§13.4.3ἄνδρες δʼ ἐγένοντο ἐλλόγιμοι καθʼ ἡμᾶς Περγαμηνοὶ Μιθριδάτης τε Μηνοδότου υἱὸς καὶ Ἀδοβογιωνίδος τοῦ τετραρχικοῦ τῶν Γαλατῶν γένους, ἣν καὶ παλλακεῦσαι τῷ βασιλεῖ Μιθριδάτῃ φασίν·
Among the Pergamenians who became illustrious in our time were Mithridates, the son of Menodotus and of Adobogionis, who belonged to the family of the tetrarchs of the Galatians; she is said also to have been the mistress of King Mithridates.
ὅθεν καὶ τοὔνομα τῷ παιδὶ θέσθαι τοὺς ἐπιτηδείους προσποιησαμένους ἐκ τοῦ βασιλέως αὐτὸν γεγονέναι.
Whence his friends, pretending that the child was born of the king, gave him this name.
οὗτος γοῦν Καίσαρι τῷ θεῷ γενόμενος φίλος εἰς τοσόνδε προῆλθε τιμῆς ὥστε καὶ τετράρχης ἀπεδείχθη τοῦ μητρῴου γένους καὶ βασιλεὺς ἄλλων τε καὶ τοῦ Βοσπόρου· κατελύθη δʼ ὑπὸ Ἀσάνδρου τοῦ καὶ Φαρνάκην ἀνελόντος τὸν βασιλέα καὶ κατασχόντος τὸν Βόσπορον.
At any rate, this man became a friend to the deified Caesar and advanced to such a degree of honor that he was appointed tetrarch of his mother's family and king of other places and also of the Bosporus; but he was overthrown by Asander, who had also put King Pharnaces to death and seized the Bosporus.
οὗτός τε δὴ ὀνόματος ἠξίωται μεγάλου, καὶ Ἀπολλόδωρος ὁ ῥήτωρ ὁ τὰς τέχνας συγγράψας καὶ τὴν Ἀπολλοδώρειον αἵρεσιν παραγαγών, ἥτις ποτʼ ἐστί· πολλὰ γὰρ ἐπεκράτει, μείζονα δὲ ἢ καθʼ ἡμᾶς ἔχοντα τὴν κρίσιν, ὧν ἔστι καὶ ἡ Ἀπολλοδώρειος αἵρεσις καὶ ἡ Θεοδώρειος.
Thus this man indeed has been deemed worthy of a great name, as has also Apollodorus the rhetorician, who wrote the "Art of Rhetoric" and introduced the Apollodorean school, whatever that may be; for many doctrines were prevalent, but they require a judgment beyond our power, among which are both the Apollodorean and the Theodorean schools.
μάλιστα δὲ ἐξῆρε τὸν Ἀπολλόδωρον ἡ τοῦ Καίσαρος φιλία τοῦ Σεβαστοῦ, διδάσκαλον τῶν λόγων γενόμενον· μαθητὴν δʼ ἔσχεν ἀξιόλογον Διονύσιον τὸν ἐπικληθέντα Ἀττικόν, πολίτην αὐτοῦ· καὶ γὰρ σοφιστὴς ἦν ἱκανὸς καὶ συγγραφεὺς καὶ λογογράφος.
But what exalted Apollodorus most was the friendship of Caesar Augustus, whose teacher of eloquence he became; and he had a noteworthy disciple, Dionysius surnamed Atticus, his fellow-citizen; for indeed he was an able sophist, historian, and speechwriter.
§13.4.4προϊόντι δʼ ἀπὸ τοῦ πεδίου καὶ τῆς πόλεως ἐπὶ μὲν τὰ πρὸς ἕω μέρη πόλις ἐστὶν Ἀπολλωνία, μετεώροις ἐπικειμένη τόποις· ἐπὶ δὲ τὸν νότον ὀρεινὴ ῥάχις ἐστίν, ἣν ὑπερβᾶσι καὶ βαδίζουσιν ἐπὶ Σάρδεων πόλις ἐστὶν ἐν ἀριστερᾷ Θυάτειρα, κατοικία Μακεδόνων, ἣν Μυσῶν ἐσχάτην τινὲς φασίν.
For one proceeding from the plain and the city toward the eastern parts, there is the city of Apollonia, situated on high places; and toward the south is a mountainous ridge, which for those who have crossed it and are walking toward Sardis has on the left the city of Thyateira, a settlement of Macedonians, which some say is the last city of the Mysians.
ἐν δεξιᾷ δʼ Ἀπολλωνίς, διέχουσα Περγάμου τριακοσίους σταδίους, τοὺς δὲ ἴσους καὶ τῶν Σάρδεων· ἐπώνυμος δʼ ἐστὶ τῆς Κυζικηνῆς Ἀπολλωνίδος·
And on the right is Apollonis, distant three hundred stades from Pergamon, and the equal number from Sardis; it is named after Apollonis of Cyzicus.
εἶτʼ ἐκδέχεται τὸ Ἕρμου πεδίον καὶ Σάρδεις·
Then succeed the plain of the Hermus and Sardis.
τὰ δὲ προσάρκτια τῷ Περγάμῳ τὰ πλεῖστα ὑπὸ Μυσῶν ἔχεται τὰ ἐν δεξιᾷ τῶν Ἀβαειτῶν λεγομένων, οἷς συνάπτει ἡ Ἐπίκτητος μέχρι Βιθυνίας.
The northern parts of Pergamon are for the most part held by the Mysians who are on the right of those called Abaeitae, to whom Epictetus adjoins as far as Bithynia.
§13.4.5αἱ δὲ Σάρδεις πόλις ἐστὶ μεγάλη, νεωτέρα μὲν τῶν Τρωικῶν ἀρχαία δʼ ὅμως, ἄκραν ἔχουσα εὐερκῆ· βασίλειον δʼ ὑπῆρξε τῶν Λυδῶν, οὓς ὁ ποιητὴς καλεῖ Μῄονας οἱ δʼ ὕστερον Μαίονας, οἱ μὲν τοὺς αὐτοὺς τοῖς Λυδοῖς οἱ δʼ ἑτέρους ἀποφαίνοντες· τοὺς δʼ αὐτοὺς ἄμεινόν ἐστι λέγειν.
Sardis is a great city, younger indeed than the Trojan times, yet ancient nevertheless, having a well-fortified citadel; and it was the royal palace of the Lydians, whom the poet calls Meiones, and later writers Maiones, some declaring them to be the same as the Lydians and others different; but it is better to say they are the same.
ὑπέρκειται δὲ τῶν Σάρδεων ὁ Τμῶλος, εὔδαιμον ὄρος, ἐν τῇ ἀκρωρείᾳ σκοπὴν ἔχον, ἐξέδραν λευκοῦ λίθου, Περσῶν ἔργον, ἀφʼ οὗ κατοπτεύεται τὰ κύκλῳ πεδία καὶ μάλιστα τὸ Καϋστριανόν· περιοικοῦσι δὲ Λυδοὶ καὶ Μυσοὶ καὶ Μακεδόνες.
Above Sardis lies Tmolus, a fertile mountain, having a watchtower on its summit, an exedra of white stone, the work of the Persians, from which the surrounding plains are overlooked, especially the Caÿstrian plain; and around it dwell Lydians, Mysians, and Macedonians.
ῥεῖ δʼ ὁ Πακτωλὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ Τμώλου, καταφέρων τὸ παλαιὸν ψῆγμα χρυσοῦ πολύ, ἀφʼ οὗ τὸν Κροίσου λεγόμενον πλοῦτον καὶ τῶν προγόνων αὐτοῦ διονομασθῆναί φασι· νῦν δʼ ἐκλέλοιπε τὸ ψῆγμα, ὡς εἴρηται.
The Pactolus flows from Tmolus, bringing down in ancient times much gold-dust, from which they say the so-called wealth of Croesus and his ancestors became famous; but now the gold-dust has failed, as has been said.
καταφέρεται δʼ ὁ Πακτωλὸς εἰς τὸν Ἕρμον, εἰς ὃν καὶ ὁ Ὕλλος ἐμβάλλει, Φρύγιος νυνὶ καλούμενος· συμπεσόντες δʼ οἱ τρεῖς καὶ ἄλλοι ἀσημότεροι σὺν αὐτοῖς εἰς τὴν κατὰ Φώκαιαν ἐκδιδόασι θάλατταν, ὡς Ἡρόδοτός φησιν.
The Pactolus flows down into the Hermus, into which also the Hyllus empties, now called Phrygius; and these three, falling together, along with other more obscure streams, empty into the sea near Phocaea, as Herodotus says.
ἄρχεται δʼ ἐκ Μυσίας ὁ Ἕρμος, ἐξ ὄρους ἱεροῦ τῆς Δινδυμήνης, καὶ διὰ τῆς Κατακεκαυμένης εἰς τὴν Σαρδιανὴν φέρεται καὶ τὰ συνεχῆ πεδία μέχρι τῆς θαλάττης.
The Hermus begins in Mysia, from the sacred mountain of Dindymene, and flows through Katakekaumene into the Sardian territory and the adjacent plains as far as the sea.
ὑπόκειται δὲ τῇ πόλει τό τε Σαρδιανὸν πεδίον καὶ τὸ τοῦ Κύρου καὶ τὸ τοῦ Ἕρμου καὶ τὸ Καϋστριανόν, συνεχῆ τε ὄντα καὶ πάντων ἄριστα πεδίων.
Below the city lies the Sardian plain, and that of Cyrus, and that of the Hermus, and the Caÿstrian, which are contiguous and the best of all plains.
ἐν δὲ σταδίοις τετταράκοντα ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως ἔστιν ἡ Γυγαία μὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ ποιητοῦ λεγομένη, Κολόη δʼ ὕστερον μετονομασθεῖσα, ὅπου τὸ ἱερὸν τῆς Κολοηνῆς Ἀρτέμιδος μεγάλην ἁγιστείαν ἔχον.
And forty stades from the city is the lake called Gygaea by the poet, but later renamed Coloe, where is the temple of Coloean Artemis, which possesses great sanctity.
φασὶ δʼ ἐνταῦθα χορεύειν τοὺς καλάθους κατὰ τὰς ἑορτάς, οὐκ οἶδʼ ὅπως ποτὲ παραδοξολογοῦντες μᾶλλον ἢ ἀληθεύοντες.
And they say that the baskets dance there during the festivals, though I know not how they can tell such marvels rather than the truth.