§14.1.38μετὰ δὲ Σμύρναν αἱ Λεῦκαι πολίχνιον, ὃ ἀπέστησεν Ἀριστόνικος μετὰ τὴν Ἀττάλου τοῦ φιλομήτορος τελευτήν, δοκῶν τοῦ γένους εἶναι τοῦ τῶν βασιλέων καὶ διανοούμενος εἰς ἑαυτὸν ποιεῖσθαι τὴν ἀρχήν·
After Smyrna comes the small town of Leukai, which Aristonicus caused to revolt after the death of Attalus Philometor, pretending to belong to the family of the kings and intending to secure the empire for himself.
ἐντεῦθεν μὲν οὖν ἐξέπεσεν ἡττηθεὶς ναυμαχίᾳ περὶ τὴν Κυμαίαν ὑπὸ Ἐφεσίων, εἰς δὲ τὴν μεσόγαιαν ἀνιὼν ἤθροισε διὰ ταχέων πλῆθος ἀπόρων τε ἀνθρώπων καὶ δούλων ἐπʼ ἐλευθερίᾳ κατακεκλημένων, οὓς Ἡλιοπολίτας ἐκάλεσε.
Now he was expelled thence, having been defeated in a sea-fight near the Cymaean territory by the Ephesians; but going up into the interior, he quickly collected a multitude of destitute people and of slaves who had been summoned under a promise of freedom, whom he called Heliopolitae.
πρῶτον μὲν οὖν παρεισέπεσεν εἰς Θυάτειρα, εἶτʼ Ἀπολλωνίδα ἔσχεν, εἶτʼ ἄλλων ἐφίετο φρουρίων· οὐ πολὺν δὲ διεγένετο χρόνον, ἀλλʼ εὐθὺς αἵ τε πόλεις ἔπεμψαν πλῆθος, καὶ Νικομήδης ὁ Βιθυνὸς ἐπεκούρησε καὶ οἱ τῶν Καππαδόκων βασιλεῖς.
First, then, he broke into Thyatira, then he occupied Apollonis, and next he aspired to other strongholds; but he did not hold out for a long time, but immediately both the cities sent a large force, and Nicomedes the Bithynian and the kings of the Cappadocians came to assist.
ἔπειτα πρέσβεις Ῥωμαίων πέντε ἧκον, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα στρατιὰ καὶ ὕπατος Πόπλιος Κράσσος, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα Μάρκος Περπέρνας, ὃς καὶ κατέλυσε τὸν πόλεμον ζωγρίᾳ λαβὼν τὸν Ἀριστόνικον καὶ ἀναπέμψας εἰς Ῥώμην.
Then five Roman ambassadors arrived, and after these an army and the consul Publius Crassus, and after these Marcus Perperna, who also brought the war to an end by taking Aristonicus alive and sending him to Rome.
ἐκεῖνος μὲν οὖν ἐν τῷ δεσμωτηρίῳ κατέστρεψε τὸν βίον, Περπέρναν δὲ νόσος διέφθειρε, Κράσσος δὲ περὶ Λεύκας ἐπιθεμένων τινῶν ἔπεσεν ἐν μάχῃ.
He, indeed, ended his life in prison, and disease destroyed Perperna, while Crassus fell in battle near Leukai when some people attacked him.
Μάνιος δʼ Ἀκύλλιος ἐπελθὼν ὕπατος μετὰ δέκα πρεσβευτῶν διέταξε τὴν ἐπαρχίαν εἰς τὸ νῦν ἔτι συμμένον τῆς πολιτείας σχῆμα.
Manius Aquillius, having arrived as consul with ten ambassadors, organized the province into the form of government which still continues to the present day.
μετὰ δὲ Λεύκας Φώκαια ἐν κόλπῳ· περὶ δὲ ταύτης εἰρήκαμεν ἐν τῷ περὶ Μασσαλίας λόγῳ.
After Leukai comes Phocaea, situated in a gulf; concerning this we have spoken in our account of Massalia.
εἶθʼ οἱ ὅροι τῶν Ἰώνων καὶ τῶν Αἰολέων· εἴρηται δὲ καὶ περὶ τούτων.
Then come the boundaries of the Ionians and Aeolians; and these also have been spoken of.
ἐν δὲ τῇ μεσογαίᾳ τῆς Ἰωνικῆς παραλίας λοιπά ἐστι τὰ περὶ τὴν ὁδὸν τὴν ἐξ Ἐφέσου μέχρι Ἀντιοχείας καὶ τοῦ Μαιάνδρου.
In the interior of the Ionian coast, what remains is the region along the road from Ephesus as far as Antioch and the Maeander.
ἔστι δὲ καὶ τὰ χωρία ταῦτα Λυδοῖς καὶ Καρσὶν ἐπίμικτα καὶ τοῖς Ἕλλησι.
These places also are mixed with Lydians and Carians and Greeks.
§14.1.39πρώτη δʼ ἐστὶν ἐξ Ἐφέσου Μαγνησία πόλις Αἰολίς, λεγομένη δὲ ἐπὶ Μαιάνδρῳ· πλησίον γὰρ αὐτοῦ ἵδρυται· πολὺ δὲ πλησιαίτερον ὁ Ληθαῖος ἐμβάλλων εἰς τὸν Μαίανδρον, τὴν δʼ ἀρχὴν ἔχων ἀπὸ Πακτύου τοῦ τῶν Ἐφεσίων ὄρους·
The first city from Ephesus is Magnesia, an Aeolian city, called Magnesia on the Maeander, for it is situated near it; but much closer is the Lethaeus, which empties into the Maeander, having its source in Pactyes, the mountain of the Ephesians.
ἕτερος δʼ ἐστὶ Ληθαῖος ὁ ἐν Γορτύνῃ καὶ ὁ περὶ Τρίκκην, ἐφʼ ᾧ ὁ Ἀσκληπιὸς γεννηθῆναι λέγεται, καὶ ἔτι ἐν τοῖς Ἑσπερίταις Λίβυσι.
There is another Lethaeus in Gortyn, and one near Trikke, near which Asclepius is said to have been born, and also among the Hesperitae Libyans.
κεῖται δʼ ἐν πεδίῳ πρὸς ὄρει καλουμένῳ Θώρακι ἡ πόλις, ἐφʼ ᾧ σταυρωθῆναί φασι Δαφίταν τὸν γραμματικὸν λοιδορήσαντα τοὺς βασιλέας διὰ διστίχου
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πορφύρεοι μώλωπες, ἀπορρινήματα γάζης
Λυσιμάχου, Λυδῶν ἄρχετε καὶ Φρυγίης. "
καὶ λόγιον δʼ ἐκπεσεῖν αὐτῷ λέγεται φυλάττεσθαι τὸν Θώρακα.
The city lies in a plain near a mountain called Thorax, on which they say Daphitas the grammarian was crucified for having insulted the kings in a distich: "Purple welts, scrapings of the treasury of Lysimachus, you rule over the Lydians and Phrygia." And a prophecy is said to have been given to him to beware of "Thorax".
§14.1.40δοκοῦσι δʼ εἶναι Μάγνητες Δελφῶν ἀπόγονοι τῶν ἐποικησάντων τὰ Δίδυμα ὄρη ἐν Θετταλίᾳ, περὶ ὧν φησιν Ἡσίοδος
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ἢ οἵη Διδύμους ἱεροὺς ναίουσα κολωνούς,
Δωτίῳ ἐν πεδίῳ πολυβότρυος ἄντʼ Ἀμύροιο,
νίψατο Βοιβιάδος λίμνης πόδα παρθένος ἀδμής. "
ἐνταῦθα δʼ ἦν καὶ τὸ τῆς Δινδυμήνης ἱερὸν μητρὸς θεῶν· ἱεράσασθαι δʼ αὐτοῦ τὴν Θεμιστοκλέους γυναῖκα, οἱ δὲ θυγατέρα παραδιδόασι·
The Magnesians are believed to be descendants of Delphians who colonized the Didyma mountains in Thessaly, of which Hesiod says: "Or like her who, dwelling by the holy Didyma hills, in the Dotian plain opposite to grape-rich Amyros, washed her foot in the Boebian lake, an unwedded virgin." And there was also there the temple of Dindymene, the mother of the gods; and they say that the wife of Themistocles was its priestess, though others deliver the tradition that it was his daughter.
νῦν δʼ οὐκ ἔστι τὸ ἱερὸν διὰ τὸ τὴν πόλιν εἰς ἄλλον μετῳκίσθαι τόπον· ἐν δὲ τῇ νῦν πόλει τὸ τῆς Λευκοφρυήνης ἱερὸν ἔστιν Ἀρτέμιδος, ὃ τῷ μὲν μεγέθει τοῦ ναοῦ καὶ τῷ πλήθει τῶν ἀναθημάτων λείπεται τοῦ ἐν Ἐφέσῳ, τῇ δʼ εὐρυθμίᾳ καὶ τῇ τέχνῃ τῇ περὶ τὴν κατασκευὴν τοῦ σηκοῦ πολὺ διαφέρει· καὶ τῷ μεγέθει ὑπεραίρει πάντας τοὺς ἐν Ἀσίᾳ πλὴν δυεῖν, τοῦ ἐν Ἐφέσῳ καὶ τοῦ ἐν Διδύμοις.
Now the temple does not exist, because the city has been relocated to another place; but in the present city there is the temple of Artemis Leucophryene, which, though in the size of the temple and the multitude of the votive offerings it falls short of that in Ephesus, is far superior in the harmony and the skill in the construction of the inner sanctuary; and in size it surpasses all those in Asia except two, that in Ephesus and that in Didyma.
καὶ τὸ παλαιὸν δὲ συνέβη τοῖς Μάγνησιν ὑπὸ Τρηρῶν ἄρδην ἀναιρεθῆναι, Κιμμερικοῦ ἔθνους, εὐτυχήσαντας πολὺν χρόνον, τὸ δʼ ἑξῆς τοὺς Ἐφεσίους κατασχεῖν τὸν τόπον.
And in ancient times it befell the Magnesians to be utterly destroyed by the Treres, a Cimmerian nation, after they had enjoyed prosperity for a long time, and next the Ephesians occupied the place.
Καλλῖνος μὲν οὖν ὡς εὐτυχούντων ἔτι τῶν Μαγνήτων μέμνηται καὶ κατορθούντων ἐν τῷ πρὸς τοὺς Ἐφεσίους πολέμῳ, Ἀρχίλοχος δὲ ἤδη φαίνεται γνωρίζων τὴν γενομένην αὐτοῖς συμφοράν
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κλαίειν τὰ Θασίων, οὗ τὰ Μαγνήτων κακά. "
ἐξ οὗ καὶ τὸν νεώτερον εἶναι τοῦ Καλλίνου τεκμαίρεσθαι πάρεστιν.
Callinus, indeed, mentions the Magnesians as still being prosperous and successful in the war against the Ephesians, but Archilochus already appears knowing of the disaster that befell them: "To weep for the misfortunes of the Thasians, not the evils of the Magnesians." From which it is also possible to infer that Archilochus is younger than Callinus.
ἄλλης δέ τινος ἐφόδου τῶν Κιμμερίων μέμνηται πρεσβυτέρας ὁ Καλλῖνος ἐπὰν φῇ
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νῦν δʼ ἐπὶ Κιμμερίων στρατὸς ἔρχεται ὀβριμοεργῶν,
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ἐν ᾗ τὴν Σάρδεων ἅλωσιν δηλοῖ.
Callinus also mentions another older incursion of the Cimmerians when he says: "And now the army of the Cimmerians, workers of violence, is coming," in which he indicates the capture of Sardis.