§14.1.4αὗται μὲν δώδεκα Ἰωνικαὶ πόλεις, προσελήφθη δὲ χρόνοις ὕστερον καὶ Σμύρνα εἰς τὸ Ἰωνικὸν ἐναγαγόντων Ἐφεσίων· ἦσαν γὰρ αὐτοῖς σύνοικοι τὸ παλαιόν, ἡνίκα καὶ Σμύρνα ἐκαλεῖτο ἡ Ἔφεσος· καὶ Καλλῖνός που οὕτως ὠνόμακεν αὐτήν, Σμυρναίους τοὺς Ἐφεσίους καλῶν ἐν τῷ πρὸς τὸν Δία λόγῳ
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Σμυρναίους δʼ ἐλέησον
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καὶ πάλιν
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μνῆσαι δʼ εἴκοτέ τοι μηρία καλὰ βοῶν
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Σμύρνα δʼ ἦν Ἀμαζὼν ἡ κατασχοῦσα τὴν Ἔφεσον, ἀφʼ ἧς τοὔνομα καὶ τοῖς ἀνθρώποις καὶ τῇ πόλει, ὡς καὶ ἀπὸ Σισύρβης Σισυρβῖται τινὲς τῶν Ἐφεσίων ἐλέγοντο· καὶ τόπος δέ τις τῆς Ἐφέσου Σμύρνα ἐκαλεῖτο, ὡς δηλοῖ Ἱππῶναξ
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ᾤκει δʼ ὄπισθε τῆς πόλιος ἐνὶ Σμύρνῃ
μεταξὺ Τρηχείης τε καὶ Λεπρῆς ἀκτῆς. "
ἐκαλεῖτο γὰρ Λεπρὴ μὲν ἀκτὴ ὁ πρηὼν ὁ ὑπερκείμενος τῆς νῦν πόλεως, ἔχων μέρος τοῦ τείχους αὐτῆς· τὰ γοῦν ὄπισθεν τοῦ πρηῶνος κτήματα ἔτι νυνὶ λέγεται ἐν τῇ Ὀπισθολεπρίᾳ· τραχεῖα δʼ ἐκαλεῖτο ἡ περὶ τὸν Κορησσὸν Παρώρειος.
These are the twelve Ionian cities, but at a later time Smyrna also was added to the Ionian League, the Ephesians having brought them in; for they were co-inhabitants with them in ancient times, when Ephesus itself was also called Smyrna; and Callinus somewhere has named it thus, calling the Ephesians Smyrnæans in his address to Zeus: "And have pity on the Smyrnæans," and again: "And remember if ever for you the beautiful thigh-bones of bulls." Smyrna was an Amazon who took possession of Ephesus, from whom the name was given both to the people and to the city, just as some of the Ephesians were called Sisyrbitæ from Sisyrbe; and a certain place in Ephesus was also called Smyrna, as Hipponax shows: "And he lived behind the city in Smyrna, between Tracheia and Lepre Acte." For Lepre Acte was called the ridge that lies above the present city, having a part of its wall; at all events, the possessions behind the ridge are still now said to be in Opistholepria; and the mountain-slope around Coressus was called Tracheia.
ἡ δὲ πόλις ἦν τὸ παλαιὸν περὶ τὸ Ἀθήναιον τὸ νῦν ἔξω τῆς πόλεως ὂν κατὰ τὴν καλουμένην Ὑπέλαιον, ὥστε ἡ Σμύρνα ἦν κατὰ τὸ νῦν γυμνάσιον ὄπισθεν μὲν τῆς τότε πόλεως, μεταξὺ δὲ Τρηχείης τε καὶ Λεπρῆς ἀκτῆς.
The city in ancient times was around the Athenaion, which is now outside the city near the place called Hypelaeus, so that Smyrna was near the present gymnasium, behind the city of that time, and between Tracheia and Lepre Acte.
ἀπελθόντες δὲ παρὰ τῶν Ἐφεσίων οἱ Σμυρναῖοι στρατεύουσιν ἐπὶ τὸν τόπον, ἐν ᾧ νῦν ἔστιν ἡ Σμύρνα, Λελέγων κατεχόντων· ἐκβαλόντες δʼ αὐτοὺς ἔκτισαν τὴν παλαιὰν Σμύρναν διέχουσαν τῆς νῦν περὶ εἴκοσι σταδίους.
Having departed from the Ephesians, the Smyrnæans marched against the place where Smyrna now is, which was held by the Leleges; and having expelled them, they founded the ancient Smyrna, which is about twenty stadia distant from the present one.
ὕστερον δὲ ὑπὸ Αἰολέων ἐκπεσόντες κατέφυγον εἰς Κολοφῶνα, καὶ μετὰ τῶν ἐνθένδε ἐπιόντες τὴν σφετέραν ἀπέλαβον· καθάπερ καὶ Μίμνερμος ἐν τῇ Ναννοῖ φράζει μνησθεὶς τῆς Σμύρνης ὅτι περιμάχητος ἀεί
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ἡμεῖς δηὖτε Πύλον Νηλήιον ἄστυ λιπόντες
ἱμερτὴν Ἀσίην νηυσὶν ἀφικόμεθα· ἐς δʼ ἐρατὴν Κολοφῶνα βίην ὑπέροπλον ἔχοντες
ἑζόμεθʼ ἀργαλέης ὕβριος ἡγεμόνες.
But later, having been driven out by the Aeolians, they fled to Colophon, and attacking with the people from there, they recovered their own; just as Mimnermus also says in his 'Nanno', mentioning Smyrna that it was always fought for: "We, having left Pylos, the city of Neleus, arrived in lovely Asia by ships; and into lovely Colophon, having overwhelming might, we settled, leaders of grievous insolence.
κεῖθεν δʼ ἀστήεντος ἀπορνύμενοι ποταμοῖο
θεῶν βουλῇ Σμύρνην εἵλομεν Αἰολίδα. "
ταῦτα μὲν περὶ τούτων· ἐφοδευτέον δὲ πάλιν τὰ καθʼ ἕκαστα, τὴν ἀρχὴν ἀπὸ τῶν ἡγεμονικωτέρων τόπων ποιησαμένους, ἐφʼ ὧνπερ καὶ πρῶτον αἱ κτίσεις ἐγένοντο, λέγω δὲ τῶν περὶ Μίλητον καὶ Ἔφεσον· αὗται γὰρ ἄρισται πόλεις καὶ ἐνδοξόταται.
And departing from there, from the starry river, by the counsel of the gods we took Aeolian Smyrna." These things then concerning these matters; but we must go over the details again, making our beginning from the more leading places, where indeed the first foundations were made, I mean those around Miletus and Ephesus; for these are the best and most famous cities.
§14.1.5μετὰ δὲ τὸ Ποσείδιον τὸ Μιλησίων ἑξῆς ἐστι τὸ μαντεῖον τοῦ Διδυμέως Ἀπόλλωνος τὸ ἐν Βραγχίδαις ἀναβάντι ὅσον ὀκτωκαίδεκα σταδίους· ἐνεπρήσθη δʼ ὑπὸ Ξέρξου, καθάπερ καὶ τὰ ἄλλα ἱερὰ πλὴν τοῦ ἐν Ἐφέσῳ· οἱ δὲ Βραγχίδαι τοὺς θησαυροὺς τοῦ θεοῦ παραδόντες τῷ Πέρσῃ φεύγοντι συναπῆραν τοῦ μὴ τῖσαι δίκας τῆς ἱεροσυλίας καὶ τῆς προδοσίας.
After the Poseidion of the Milesians, next in order is the oracle of Didymaean Apollo at Branchidae, for one who goes up about eighteen stadia; it was burned by Xerxes, as were also the other temples except the one at Ephesus; but the Branchidae, having delivered the treasures of the god to the Persian, departed with him in his flight, so as not to pay the penalty for temple-robbing and treason.
ὕστερον δʼ οἱ Μιλήσιοι μέγιστον νεὼν τῶν πάντων κατεσκεύασαν, διέμεινε δὲ χωρὶς ὀροφῆς διὰ τὸ μέγεθος· κώμης γοῦν κατοικίαν ὁ τοῦ σηκοῦ περίβολος δέδεκται καὶ ἄλσος ἐντός τε καὶ ἐκτὸς πολυτελές· ἄλλοι δὲ σηκοὶ τὸ μαντεῖον καὶ τὰ ἱερὰ συνέχουσιν· ἐνταῦθα δὲ μυθεύεται τὰ περὶ τὸν Βράγχον καὶ τὸν ἔρωτα τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος· κεκόσμηται δʼ ἀναθήμασι τῶν ἀρχαίων τεχνῶν πολυτελέστατα· ἐντεῦθεν δʼ ἐπὶ τὴν πόλιν οὐ πολλὴ ὁδός ἐστιν οὐδὲ πλοῦς.
But later the Milesians built the largest temple of all, which remained without a roof because of its size; at all events, the enclosure of the sanctuary has received a settlement of a village, and a sumptuous grove both within and without; and other sanctuaries contain the oracle and the sacred rites; and here are mythologized the stories of Branchus and the love of Apollo; and it is decorated most sumptuously with offerings of ancient arts; and from there to the city is no long journey by land or sea.