§14.5.22ὁ γὰρ Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν τοῖς περὶ νεῶν ἔτι καὶ τοιαῦτα λέγει· τοὺς γὰρ ἐκ τῆς Ἀσίας ἐπικούρους τῶν Τρώων ἅπαντας καταριθμεῖσθαί φησιν ὑπὸ τοῦ ποιητοῦ τῆς χερρονήσου κατοίκους ὄντας, ἧς ὁ στενώτατος ἰσθμός ἐστι τὸ μεταξὺ τοῦ κατὰ Σινώπην μυχοῦ καὶ Ἰσσοῦ· αἱ δʼ ἐκτὸς πλευραί φησί τριγωνοειδοῦς οὔσης, εἰσὶ μὲν ἄνισοι, παρήκουσι δὲ ἡ μὲν ἀπὸ Κιλικίας ἐπὶ Χελιδονίας, ἡ δʼ ἐνθένδε ἐπὶ τὸ στόμα τοῦ Εὐξείνου, ἡ δʼ ἐπὶ Σινώπην πάλιν ἐνθένδε.
For Apollodorus in his work 'On the Ships' further says things of this kind: for he says that all the allies of the Trojans from Asia are enumerated by the poet as being inhabitants of the peninsula, of which the narrowest isthmus is the space between the recess of the gulf at Sinope and Issus; and its outer sides, since it is triangular in shape, are unequal, he says, and extend: the one from Cilicia to the Chelidonian islands, the second from there to the mouth of the Euxine, and the third from there back to Sinope.
τὸ μὲν οὖν μόνους τοὺς ἐν τῇ χερρονήσῳ διὰ τῶν αὐτῶν ἐλέγχοιτʼ ἂν ψεῦδος ὂν διʼ ὧν ἠλέγξαμεν πρότερον μὴ μόνους τοὺς ἐντὸς Ἅλυος.
Now, the statement that only those in the peninsula were enumerated would be proved false by the very same arguments by which we previously proved that they were not only those within the Halys.
οἱ γὰρ περὶ Φαρνακίαν τόποι ἐν οἷς τοὺς Ἁλιζώνους ἔφαμεν, ὥσπερ ἔξω τοῦ Ἅλυός εἰσιν, οὕτω καὶ ἔξω τοῦ ἰσθμοῦ, εἴπερ καὶ τῶν στενῶν τῶν μεταξὺ Σινώπης καὶ Ἰσσοῦ, καὶ οὐ τούτων γε μόνων ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν κατʼ ἀλήθειαν στενῶν τῶν μεταξὺ Ἀμισοῦ τε καὶ Ἰσσοῦ· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐκεῖνος ὀρθῶς ἀφώρισται τὸν ἰσθμὸν καὶ τὰ κατʼ αὐτὸν στενά, ἐκεῖνα ἀντὶ τούτων τιθείς.
For the places around Pharnacia, in which we said the Halizones lived, just as they are outside the Halys, so they are also outside the isthmus, if indeed they are outside the narrows between Sinope and Issus, and not only these, but also the real narrows between Amisus and Issus; for he too has not correctly defined the isthmus and its narrows, putting the former instead of the latter.
πάντων δʼ εὐηθέστατον τὸ τὴν χερρόνησον τριγωνοειδῆ φήσαντα τρεῖς ἀποφήνασθαι τὰς ἔξω πλευράς· ὁ γὰρ τὰς ἔξω λέγων πλευρὰς ἔοικεν ὑπεξαιρουμένῳ τὴν κατὰ τὰ στενά, ὡς καὶ ταύτην οὖσαν πλευράν, οὐκ ἔξω δὲ οὐδʼ ἐπὶ θαλάττῃ.
But the most foolish thing of all is that, after calling the peninsula triangular, he declared it to have three 'outer' sides; for he who speaks of 'outer' sides seems to exclude the side along the narrows, assuming this also to be a side, though not an 'outer' one nor on the sea.
εἰ μὲν τοίνυν τὰ στενὰ ταῦτα οὕτως ἦν συνηγμένα ὥστε μικρὸν ἀπολείπειν τοῦ συνάπτειν ἐπʼ ἀλλήλαις τήν τε ἐπὶ Ἰσσὸν καὶ τὴν ἐπὶ Σινώπην πίπτουσαν πλευράν, συνεχώρει ἂν τριγωνοειδῆ λέγεσθαι τὴν χερρόνησον· νῦν δέ γε τρισχιλίους σταδίους ἀπολειπόντων μεταξὺ τῶν ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ λεγομένων στενῶν, ἀμαθία τὸ λέγειν τριγωνοειδὲς τὸ τοιοῦτον τετράπλευρον, οὐδὲ χωρογραφικόν.
If, therefore, these narrows were so contracted as to leave only a small distance before joining with each other the side falling towards Issus and the one falling towards Sinope, one might allow the peninsula to be called triangular; but since there is actually a distance of three thousand stadia between the narrows mentioned by him, it is ignorance to call such a quadrilateral triangular, and not worthy of a geographer.
ὁ δὲ καὶ χωρογραφίαν ἐξέδωκεν ἐν κωμικῷ μέτρῳ γῆς περίοδον ἐπιγράψας.
And yet he even published a geography in comic metre, entitling it 'Circuit of the Earth'.
μένει δʼ ἡ αὐτὴ ἀμαθία κἂν εἰς τοὐλάχιστον καταγάγῃ διάστημά τις τὸν ἰσθμόν, ὅσον εἰρήκασιν οἱ πλεῖστον ψευσάμενοι τὸ ἥμισυ τοῦ παντός, ὅσον εἴρηκε καὶ Ἀρτεμίδωρος, χιλίους καὶ πεντακοσίους σταδίους· οὐδὲ γὰρ τοῦτο συναγωγήν πω τριγωνοειδοῦς ποιεῖ σχήματος.
And the same ignorance remains even if one reduces the isthmus to the shortest distance—namely, that which those who have lied the most call half of the whole, and which Artemidorus also has stated to be fifteen hundred stadia; for not even this yet makes a contraction into a triangular shape.
ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ τὰς πλευρὰς ὀρθῶς διῄρηται τὰς ἔξω τὴν ἀπὸ Ἰσσοῦ μέχρι Χελιδονίων εἰπών· λοιπὴ γάρ ἐστιν ὅλη ἐπʼ εὐθείας ἡ Λυκιακὴ παραλία ταύτῃ, καὶ ἡ τῶν Ῥοδίων περαία μέχρι Φύσκου· ἐντεῦθεν δὲ καμπὴν λαβοῦσα ἡ ἤπειρος ἄρχεται τὴν δευτέραν καὶ δυσμικὴν ποιεῖν πλευρὰν ἄχρι Προποντίδος καὶ Βυζαντίου.
Moreover, he has not correctly divided the outer sides in saying the one from Issus as far as the Chelidonian islands; for there remains all the Lycian coast in a straight line with this, and the Rhodian Peraea as far as Physcus; and from there the mainland, taking a turn, begins to form the second and western side as far as the Propontis and Byzantium.
§14.5.23φήσαντος δὲ τοῦ Ἐφόρου διότι τὴν χερρόνησον κατοικεῖ ταύτην ἑκκαίδεκα γένη, τρία μὲν Ἑλληνικὰ τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ βάρβαρα χωρὶς τῶν μιγάδων, ἐπὶ θαλάττῃ μὲν Κίλικες καὶ Πάμφυλοι καὶ Λύκιοι καὶ Βιθυνοὶ καὶ Παφλαγόνες καὶ Μαριανδυνοὶ καὶ Τρῶες καὶ Κᾶρες, Πισίδαι δὲ καὶ Μυσοὶ καὶ Χάλυβες καὶ Φρύγες καὶ Μιλύαι ἐν τῇ μεσογαίᾳ, διαιτῶν ταῦτα ὁ Ἀπολλόδωρος ἑπτακαιδέκατόν φησιν εἶναι τὸ τῶν Γαλατῶν, ὃ νεώτερόν ἐστι τοῦ Ἐφόρου, τῶν δʼ εἰρημένων τὰ μὲν Ἑλληνικὰ μήπω κατὰ τὰ Τρωικὰ κατῳκίσθαι, τὰ δὲ βάρβαρα πολλὴν ἔχειν σύγχυσιν διὰ τὸν χρόνον· καταλέγεσθαι δʼ ὑπὸ τοῦ ποιητοῦ τό τε τῶν Τρώων καὶ τῶν νῦν ὀνομαζομένων Παφλαγόνων καὶ Μυσῶν καὶ Φρυγῶν καὶ Καρῶν καὶ Λυκίων, Μῄονάς ἀντὶ Λυδῶν καὶ ἄλλους ἀγνῶτας, οἷον Ἁλιζῶνας καὶ Καύκωνας· ἐκτὸς δὲ τοῦ καταλόγου Κητείους τε καὶ Σολύμους καὶ Κίλικας τοὺς ἐκ Θήβης πεδίου καὶ Λέλεγας· Παμφύλους δὲ καὶ Βιθυνοὺς καὶ Μαριανδυνοὺς καὶ Πισίδας καὶ Χάλυβας καὶ Μιλύας καὶ Καππάδοκας μηδʼ ὠνομάσθαι, τοὺς μὲν διὰ τὸ μηδέπω τοὺς τόπους κατῳκηκέναι τούτους, τοὺς δὲ διὰ τὸ ἑτέροις γένεσι περιέχεσθαι, ὡς Ἰδριεῖς μὲν καὶ Τερμίλαι Καρσί, Δολίονες δὲ καὶ Βέβρυκες Φρυξί.
And when Ephorus says that sixteen tribes inhabit this peninsula, three of which are Greek and the rest barbarian, apart from the mixed peoples, namely, on the sea, the Cilicians, Pamphylians, Lycians, Bithynians, Paphlagonians, Mariandynians, Trojans, and Carians, and in the interior, the Pisidians, Mysians, Chalybians, Phrygians, and Milyans, Apollodorus, in examining these statements, says that there is a seventeenth, that of the Galatians, which is later than the time of Ephorus, and that of those mentioned, the Greek tribes had not yet settled there at the time of the Trojan War, and the barbarian tribes had experienced great confusion on account of the lapse of time; and that there are enumerated by the poet the Trojans, and those now called Paphlagonians, Mysians, Phrygians, Carians, and Lycians, and the Meonians instead of the Lydians, and other unknown peoples, as, for instance, the Halizones and Caucones; and outside the Catalogue, the Ceteians, Solymi, the Cilicians from the plain of Thebe, and the Leleges; while the Pamphylians, Bithynians, Mariandynians, Pisidians, Chalybians, Milyans, and Cappadocians are not even named, some because they had not yet settled in these places, and others because they were comprehended under other tribes, as the Idrieis and Termilae under the Carians, and the Doliones and Bebryces under the Phrygians.