§14.5.3μετὰ δὲ τὸ Κορακήσιον Ἀρσινόη πόλις, εἶθʼ Ἁμαξία ἐπὶ βουνοῦ κατοικία τις ὕφορμον ἔχουσα, ὅπου κατάγεται ἡ ναυπηγήσιμος ὕλη.
After Coracesium comes the city of Arsinoe, then Hamaxia, a settlement on a hill with a harbor where shipbuilding timber is brought down.
κέδρος δʼ ἐστὶν ἡ πλείστη, καὶ δοκεῖ ταῦτα τὰ μέρη πλεονεκτεῖν τῇ τοιαύτῃ ξυλείᾳ· καὶ διὰ τοῦτʼ Ἀντώνιος Κλεοπάτρᾳ τὰ χωρία ταῦτα προσένειμεν ἐπιτήδεια ὄντα πρὸς τὰς τῶν στόλων κατασκευάς.
Most of this timber is cedar, and these parts seem to abound in this kind of wood; and for this reason Antony assigned these places to Cleopatra, as they were suitable for the construction of fleets.
εἶτα Λαέρτης φρούριον ἐπὶ λόφου μαστοειδοῦς ὕφορμον ἔχον· εἶτα Σελινοῦς πόλις· εἶτα Κράγος πέτρα περίκρημνος πρὸς θαλάττῃ· εἶτα Χαραδροῦς ἔρυμα καὶ αὐτὸ ὕφορμον ἔχον (ὑπέρκειται δʼ ὄρος Ἄνδρικλος) καὶ παράπλους τραχὺς Πλατανιστῆς καλούμενος·
Then Laertes, a fortress on a breast-shaped hill with a harbor; then the city of Selinus; then Cragus, a precipitous rock on the sea; then Charadrus, a fortress which itself has a harbor (above which lies Mt.
εἶτʼ Ἀνεμούριον ἄκρα καθʼ ἣν ἡ ἤπειρος ἐγγυτάτω τῆς Κυπρίας ἐστὶν ἐπὶ Κρομμύου ἄκραν ἐν διάρματι σταδίων τριακοσίων πεντήκοντα.
Andriclus), and a rugged coastal passage called Platanistes; then Cape Anemurium, at which the mainland is closest to Cyprus, being a distance of three hundred and fifty stadia in crossing to Cape Crommyum.
εἰς μὲν οὖν τὸ Ἀνεμούριον ἀπὸ τῶν ὅρων τῆς Παμφυλίας ὁ Κιλίκιος παράπλους σταδίων ἐστὶν ὀκτακοσίων εἴκοσι, λοιπὸς δʼ ἐστὶ μέχρι Σόλων ὅσον πεντακοσίων παράπλους σταδίων.
Now, the coastal voyage of Cilicia from the boundaries of Pamphylia to Anemurium is eight hundred and twenty stadia, and the remaining voyage as far as Soli is about five hundred stadia.
τούτου δʼ ἐστὶ Νάγιδος πρώτη μετὰ τὸ Ἀνεμούριον πόλις· εἶτʼ Ἀρσινόη πρόσορμον ἔχουσα· εἶτα τόπος Μελανία καὶ Κελένδερις πόλις λιμένα ἔχουσα.
On this remaining passage, the first city after Anemurium is Nagidus; then Arsinoe, which has an anchorage; then a place called Melania, and Celenderis, a city with a harbor.
τινὲς δὲ ταύτην ἀρχὴν τίθενται τῆς Κιλικίας, οὐ τὸ Κορακήσιον, ὧν ἐστι καὶ ὁ Ἀρτεμίδωρος· καί φησιν ἀπὸ μὲν τοῦ Πηλουσιακοῦ στόματος εἶναι τρισχιλίους ἑξακοσίους σταδίους εἰς Ὀρθωσίαν, ἐπὶ δὲ τὸν Ὀρόντην ποταμὸν χίλια ἑκατὸν τριάκοντα, ἐπὶ δὲ τὰς πύλας ἑξῆς πεντακόσια εἰκοσιπέντε, ἐπὶ δὲ τοὺς ὅρους τῶν Κιλίκων χίλια ἐνακόσια εἴκοσιν.
Some, among whom is Artemidorus, make this latter place, and not Coracesium, the beginning of Cilicia; and he says that from the Pelusiac mouth to Orthosia is three thousand six hundred stadia, to the Orontes river one thousand one hundred and thirty, next to the Gates five hundred and twenty-five, and to the boundaries of the Cilicians one thousand nine hundred and twenty.
§14.5.4εἶθʼ Ὅλμοι, ὅπου πρότερον ᾤκουν οἱ νῦν Σελευκεῖς, κτισθείσης δʼ ἐπὶ τῷ Καλυκάδνῳ τῆς Σελευκείας ἐκεῖ μετῳκίσθησαν.
Then Holmi, where the people who now live in Seleucia formerly lived; but when Seleucia was founded on the Calycadnus, they migrated there.
εὐθὺς γάρ ἐστιν ἡ τοῦ Καλυκάδνου ἐκβολὴ κάμψαντι ᾐόνα ποιοῦσαν ἄκραν ἣ καλεῖται Σαρπηδών.
For immediately, as one rounds the sandy cape that forms Sarpedon, is the mouth of the Calycadnus.
πλησίον δʼ ἐστὶ τοῦ Καλυκάδνου καὶ τὸ Ζεφύριον καὶ αὕτη ἄκρα·
Near the Calycadnus is also Zephyrium, and this too is a cape.
ἔχει δὲ ὁ ποταμὸς ἀνάπλουν εἰς τὴν Σελεύκειαν πόλιν εὖ συνοικουμένην καὶ πολὺ ἀφεστῶσαν τοῦ Κιλικίου καὶ Παμφυλίου τρόπου.
The river has an inland passage up to the city of Seleucia, which is well-peopled and far removed from the Cilician and Pamphylian way of life.
ἐνταῦθα ἐγένοντο καθʼ ἡμᾶς ἄνδρες ἀξιόλογοι τῶν ἐκ τοῦ περιπάτου φιλοσόφων Ἀθήναιός τε καὶ Ξέναρχος, ὧν ὁ μὲν Ἀθήναιος καὶ ἐπολιτεύσατο καὶ ἐδημαγώγησε χρόνον τινὰ ἐν τῇ πατρίδι, εἶτʼ ἐμπεσὼν εἰς τὴν Μουρήνα φιλίαν ἐκείνῳ συνεάλω φεύγων φωραθείσης τῆς κατὰ Καίσαρος τοῦ Σεβαστοῦ συσταθείσης ἐπιβουλῆς· ἀναίτιος δὲ φανεὶς ἀφείθη ὑπὸ Καίσαρος.
Here were born in our time notable men of the Peripatetic school of philosophers, Athenaeus and Xenarchus, of whom Athenaeus both engaged in politics and led the people for some time in his native city, but later, falling into a friendship with Murena, was captured with him while fleeing when the conspiracy formed against Caesar Augustus was discovered; but having been shown to be guiltless, he was released by Caesar.
ὡς δʼ ἐπανιόντα εἰς Ῥώμην ἠσπάζοντο καὶ ἐπυνθάνοντο οἱ πρῶτοι ἐντυγχάνοντες, τὸ Εὐριπίδου ἔφη
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ἥκω νεκρῶν κευθμῶνα καὶ σκότου πύλας λιπών. "
ὀλίγον δʼ ἐπιβιοὺς χρόνον ἐν συμπτώσει τῆς οἰκίας ἐν ᾗ ᾤκει διεφθάρη νύκτωρ γενομένῃ, Ξέναρχος δέ, οὗ ἠκροασάμεθα ἡμεῖς, ἐν οἴκῳ μὲν οὐ πολὺ διέτριψεν, ἐν Ἀλεξανδρείᾳ δὲ καὶ Ἀθήνησι καὶ τὸ τελευταῖον ἐν Ῥώμῃ, τὸν παιδευτικὸν βίον ἑλόμενος· χρησάμενος δὲ καὶ τῇ Ἀρείου φιλίᾳ καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα τῇ Καίσαρος τοῦ Σεβαστοῦ διετέλεσε μέχρι γήρως ἐν τιμῇ ἀγόμενος· μικρὸν δὲ πρὸ τῆς τελευτῆς πηρωθεὶς τὴν ὄψιν κατέστρεψε νόσῳ τὸν βίον.
When, upon his return to Rome, the first people who met him greeted him and asked for news, he quoted the verse of Euripides: "ἥκω νεκρῶν κευθμῶνα καὶ σκότου πύλας λιπών." (I am come, leaving the vault of the dead and the gates of darkness.) After surviving for only a short time, he perished in the night when the house in which he lived collapsed. On the other hand, Xenarchus, whose lectures we ourselves attended, did not spend much time at home, but lived in Alexandria, Athens, and finally Rome, choosing the life of a teacher; having enjoyed the friendship of Areius and after that of Caesar Augustus, he continued to be held in honor until his old age; and shortly before his end, having lost his sight, he ended his life by disease.
§14.5.5μετὰ δὲ τὸν Καλύκαδνον ἡ Ποικίλη λεγομένη πέτρα κλίμακα ἔχουσα λατομητὴν ἐπὶ Σελεύκειαν ἄγουσαν.
After the Calycadnus comes the rock called Poecile, which has a flight of steps cut in the stone leading to Seleucia.
εἶτʼ Ἀνεμούριον ἄκρα ὁμώνυμος τῇ προτέρᾳ, καὶ Κράμβουσα νῆσος καὶ Κώρυκος ἄκρα, ὑπὲρ ἧς ἐν εἴκοσι σταδίοις ἐστὶ τὸ Κωρύκιον ἄντρον, ἐν ᾧ ἡ ἀρίστη κρόκος φύεται.
Then Cape Anemurium, of the same name as the former one, and Crambusa island, and Cape Corycus, twenty stadia above which is the Corycian cave, in which the best saffron grows.
ἔστι δὲ κοιλὰς μεγάλη κυκλοτερὴς ἔχουσα περικειμένην ὀφρὺν πετρώδη πανταχόθεν ἱκανῶς ὑψηλήν· καταβάντι δʼ εἰς αὐτὴν ἀνώμαλόν ἐστιν ἔδαφος καὶ τὸ πολὺ πετρῶδες, μεστὸν δὲ τῆς θαμνώδους ὕλης ἀειθαλοῦς τε καὶ ἡμέρου· παρέσπαρται δὲ καὶ τὰ ἐδάφη τὰ φέροντα τὴν κρόκον.
It is a large circular valley surrounded by a rocky lip that is quite high on all sides; to one who goes down into it, the floor is uneven and for the most part rocky, but full of evergreen and cultivated shrubs; and the soils that bear the saffron are scattered here and there.
ἔστι δὲ καὶ ἄντρον αὐτόθι ἔχον πηγὴν μεγάλην ποταμὸν ἐξιεῖσαν καθαροῦ τε καὶ διαφανοῦς ὕδατος, εὐθὺς καταπίπτοντα ὑπὸ γῆς· ἐνεχθεὶς δʼ ἀφανὴς ἔξεισιν εἰς τὴν θάλατταν· καλοῦσι δὲ πικρὸν ὕδωρ.
There is also a cave there which has a great spring pouring forth a river of pure and transparent water, which immediately falls underground; having been carried unseen, it issues into the sea; and they call it "bitter water."