Ἄβυδον ἐκ θατέρου μέρους, μικρὸν δʼ ὅμως ἐγγυτέρω ἡ Ἄβυδος.
And on Lectum an altar of the twelve gods is shown, which they call a foundation of Agamemnon; and these places are in sight of Ilium, at a distance of about two hundred stadia or a little more; and likewise the region around Abydus on the other side, though Abydus is nevertheless a little closer.
§13.1.49κάμψαντι δὲ τὸ Λεκτὸν ἐλλογιμώταται πόλεις τῶν Αἰολέων καὶ ὁ Ἀδραμυττηνὸς κόλπος ἐκδέχεται, ἐν ᾧ τοὺς πλείους τῶν Λελέγων κατοικίζων ὁ ποιητὴς φαίνεται καὶ τοὺς Κίλικας διττοὺς ὄντας.
But when one rounds Lectum, the most notable cities of the Aeolians and the Adramyttene Gulf receive him, in which the poet appears to settle the majority of the Leleges and the Cilicians who were twofold.
ἐνταῦθα δὲ καὶ ὁ τῶν Μιτυληναίων ἐστὶν αἰγιαλός, κώμας τινὰς ἔχων τῶν κατὰ τὴν ἤπειρον τῶν Μιτυληναίων.
And here is also the shore of the Mytilaeneans, having some villages of the Mytilaeneans on the continent.
τὸν δὲ αὐτὸν κόλπον καὶ Ἰδαῖον λέγουσιν· ἡ γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ Λεκτοῦ ῥάχις ἀνατείνουσα πρὸς τὴν Ἴδην ὑπέρκειται τῶν πρώτων τοῦ κόλπου μερῶν, ἐν οἷς πρῶτον τοὺς Λέλεγας ἱδρυμένους ὁ ποιητὴς πεποίηκεν.
And they call the same gulf also Idaean; for the ridge extending from Lectum to Ida lies above the first parts of the gulf, in which the poet has represented the Leleges as first settled.