§13.1.7ἐκ δὴ τῶν ὑπὸ τοῦ ποιητοῦ λεγομένων εἰκάζουσιν οἱ φροντίσαντες περὶ τούτων πλέον τι, πᾶσαν τὴν παραλίαν ταύτην ὑπὸ τοῖς Τρωσὶ γεγονέναι, διῃρημένην μὲν εἰς δυναστείας ἐννέα, ὑπὸ δὲ τῷ Πριάμῳ τεταγμένην κατὰ τὸν Ἰλιακὸν πόλεμον καὶ λεγομένην Τροίαν· δῆλον δὲ ἐκ τῶν κατὰ μέρος.
Those who have reflected more deeply on these matters estimate from what is said by the Poet that this entire coast was under the dominion of the Trojans, being divided into nine dynasties, but subjected to Priam during the Trojan War and called Troy; and this is clear from the details.
οἱ γὰρ περὶ τὸν Ἀχιλλέα τειχήρεις ὁρῶντες τοὺς Ἰλιέας κατʼ ἀρχάς, ἔξω ποιεῖσθαι τὸν πόλεμον ἐπεχείρησαν καὶ περιιόντες ἀφαιρεῖσθαι τὰ κύκλῳ
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δώδεκα δὴ σὺν νηυσὶ πόλεις ἀλάπαξʼ ἀνθρώπων,
πεζὸς δʼ ἕνδεκά φημι κατὰ Τροίην ἐρίβωλον. "
Τροίαν γὰρ λέγει τὴν πεπορθημένην ἤπειρον· πεπόρθηται δὲ σὺν ἄλλοις τόποις καὶ τὰ ἀντικείμενα τῇ Λέσβῳ τὰ περὶ Θήβην καὶ Λυρνησσὸν καὶ Πήδασον τὴν τῶν Λελέγων καὶ ἔτι ἡ τοῦ Εὐρυπύλου τοῦ Τηλέφου παιδός
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ἀλλʼ οἷον τὸν Τηλεφίδην κατενήρατο χαλκῷ
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ὁ Νεοπτόλεμος ἥρω Εὐρύπυλον. ταῦτα δὴ πεπορθῆσθαι λέγει καὶ αὐτὴν τὴν Λέσβον
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ὅτε Λέσβον ἐυκτιμένην ἕλεν αὐτός. "
καὶ
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πέρσε δὲ Λυρνησσὸν καὶ Πήδασον
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καὶ
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Λυρνησσὸν διαπορθήσας καὶ τείχεα Θήβης. "
ἐκ μὲν Λυρνησσοῦ ἡ Βρισηὶς ἑάλω
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τὴν ἐκ Λυρνησσοῦ ἐξείλετο. "
ἧς ἐν τῇ ἁλώσει τὸν Μύνητα πεσεῖν φησιν, ὡς ἡ Βρισηὶς θρηνοῦσα τὸν Πάτροκλον δηλοῖ
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οὐδὲ μὲν οὐδέ μʼ ἔασκες, ὅτʼ ἄνδρʼ ἐμὸν ὠκὺς Ἀχιλλεὺς
ἔκτεινεν, πέρσεν δὲ πόλιν θείοιο Μύνητος,
κλαίειν. "
ἐμφαίνει γὰρ τὴν Λυρνησσὸν λέγων
πόλιν θείοιο Μύνητος,
ὡς ἂν δυναστευομένην ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἐνταῦθα πεσεῖν αὐτὸν μαχόμενον.
For those around Achilles, seeing the Ilians enclosed within their walls at the beginning, attempted to wage the war outside, and going around, they took away the surrounding places: "With my ships indeed I have sacked twelve cities of men, and by land I say eleven throughout fertile Troy." For he calls the plundered mainland "Troy." And along with other places, the regions around Thebe, Lyrnessus, and Pedasus of the Leleges were plundered, as well as those opposite Lesbos, and also the land of Eurypylus, the son of Telephus: "But what a man was the son of Telephus, Eurypylus, whom Neoptolemus slew with the bronze." He says that these places were plundered, and also Lesbos itself: "When he himself took well-built Lesbos." And: "And he sacked Lyrnessus and Pedasus." And: "Having utterly sacked Lyrnessus and the walls of Thebe." From Lyrnessus Briseis was captured: "Whom he chose out from Lyrnessus." At whose capture he says Mynes fell, as Briseis, mourning Patroclus, reveals: "Nor indeed did you allow me, when swift Achilles slew my husband and sacked the city of divine Mynes, to weep." For by calling Lyrnessus "the city of divine Mynes," he indicates that it was ruled by him, and that he fell there fighting.
ἐκ δὲ τῆς Θήβης ἡ Χρυσηὶς ἐλήφθη
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ᾠχόμεθʼ ἐς Θήβην ἱερὴν πόλιν Ἠετίωνος. "
ἐκ δὲ τῶν ἀχθέντων ἐκεῖθεν φησὶν εἶναι τὴν Χρυσηίδα.
And Chryseis was taken from Thebe: "We went to Thebe, the sacred city of Eetion." And he says that Chryseis was among those brought from there.
ἐνθένδε δʼ ἦν καὶ ἡ Ἀνδρομάχη. "
Ἀνδρομάχη θυγάτηρ μεγαλήτορος Ἠετίωνος,
Ἠετίων, ὃς ἔναιεν ὑπὸ Πλάκῳ ὑληέσσῃ,
Θήβῃ ὑποπλακίῃ, Κιλίκεσσʼ ἄνδρεσσιν ἀνάσσων. "
δευτέρα οὖν αὕτη δυναστεία Τρωικὴ μετὰ τὴν ὑπὸ Μύνητι.
And Andromache also was from here: "Andromache, daughter of great-hearted Eetion, Eetion who dwelt under wooded Placus, in Thebe under Placus, ruling over the Cilician men." This, then, is the second Trojan dynasty, after that under Mynes.
οἰκείως δὲ τούτοις καὶ τὸ ὑπὸ τῆς Ἀνδρομάχης λεχθὲν οὕτως
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Ἕκτορ, ἐγὼ δύστηνος· ἰῇ ἄρα γεινόμεθʼ αἴσῃ
ἀμφότεροι, σὺ μὲν ἐν Τροίῃ Πριάμου ἐνὶ οἴκῳ,
αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ Θήβῃσιν,
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οὐκ οἴονται δεῖν ἐξ εὐθείας ἀκούειν, ἀλλὰ καθʼ ὑπερβατόν
ἀμφότεροι ἐν Τροίῃ, σὺ μὲν Πριάμου ἐνὶ οἴκῳ, αὐτὰρ ἐγὼ Θήβῃσι. τρίτη δʼ ἐστὶν ἡ τῶν Λελέγων, καὶ αὕτη Τρωική,
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Ἄλτεω, ὃς Λελέγεσσι φιλοπτολέμοισιν ἀνάσσει. "
οὗ τῇ θυγατρὶ συνελθὼν Πρίαμος γεννᾷ τὸν Λυκάονα καὶ Πολύδωρον.
In accordance with this, they think that the words spoken by Andromache thus: "Hector, I unhappy; we were born indeed to one fate both of us, you in Troy in the house of Priam, but I in Thebe," should not be understood in a straight line, but by hyperbaton: "both in Troy, you in the house of Priam, but I in Thebe." And the third is that of the Leleges, and this too is Trojan: "Altes, who rules over the war-loving Leleges." With whose daughter Priam, having united, begat Lycaon and Polydorus.
καὶ μὴν οἵ γε ὑπὸ τῷ Ἕκτορι ἐν τῷ καταλόγῳ ταττόμενοι λέγονται Τρῶες
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Τρωσὶ μὲν ἡγεμόνευε μέγας κορυθαίολος Ἕκτωρ. "
εἶθʼ οἱ ὑπὸ τῷ Αἰνείᾳ
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Δαρδανίων αὖτʼ ἦρχεν ἐὺς πάις Ἀγχίσαο
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καὶ οὗτοι Τρῶες· φησὶ γοῦν
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Αἰνεία, Τρώων βουληφόρε. "
εἶθʼ οἱ ὑπὸ Πανδάρῳ Λύκιοι, οὓς καὶ αὐτοὺς καλεῖ Τρῶας· "
οἳ δὲ Ζέλειαν ἔναιον ὑπαὶ πόδα νείατον Ἴδης,
ἀφνειοί, πίνοντες ὕδωρ μέλαν Αἰσήποιο,
Τρῶες· τῶν αὖτʼ ἦρχε Λυκάονος ἀγλαὸς υἱός,
Πάνδαρος. "
ἕκτη δʼ αὕτη δυναστεία.
And indeed those marshalled under Hector in the Catalogue are called Trojans: "The Trojans indeed were led by great Hector of the flashing helmet." Then those under Aeneas: "The Dardanian forces again were led by the noble son of Anchises," and these too were Trojans; at least he says: "Aeneas, counselor of the Trojans." Then the Lycians under Pandarus, whom he also calls Trojans: "And those who dwelt in Zeleia under the lowest foot of Ida, wealthy men, drinking the dark water of the Aesepus, Trojans; these again were led by the glorious son of Lycaon, Pandarus." And this is the sixth dynasty.
καὶ μὴν οἵ γε μεταξὺ τοῦ Αἰσήπου καὶ Ἀβύδου Τρῶες· ὑπὸ μὲν γὰρ τῷ Ἀσίῳ ἐστὶ τὰ περὶ Ἄβυδον
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οἳ δʼ ἄρα Περκώτην καὶ Πράκτιον ἀμφενέμοντο,
καὶ Σηστὸν καὶ Ἄβυδον ἔχον καὶ δῖαν Ἀρίσβην,
τῶν αὖθʼ Ὑρτακίδης ἦρχʼ Ἄσιος. "
ἀλλʼ ἐν Ἀβύδῳ μὲν υἱὸς τοῦ Πριάμου διέτριβεν, ἵππους νέμων, πατρῴας δηλονότι
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ἀλλʼ υἱὸν Πριάμοιο νόθον βάλε Δημοκόωντα,
ὅς οἱ Ἀβυδόθεν ἦλθε παρʼ ἵππων ὠκειάων. "
ἐν δὲ Περκώτῃ υἱὸς Ἱκετάονος ἐβουνόμει οὐκ ἀλλοτρίας οὐδʼ οὗτος βοῦς
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πρῶτον δʼ Ἱκεταονίδην ἐνένιπεν,
ἴφθιμον Μελάνιππον· ὁ δʼ ὄφρα μὲν εἰλίποδας βοῦς
βόσκʼ ἐν Περκώτῃ. "
ὥστε καὶ αὕτη ἂν εἴη Τρῳὰς καὶ ἡ ἐφεξῆς ἕως Ἀδραστείας· ἦρχον γὰρ αὐτῆς
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υἷε δύω Μέροπος Περκωσίου. "
πάντες μὲν δὴ Τρῶες οἱ ἀπὸ Ἀβύδου μέχρι Ἀδραστείας, δίχα μέντοι διῃρημένοι, οἱ μὲν ὑπὸ τῷ Ἀσίῳ οἱ δʼ ὑπὸ τοῖς Μεροπίδαις· καθάπερ καὶ ἡ τῶν Κιλίκων διττή, ἡ μὲν Θηβαϊκὴ ἡ δὲ Λυρνησσίς· ἐν αὐτῇ δʼ ἂν λεχθείη ἡ ὑπὸ Εὐρυπύλῳ ἐφεξῆς οὖσα τῇ Λυρνησσίδι.
And indeed those between the Aesepus and Abydus are Trojans; for under Asius are the places around Abydus: "And those who dwelt around Percote and Practius, and held Sestus and Abydus and divine Arisbe, these again were led by Asius, son of Hyrtacus." But in Abydus a son of Priam resided, pasturing horses, evidently those of his father: "But he struck the bastard son of Priam, Democoon, who had come to him from Abydus, from the side of his swift mares." And in Percote a son of Hicetaon was pasturing cattle, and these too were not another's: "And first he chided the son of Hicetaon, mighty Melanippus; who for a time was pasturing his shambling cattle in Percote." So this too would be Trojan territory, and the next in order as far as Adrasteia; for it was ruled by: "the two sons of Merops of Percote." All indeed from Abydus to Adrasteia were Trojans, though divided into two, some under Asius and others under the Meropidae; just as the dynasty of the Cilicians was double, one of Thebe and the other of Lyrnessus; and in it might be spoken of that under Eurypylus, which was next to the Lyrnessian.
ὅτι δὲ τούτων ἁπάντων ἦρχεν ὁ Πρίαμος οἱ τοῦ Ἀχιλλέως λόγοι πρὸς τὸν Πρίαμον σαφῶς ἐμφανίζουσι
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καί σε, γέρον, τὸ πρὶν μὲν ἀκούομεν ὄλβιον εἶναι,
ὅσσον Λέσβος ἄνω Μάκαρος πόλις ἐντὸς ἐέργει,
καὶ Φρυγίη καθύπερθε καὶ Ἑλλήσποντος ἀπείρων. "
And that Priam ruled over all of these, the words of Achilles to Priam clearly show: "And you, old man, we hear were formerly happy, in as much as Lesbos, the city of Macar, shuts in from above, and Phrygia further up, and the limitless Hellespont."