§13.4.6κειμένων δʼ οὕτω πως τῶν ἐπῶν παρʼ Ὁμήρῳ
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Μῄοσιν αὖ Μέσθλης τε καὶ Ἄντιφος ἡγησάσθην,
υἷε Ταλαιμένεος, τὼ Γυγαίη τέκε λίμνη,
οἳ καὶ Μῄονας ἦγον ὑπὸ Τμώλῳ γεγαῶτας,
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προσγράφουσί τινες τοῦτο τέταρτον ἔπος
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Τμώλῳ ὑπὸ νιφόεντι, Ὕδης ἐν πίονι δήμῳ.
Since the verses in Homer run somewhat as follows: "To the Meonians, moreover, Mesthles and Antiphus led, sons of Talaemenes, whom the Gygaean lake bore, who indeed led the Meonians born under Tmolus, "some add this fourth verse: "Under snowy Tmolus, in the rich land of Hyde.
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οὐδεμία δʼ εὑρίσκεται Ὕδη ἐν τοῖς Λυδοῖς.
"But no Hyde is found among the Lydians.
οἱ δὲ καὶ τὸν Τυχίον ἐνθένδε ποιοῦσιν ὅν φησιν ὁ ποιητής
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σκυτοτόμων ὄχʼ ἄριστος Ὕδῃ ἔνι.
Some also make Tychius come from there, whom the poet says "by far the best of leather-workers, in Hyde.
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προστιθέασι δὲ καὶ διότι δρυμώδης ὁ τόπος καὶ κεραυνόβολος, καὶ ὅτι ἐνταῦθα οἱ Ἄριμοι· καὶ γὰρ τῷ
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εἰν Ἀρίμοις, ὅθι φασὶ Τυφωέος ἔμμεναι εὐνάς
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ἐπεισφέρουσι
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χώρῳ ἐνὶ δρυόεντι, Ὕδης ἐν πίονι δήμῳ.
"And they also add that the place is wooded and stricken by lightning, and that the Arimi are there; for indeed to "among the Arimi, where they say is the bed of Typhoeus "they subjoin: "in a wooded place, in the rich land of Hyde.
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ἄλλοι δʼ ἐν Κιλικίᾳ, τινὲς δʼ ἐν Συρία πλάττουσι τὸν μῦθον τοῦτον, οἱ δʼ ἐν Πιθηκούσσαις, οἳ καὶ τοὺς πιθήκους φασὶ παρὰ τοῖς Τυρρηνοῖς ἀρίμους καλεῖσθαι· οἱ δὲ τὰς Σάρδεις Ὕδην ὀνομάζουσιν, οἱ δὲ τὴν ἀκρόπολιν αὐτῆς.
"But others locate this myth in Cilicia, some in Syria, others in Pithecussae, who also say that monkeys are called "arimi" among the Tyrrhenians; and some call Sardis "Hyde", others its acropolis.
πιθανωτάτους δʼ ὁ Σκήψιος ἡγεῖται τοὺς ἐν τῇ Κατακεκαυμένῃ τῆς Μυσίας τοὺς Ἀρίμους τιθέντας.
But the Scepsian considers those most plausible who place the Arimi in the Katakekaumene of Mysia.
Πίνδαρος δὲ συνοικειοῖ τοῖς ἐν τῇ Κιλικίᾳ τὰ ἐν Πιθηκούσσαις, ἅπερ ἐστὶ πρὸ τῆς Κυμαίας, καὶ τὰ ἐν Σικελίᾳ· καὶ γὰρ τῇ Αἴτνῃ φησὶν ὑποκεῖσθαι τὸν Τυφῶνα
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τόν ποτε
Κιλίκιον θρέψεν πολυώνυμον ἄντρον· νῦν γε μὰν
ταί θʼ ὑπὲρ Κύμας ἁλιερκέες ὄχθαι
Σικελία τʼ αὐτοῦ πιέζει στέρνα λαχνάεντα.
Pindar associates the events in Pithecussae, which are off the Cumaean coast, and those in Sicily, with those in Cilicia; for he says that Typhos lies under Etna: "whom once the far-famed Cilician cave nurtured; now, however, both the sea-girt cliffs above Cumae and Sicily press down upon his shaggy breast.
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καὶ πάλιν
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κείνῳ μὲν Αἴτνα δεσμὸς ὑπερφίαλος
ἀμφίκειται.
"And again: "upon him Etna lies as a monstrous prison.
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καὶ πάλιν
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ἀλλʼ οἶος ἄπλατον κεράιζε θεῶν
Τυφῶνα πεντηκοντακάρανον ἀνάγκᾳ Ζεὺς πατὴρ
ἐν Ἀρίμοις ποτέ.
"And again: "but alone, Zeus the Father once by necessity among the Arimi smote Typhos, that unapproachable fifty-headed monster of the gods.
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οἱ δὲ τοὺς Σύρους Ἀρίμους δέχονται, οὓς νῦν Ἀραμαίους λέγουσι, τοὺς δὲ Κίλικας τοὺς ἐν Τροίᾳ μεταναστάντας εἰς Συρίαν ἀνῳκισμένους ἀποτεμέσθαι παρὰ τῶν Σύρων τὴν νῦν λεγομένην Κιλικίαν.
"But some understand the Syrians as the Arimi, whom they now call Arameans, and that the Cilicians in Troy, having migrated and resettled in Syria, cut off from the Syrians the territory now called Cilicia.
Καλλισθένης δʼ ἐγγὺς τοῦ Καλυκάδνου καὶ τῆς Σαρπηδόνος ἄκρας παρʼ αὐτὸ τὸ Κωρύκιον ἄντρον εἶναι τοὺς Ἀρίμους, ἀφʼ ὧν τὰ ἐγγὺς ὄρη λέγεσθαι Ἄριμα.
Callisthenes says that the Arimi are near the Calycadnus and the promontory of Sarpedon near the Corycian cave itself, from which the neighboring mountains are called Arima.
§13.4.7περίκειται δὲ τῇ λίμνῃ τῇ Κολόῃ τὰ μνήματα τῶν βασιλέων· πρὸς δὲ ταῖς Σάρδεσιν ἔστι τὸ τοῦ Ἀλυάττου ἐπὶ κρηπῖδος ὑψηλῆς χῶμα μέγα, ἐργασθέν, ὥς φησιν Ἡρόδοτος, ὑπὸ τοῦ πλήθους τῆς πόλεως, οὗ τὸ πλεῖστον ἔργον αἱ παιδίσκαι συνετέλεσαν· λέγει δʼ ἐκεῖνος καὶ πορνεύεσθαι πάσας· τινὲς δὲ καὶ πόρνης μνῆμα λέγουσι τὸν τάφον.
Around Lake Coloe are the monuments of the kings; and near Sardis is the great mound of Alyattes on a high foundation, built, as Herodotus says, by the multitude of the city, of which work the young women accomplished the greatest part; and he says also that they all practice prostitution; and some call the tomb the monument of a prostitute.
χειροποίητον δὲ τὴν λίμνην ἔνιοι ἱστοροῦσι τὴν Κολόην πρὸς τὰς ἐκδοχὰς τῶν πλημμυρίδων, αἳ συμβαίνουσι τῶν ποταμῶν πληρουμένων.
But some report that Lake Coloe is artificial, made for the reception of floods which occur when the rivers are full.
Ὕπαιπα δὲ πόλις ἐστὶ καταβαίνουσιν ἀπὸ τοῦ Τμώλου πρὸς τὸ τοῦ Καΰστρου πεδίον.
Hypaepa is a city as one goes down from Tmolus to the plain of the Caÿster.
§13.4.8φησὶ δὲ Καλλισθένης ἁλῶναι τὰς Σάρδεις ὑπὸ Κιμμερίων πρῶτον, εἶθʼ ὑπὸ Τρηρῶν καὶ Λυκίων, ὅπερ καὶ Καλλῖνον δηλοῦν τὸν τῆς ἐλεγείας ποιητήν, ὕστατα δὲ τὴν ἐπὶ Κύρου καὶ Κροίσου γενέσθαι ἅλωσιν.
Callisthenes says that Sardis was captured first by the Cimmerians, then by the Treres and the Lycians, which Callinus also, the elegiac poet, reveals, and that the capture in the time of Cyrus and Croesus was the last.
λέγοντος δὲ τοῦ Καλλίνου τὴν ἔφοδον τῶν Κιμμερίων ἐπὶ τοὺς Ἠσιονῆας γεγονέναι καθʼ ἣν αἱ Σάρδεις ἑάλωσαν, εἰκάζουσιν οἱ περὶ τὸν Σκήψιον ἰαστὶ λέγεσθαι Ἠσιονεῖς τοὺς Ἀσιονεῖς· τάχα γὰρ ἡ Μῃονία
φησίν
Ἀσία ἐλέγετο, καθʼ ὃ καὶ Ὅμηρος εἴρηκεν
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Ἀσίῳ ἐν λειμῶνι Καϋστρίου ἀμφὶ ῥέεθρα.
Since Callinus says that the incursion of the Cimmerians was against the Esioneis, during which Sardis was captured, the followers of the Scepsian guess that the Asioneis are called Esioneis in the Ionian dialect; for perhaps Meonia, he says, was called Asia, in accordance with which Homer also said: "in the Asian meadow around the streams of the Caÿster.
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ἀναληφθεῖσα δʼ ἀξιολόγως ὕστερον διὰ τὴν ἀρετὴν τῆς χώρας ἡ πόλις καὶ οὐδεμιᾶς λειπομένη τῶν ἀστυγειτόνων, νεωστὶ ὑπὸ σεισμῶν ἀπέβαλε πολλὴν τῆς κατοικίας.
"The city was later remarkably restored because of the fertility of the country, and yielding to none of its neighbors, but recently because of earthquakes it lost much of its settlement.
ἡ δὲ τοῦ Τιβερίου πρόνοια τοῦ καθʼ ἡμᾶς ἡγεμόνος καὶ ταύτην καὶ τῶν ἄλλων συχνὰς ἀνέλαβε ταῖς εὐεργεσίαις, ὅσαι περὶ τὸν αὐτὸν καιρὸν ἐκοινώνησαν τοῦ αὐτοῦ πάθους.
However, the foresight of Tiberius, our ruler, restored both this city and many of the others through his benefactions, as many as shared in the same misfortune at the same time.
§13.4.9ἄνδρες δʼ ἀξιόλογοι γεγόνασι τοῦ αὐτοῦ γένους Διόδωροι δύο οἱ ῥήτορες, ὧν ὁ πρεσβύτερος ἐκαλεῖτο Ζωνᾶς, ἀνὴρ πολλοὺς ἀγῶνας ἠγωνισμένος ὑπὲρ τῆς Ἀσίας, κατὰ δὲ τὴν Μιθριδάτου τοῦ βασιλέως ἔφοδον αἰτίαν ἐσχηκὼς ὡς ἀφιστὰς παρʼ αὐτοῦ τὰς πόλεις ἀπελύσατο τὰς διαβολὰς ἀπολογησάμενος· τοῦ δὲ νεωτέρου φίλου ἡμῖν γενομένου καὶ ἱστορικὰ συγγράμματα ἔστι καὶ μέλη καὶ ἄλλα ποιήματα τὴν ἀρχαίαν γραφὴν ἐπιφαίνοντα ἱκανῶς.
Distinguished men have come from the same race: two rhetoricians named Diodorus, of whom the elder was called Zonas, a man who fought many contests on behalf of Asia, and who, having been accused during the incursion of King Mithridates of trying to alienate the cities from him, cleared himself of the slanders by making a defense; and of the younger, who became a friend of ours, there exist historical writings, as well as lyric and other poems, which show the ancient style sufficiently.
Ξάνθος δὲ ὁ παλαιὸς συγγραφεὺς Λυδὸς μὲν λέγεται, εἰ δὲ ἐκ Σάρδεων οὐκ ἴσμεν.
Xanthus, the ancient historian, is said to be a Lydian, but whether he was from Sardis we do not know.