§13.1.68εἶτʼ ἐν ἑκατὸν σταδίοις ἡ Κάνη, τὸ ἀνταῖρον ἀκρωτήριον τῷ Λεκτῷ καὶ ποιοῦν τὸν Ἀδραμυττηνὸν κόλπον, οὗ μέρος καὶ ὁ Ἐλαϊτικός ἐστι.
Then, at a distance of one hundred stadia, is Kane, the promontory facing Lectum and forming the Adramyttian Gulf, of which the Elaitic Gulf is also a part.
Κάναι δὲ πολίχνιον Λοκρῶν τῶν ἐκ Κύνου κατὰ τὰ ἄκρα τῆς Λέσβου τὰ νοτιώτατα κείμενον ἐν τῇ Καναίᾳ·
Kanai is a small town of the Locrians who came from Cynos, situated in the territory of Kanaia opposite the southernmost extremities of Lesbos.
αὕτη δὲ μέχρι τῶν Ἀργινουσσῶν διήκει καὶ τῆς ὑπερκειμένης ἄκρας, ἣν Αἶγά τινες ὀνομάζουσιν ὁμωνύμως τῷ ζῴῳ.
This territory extends as far as the Arginusae and the promontory lying above them, which some name Aix, homonymously with the animal.
δεῖ δὲ μακρῶς τὴν δευτέραν συλλαβὴν ἐκφέρειν Αἰγάν, ὡς ἀκτὰν καὶ ἀρχάν· οὕτω γὰρ καὶ τὸ ὄρος ὅλον ὠνομάζετο, ὃ νῦν Κάνην καὶ Κάνας λέγουσι.
But one must pronounce the second syllable long, Aigan, like aktan and archan; for in this way the whole mountain was also named, which they now call Kane and Kanai.
κύκλῳ δὲ περὶ τὸ ὄρος πρὸς νότον μὲν καὶ δύσιν ἡ θάλαττα, πρὸς ἕω δὲ τὸ Καΐκου πεδίον ὑπόκειται, πρὸς ἄρκτον δὲ ἡ Ἐλαῗτις· αὐτὸ δὲ καθʼ αὑτὸ ἱκανῶς συνέσταλται, προσνεύει δὲ ἐπὶ τὸ Αἰγαῖον πέλαγος, ὅθεν αὐτῷ καὶ τοὔνομα·
Round about the mountain, on the south and west lies the sea, on the east the plain of the Caicus lies below it, and on the north the Elaitis; and though it is in itself considerably contracted, it projects towards the Aegean Sea, whence also it got its name.
ὕστερον δὲ αὐτὸ τὸ ἀκρωτήριον Αἰγὰ κεκλῆσθαι, τὸ δὲ λοιπὸν Κάνη καὶ Κάναι.
But later the promontory itself was called Aiga, and the rest Kane and Kanai.
§13.1.69μεταξὺ δὲ Ἐλαίας τε καὶ Πιτάνης καὶ Ἀταρνέως καὶ Περγάμου Τευθρανία ἐστί, διέχουσα οὐδεμιᾶς αὐτῶν ὑπὲρ ἑβδομήκοντα σταδίους ἐντὸς τοῦ Καΐκου, καὶ ὁ Τεύθρας Κιλίκων καὶ Μυσῶν ἱστόρηται βασιλεύς.
Between Elaea, Pitane, Atarneus, and Pergamon is Teuthrania, which is distant from none of them more than seventy stadia, within the Caicus; and Teuthras is recorded to have been the king of the Cilicians and Mysians.
Εὐριπίδης δʼ ὑπὸ Ἀλέου φησὶ τοῦ τῆς Αὔγης πατρὸς εἰς λάρνακα τὴν Αὔγην κατατεθεῖσαν ἅμα τῷ παιδὶ Τηλέφῳ καταποντωθῆναι, φωράσαντος τὴν ἐξ Ἡρακλέους φθοράν· Ἀθηνᾶς δὲ προνοίᾳ τὴν λάρνακα περαιωθεῖσαν ἐκπεσεῖν εἰς τὸ στόμα τοῦ Καΐκου, τὸν δὲ Τεύθραντα ἀναλαβόντα τὰ σώματα τῇ μὲν ὡς γαμετῇ χρήσασθαι τῷ δʼ ὡς ἑαυτοῦ παιδί.
And Euripides says that Auge, having been put into a chest together with her child Telephus by Aleus, her father, was cast into the sea, when he discovered her ruin by Heracles; but by the providence of Athena the chest crossed the sea and drifted to the mouth of the Caicus, and Teuthras, having taken up their bodies, treated the former as his wife and the latter as his own child.
τοῦτο μὲν οὖν μῦθος, ἄλλην δέ τινα δεῖ γεγονέναι συντυχίαν, διʼ ἣν ἡ τοῦ Ἀρκάδος θυγάτηρ τῷ Μυσῶν βασιλεῖ συνῆλθε καὶ ὁ ἐξ αὐτῆς διεδέξατο τὴν ἐκείνου βασιλείαν.
This, then, is a myth, and there must have occurred some other circumstance through which the daughter of the Arcadian came to be united with the king of the Mysians and her offspring succeeded to his kingdom.
πεπίστευται δʼ οὖν ὅτι καὶ ὁ Τεύθρας καὶ ὁ Τήλεφος ἐβασίλευσαν τῆς χώρας τῆς περὶ τὴν Τευθρανίαν καὶ τὸν Κάικον, ὁ δὲ ποιητὴς ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον μέμνηται μόνον τῆς ἱστορίας ταύτης
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ἀλλʼ οἷον τὸν Τηλεφίδην κατενήρατο χαλκῷ
ἥρω Εὐρύπυλον, πολλοὶ δʼ ἀμφʼ αὐτὸν ἑταῖροι
Κήτειοι κτείνοντο γυναίων εἵνεκα δώρων,
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αἴνιγμα τιθεὶς ἡμῖν μᾶλλον ἢ λέγων τι σαφές.
At all events, it is believed that both Teuthras and Telephus ruled over the country around Teuthrania and the Caicus, but the poet mentions this history only to this extent: "but how he slew with the bronze the hero Eurypylus, son of Telephus, and many of his Ceteian companions were slain around him because of a woman's gifts," posing a riddle to us rather than saying anything clear.
οὔτε γὰρ τοὺς Κητείους ἴσμεν οὕστινας δέξασθαι δεῖ, οὔτε τὸ
γυναίων εἵνεκα δώρων. ἀλλὰ καὶ οἱ γραμματικοὶ μυθάρια παραβάλλοντες εὑρεσιλογοῦσι μᾶλλον ἢ λύουσι τὰ ζητούμενα.
For we neither know who we should understand the Ceteians to be, nor what is meant by "because of a woman's gifts." But even the grammarians, by comparing various myths, invent ingenious theories rather than solve the questions.
§13.1.70ἐάσθω δὴ ταῦτα, ἐκεῖνο δʼ ὅπερ ἐστὶ μᾶλλον ἐν φανερῷ λαβόντες λέγωμεν, ὅτι ἐν τοῖς περὶ τὸν Κάικον τόποις φαίνεται βεβασιλευκὼς καθʼ Ὅμηρον ὁ Εὐρύπυλος, ὥστʼ ἴσως καὶ τῶν Κιλίκων τι μέρος ἦν ὑπʼ αὐτῷ, καὶ οὐ δύο δυναστεῖαι μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ τρεῖς ὑπῆρξαν ἐν αὐτοῖς.
Let these things be dismissed, and let us speak of what is more manifest, namely, that Eurypylus, according to Homer, appears to have ruled in the regions about the Caicus, so that perhaps a portion of the Cilicians was also under him, and there were not only two dynasties but even three among them.
τῷ δὲ λόγῳ τούτῳ συνηγορεῖ τὸ ἐν τῇ Ἐλαΐτιδι χειμαρρῶδες ποτάμιον δείκνυσθαι Κήτειον· ἐμπίπτει δʼ οὗτος εἰς ἄλλον ὅμοιον, εἶτʼ ἄλλον, καταστρέφουσι δὲ εἰς τὸν Κάικον·
And this argument is supported by the fact that the torrent-river in the Elaitis is shown to be called Ceteium; this empties into another similar one, and then into another, and they terminate in the Caicus.
ὁ δὲ Κάικος οὐκ ἀπὸ τῆς Ἴδης ῥεῖ, καθάπερ εἴρηκε Βακχυλίδης, οὐδʼ ὀρθῶς Εὐριπίδης τὸν Μαρσύαν φησί
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τὰς διωνομασμένας
ναίειν Κελαινὰς ἐσχάτοις Ἴδης τόποις. "
πολὺ γὰρ τῆς Ἴδης ἄπωθεν αἱ Κελαιναί, πολὺ δὲ καὶ αἱ τοῦ Καΐκου πηγαί· δείκνυνται γὰρ ἐν πεδίῳ.
But the Caicus does not flow from Ida, as Bacchylides has said, nor does Euripides speak correctly when he says of Marsyas: "to dwell in far-famed Celaenae, in the outermost regions of Ida." For Celaenae is very far from Ida, and so are the sources of the Caicus; for they are shown to be in a plain.
Τῆμνον δʼ ἔστιν ὄρος ὃ διορίζει τοῦτό τε καὶ τὸ καλούμενον Ἀπίας πεδίον, ὃ ὑπέρκειται ἐν τῇ μεσογαίᾳ τοῦ Θήβης πεδίου· ῥεῖ δʼ ἐκ τοῦ Τήμνου ποταμὸς Μύσιος ἐμβάλλων εἰς τὸν Κάικον ὑπὸ ταῖς πηγαῖς αὐτοῦ, ἀφʼ οὗ δέχονταί τινες εἰπεῖν Αἰσχύλον κατὰ τὴν εἰσβολὴν τοῦ ἐν Μυρμιδόσι προλόγου
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ἰὼ Κάικε Μύσιαί τʼ ἐπιρροαί. "
ἐγγὺς δὲ τῶν πηγῶν κώμη Γέργιθα ἔστιν, εἰς ἣν μετῴκισεν Ἄτταλος τοὺς ἐν τῇ Τρῳάδι τὸ χωρίον ἐξελών.
And there is a mountain called Temnus which separates this plain from the so-called Apian plain, which lies in the interior above the Theban plain; and there flows from Temnus the river Mysius, which empties into the Caicus below its sources, from which some understand Aeschylus to speak at the beginning of the prologue in the Myrmidons: "O Caicus and Mysian streams." And near the sources is the village of Gergitha, to which Attalus removed the inhabitants of the place in the Troad, having destroyed their town.