§13.1.64τὰ οὖν περὶ τοὺς Τεύκρους καὶ τοὺς μύας, ἀφʼ ὧν ὁ Σμινθεύς, ἐπειδὴ σμίνθοι οἱ μύες, δεῦρο μετενεκτέον.
Therefore, the story about the Teucrians and the mice, from which Smintheus is derived (since mice are called sminthoi), must be transferred to this place.
παραμυθοῦνται δὲ τὴν ἀπὸ μικρῶν ἐπίκλησιν τοιούτοις τισί· καὶ γὰρ ἀπὸ τῶν παρνόπων, οὓς οἱ Οἰταῖοι κόρνοπας λέγουσι, Κορνοπίωνα τιμᾶσθαι παρʼ ἐκείνοις Ἡρακλέα ἀπαλλαγῆς ἀκρίδων χάριν· ἰποκτόνον δὲ παρʼ Ἐρυθραίοις τοῖς τὸν Μίμαντα οἰκοῦσιν, ὅτι φθαρτικὸς τῶν ἀμπελοφάγων ἰπῶν· καὶ δὴ παρʼ ἐκείνοις μόνοις τῶν Ἐρυθραίων τὸ θηρίον τοῦτο μὴ γίνεσθαι.
And they justify epithets derived from small things by such examples as these: for instance, from locusts, which the Oetaeans call kornopes, Heracles is honored among them as Kornopion, because of his deliverance from locusts; and as Ipoktonos among the Erythraeans who live near Mount Mimas, because he destroys the ips, insects that devour grapevines; and indeed, they say that among the Erythraeans this pest does not appear in their territory alone.
Ῥόδιοι δὲ ἐρυθιβίου Ἀπόλλωνος ἔχουσιν ἐν τῇ χώρᾳ ἱερόν, τὴν ἐρυσίβην καλοῦντες ἐρυθίβην·
And the Rhodians have in their country a temple of Erythibios Apollo, calling mildew erysibe, but erythibe.
παρʼ Αἰολεῦσι δὲ τοῖς ἐν Ἀσίᾳ μείς τις καλεῖται Πορνοπίων, οὕτω τοὺς πάρνοπας καλούντων Βοιωτῶν, καὶ θυσία συντελεῖται Πορνοπίωνι Ἀπόλλωνι.
And among the Aeolians in Asia, a certain month is called Pornopion, since the Boeotians call locusts pornopes in this way, and a sacrifice is performed to Pornopion Apollo.
§13.1.65Μυσία μὲν οὖν ἔστιν ἡ περὶ τὸ Ἀδραμύττιον·
Now, the territory around Adramyttium is Mysia.
ἦν δέ ποτε ὑπὸ Λυδοῖς, καὶ νῦν πύλαι Λύδιαι καλοῦνται ἐν Ἀδραμυττίῳ, Λυδῶν (ὥς φασι) τὴν πόλιν ἐκτικότων.
It was once under the Lydians, and even now there are gates called Lydian Gates in Adramyttium, because the Lydians (as they say) founded the city.
Μυσίας δὲ Ἄστυρα τὴν πλησίον κώμην φασίν.
And they say that Astyra, the nearby village, belongs to Mysia.
ἦν δὲ πολίχνη ποτέ, ἐν ᾗ τὸ τῆς Ἀστυρηνῆς Ἀρτέμιδος ἱερὸν ἐν ἄλσει, προστατούμενον μετὰ ἁγιστείας ὑπʼ Ἀντανδρίων, οἷς μᾶλλον γειτνιᾷ· διέχει δὲ τῆς παλαιᾶς Χρύσης εἴκοσι σταδίους, καὶ αὐτῆς ἐν ἄλσει τὸ ἱερὸν ἐχούσης.
It was once a small town, in which was the temple of Astyrene Artemis in a grove, superintended with sacred rites by the Antandrians, to whom it is nearer; and it is distant twenty stadia from ancient Chrysa, which itself also had its temple in a grove.
αὐτοῦ δὲ καὶ ὁ Ἀχίλλειος χάραξ· ἐν δὲ τῇ μεσογαίᾳ ἀπὸ πεντήκοντα σταδίων ἐστὶν ἡ Θήβη ἔρημος, ἥν φησιν ὁ ποιητής
ὑπὸ Πλάκῳ ὑληέσσῃ. οὔτε δὲ Πλάκος ἢ Πλὰξ ἐκεῖ τι λέγεται, οὔθʼ ὕλη ὑπέρκειται καίτοι πρὸς τῇ Ἴδῃ.
There also is the camp of Achilles; and in the interior, at a distance of fifty stadia, is the deserted Thebe, which the poet says is "under wooded Placus." But neither Placus nor Plax is named there, nor does any wood lie above it, although it is near Mount Ida.
Ἀστύρων δʼ ἡ Θήβη διέχει εἰς ἑβδομήκοντα σταδίους, Ἀνδείρων δὲ ἑξήκοντα.
And Thebe is distant about seventy stadia from Astyra, and sixty from Andeira.
πάντα δὲ ταῦτά ἐστι τὰ ὀνόματα τόπων ἐρήμων ἢ φαύλως οἰκουμένων ἢ ποταμῶν χειμάρρων· τεθρύληται δὲ διὰ τὰς παλαιὰς ἱστορίας.
All these are names of deserted or poorly inhabited places, or of torrents; but they are celebrated because of ancient histories.
§13.1.66πόλεις δʼ εἰσὶν ἀξιόλογοι Ἄσσος τε καὶ Ἀδραμύττιον.
The noteworthy cities are Assus and Adramyttium.
ἠτύχησε δὲ τὸ Ἀδραμύττιον ἐν τῷ Μιθριδατικῷ πολέμῳ· τὴν γὰρ βουλὴν ἀπέσφαξε τῶν πολιτῶν Διόδωρος στρατηγὸς χαριζόμενος τῷ βασιλεῖ, προσποιούμενος δʼ ἅμα τῶν τε ἐξ Ἀκαδημίας φιλοσόφων εἶναι καὶ δίκας λέγειν καὶ σοφιστεύειν τὰ ῥητορικά·
Adramyttium met with misfortune in the Mithridatic War; for Diodorus the general, in order to gratify the king, massacred the council of the citizens, while pretending at the same time to be one of the philosophers of the Academy, to plead cases, and to teach rhetoric.
καὶ δὴ καὶ συναπῆρεν εἰς τὸν Πόντον τῷ βασιλεῖ· καταλυθέντος δὲ τοῦ βασιλέως ἔτισε δίκας τοῖς ἀδικηθεῖσιν·
And indeed he departed for Pontus with the king; but when the king was overthrown, he paid the penalty to those he had wronged.
ἐγκλημάτων γὰρ ἐπενεχθέντων ἅμα πολλῶν, ἀπεκαρτέρησεν αἰσχρῶς οὐ φέρων τὴν δυσφημίαν ἐν τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ πόλει.
For, many charges being brought against him at the same time, he starved himself to death in a disgraceful manner in our city, unable to bear the ignominy.
ἀνὴρ δὲ Ἀδραμυττηνὸς ῥήτωρ ἐπιφανὴς γεγένηται Ξενοκλῆς, τοῦ μὲν Ἀσιανοῦ χαρακτῆρος, ἀγωνιστὴς δὲ εἴ τις ἄλλος καὶ εἰρηκὼς ὑπὲρ τῆς Ἀσίας ἐπὶ τῆς συγκλήτου καθʼ ὃν καιρὸν αἰτίαν εἶχε Μιθριδατισμοῦ.
And Xenocles, an eminent rhetorician, was an Adramyttian; he belonged to the Asiatic school of style, but was a powerful advocate if ever there was one, having spoken on behalf of Asia before the Senate at the time when Asia was accused of Mithridatism.
§13.1.67πρὸς δὲ τοῖς Ἀστύροις λίμνη καλεῖται Σάπρα βαραθρώδης εἰς ῥαχιώδη τῆς θαλάττης αἰγιαλὸν τὸ ἔκρηγμα ἔχουσα.
And near Astyra there is a lake called Sapra, which is deep and full of pits, and has its outlet on a reefy shore of the sea.
ὑπὸ δὲ τοῖς Ἀνδείροις ἱερόν ἐστι μητρὸς θεῶν Ἀνδειρηνῆς ἅγιον καὶ ἄντρον ὑπόνομον μέχρι Παλαιᾶς.
Under Andeira is a temple sacred to the Mother of the Gods of Andeira, and an underground cave extending as far as Palaia.
ἔστι δʼ ἡ Παλαιὰ κατοικία τις οὕτω καλουμένη, διέχουσα τῶν Ἀνδείρων ἑκατὸν καὶ τριάκοντα σταδίους· ἔδειξε δὲ τὴν ὑπονομὴν χίμαρος ἐμπεσὼν εἰς τὸ στόμα καὶ ἀνευρεθεὶς τῇ ὑστεραίᾳ κατὰ Ἄνδειρα ὑπὸ τοῦ ποιμένος κατὰ τύχην ἐπὶ θυσίαν ἥκοντος.
Palaia is a settlement so called, distant one hundred and thirty stadia from Andeira; and the underground passage was revealed when a goat fell into the mouth and was found the next day near Andeira by the shepherd, who by chance had come for a sacrifice.
Ἀταρνεὺς δʼ ἐστὶ τὸ τοῦ Ἑρμείου τυραννεῖον, εἶτα Πιτάνη πόλις Αἰολική, δύο ἔχουσα λιμένας, καὶ ὁ παραρρέων αὐτὴν ποταμὸς Εὔηνος, ἐξ οὗ τὸ ὑδραγωγεῖον πεποίηται τοῖς Ἀδραμυττηνοῖς.
And Atarneus is the principality of Hermeias; then comes Pitane, an Aeolian city, having two harbors, and the River Evenus flowing past it, from which the aqueduct has been made for the Adramyttians.
ἐκ δὲ τῆς Πιτάνης ἐστὶν Ἀρκεσίλαος ὁ ἐκ τῆς Ἀκαδημίας, Ζήνωνος τοῦ Κιτιέως συσχολαστὴς παρὰ Πολέμωνι.
From Pitane came Arcesilaus of the Academy, a fellow-student of Zeno of Citium under Polemon.
καλεῖται δὲ καὶ ἐν τῇ Πιτάνῃ τις τόπος ἐπὶ θαλάττῃ Ἀταρνεὺς ὑπὸ τῇ Πιτάνῃ κατὰ τὴν καλουμένην νῆσον Ἐλαιοῦσσαν.
And there is also a certain place on the sea in Pitane called Atarneus, below Pitane, opposite the island called Elaeussa.
φασὶ δʼ ἐν τῇ Πιτάνῃ τὰς πλίνθους ἐπιπολάζειν ἐν τοῖς ὕδασι, καθάπερ καὶ ἐν τῇ Τυρρηνίᾳ νησὶς πέπονθε· κουφοτέρα γὰρ ἡ γῆ τοῦ ἐπισόγκου ὕδατός ἐστιν ὥστʼ ἐποχεῖσθαι.
And they say that in Pitane bricks float on the water, as is also the case with a small island in Tyrrhenia; for the earth is lighter than the equivalent volume of water, so that it floats.
ἐν Ἰβηρίᾳ δέ φησιν ἰδεῖν Ποσειδώνιος ἐκ τινος γῆς ἀργιλώδους, ᾗ τὰ ἀργυρώματα ἐκμάττεται, πλίνθους πηγνυμένας καὶ ἐπιπλεούσας.
And Poseidonius says that in Iberia he saw bricks made of a certain clayey earth, with which silver vessels are cleaned, which hardened and floated.
μετὰ δὲ τὴν Πιτάνην ὁ Κάικος εἰς τὸν Ἐλαΐτην καλούμενον κόλπον ἐν τριάκοντα σταδίοις ἐκδίδωσιν.
After Pitane, the Caicus empties into the gulf called Elaites in thirty stadia.
ἐν δὲ τῷ πέραν τοῦ Καΐκου δώδεκα διέχουσα τοῦ ποταμοῦ σταδίους Ἐλαία πόλις Αἰολικὴ καὶ αὕτη, Περγαμηνῶν ἐπίνειον, ἑκατὸν καὶ εἴκοσι σταδίους διέχουσα τοῦ Περγάμου.
On the opposite side of the Caicus, at a distance of twelve stadia from the river, is Elaea, also an Aeolian city, the seaport of the Pergamenians, distant one hundred and twenty stadia from Pergamon.