§16.2.6̔υπέρκειται δὲ τετταράκοντα σταδίοις ἡ Δάφνη, κατοικία μετρία, μέγα δὲ καὶ συνηρεφὲς ἄλσος διαρρεόμενον πηγαίοις ὕδασιν, ἐν μέσῳ δὲ ἄσυλον τέμενος καὶ νεὼς Ἀπόλλωνος καὶ Ἀρτέμιδος.
Daphne lies forty stadia above the city; it is a moderate settlement, but has a great and thick-shaded grove, which is flowed through by spring waters, and in the middle is an asylum sanctuary and a temple of Apollo and Artemis.
ἐνταῦθα δὲ πανηγυρίζειν ἔθος τοῖς Ἀντιοχεῦσι καὶ τοῖς ἀστυγείτοσι· κύκλος δὲ τοῦ ἄλσους ὀγδοήκοντα στάδιοι.
Here it is the custom for the Antiochians and their neighbors to hold festivals; the circumference of the grove is eighty stadia.
§16.2.7̔ρεῖ δὲ τῆς πόλεως πλησίον Ὀρόντης ποταμός· οὗτος δʼ ἐκ τῆς κοίλης Συρίας τὰς ἀρχὰς ἔχων εἶθʼ ὑπὸ γῆν ἐνεχθεὶς ἀναδίδωσι πάλιν τὸ ῥεῦμα, καὶ διὰ τῆς Ἀπαμέων εἰς τὴν Ἀντιόχειαν προελθὼν πλησιάσας τῇ πόλει πρὸς τὴν θάλατταν καταφέρεται τὴν κατὰ Σελεύκειαν· τὸ δʼ ὄνομα τοῦ γεφυρώσαντος αὐτὸν Ὀρόντου μετέλαβε, καλούμενος πρότερον Τυφών.
Near the city flows the river Orontes; this river has its sources in Coele-Syria, and then having been carried underground, it gives back its stream again, and having advanced through the territory of the Apameians to Antioch, and having approached the city, it is carried down to the sea near Seleucia; it took its name from Orontes, the man who bridged it, having been previously called Typhon.
μυθεύουσι δʼ ἐνταῦθά που τὰ περὶ τὴν κεραύνωσιν τοῦ Τυφῶνος καὶ τοὺς Ἀρίμους, περὶ ὧν εἴπομεν καὶ πρότερον· φασὶ δὲ τυπτόμενον τοῖς κεραυνοῖς (εἶναι δὲ δράκοντα) φεύγειν κατάδυσιν ζητοῦντα· τοῖς μὲν οὖν ὁλκοῖς ἐντεμεῖν τὴν γῆν καὶ ποιῆσαι τὸ ῥεῖθρον τοῦ ποταμοῦ, καταδύντα δʼ εἰς γῆν ἀναρρῆξαι τὴν πηγήν· ἐκ δὲ τούτου γενέσθαι τοὔνομα τῷ ποταμῷ.
Hereabouts they mythologize the story of the striking of Typhon by lightning and of the Arimi, of whom we spoke also before; and they say that, being struck by the lightnings (for he was a dragon), he fled seeking a hiding place; now with his draggings he cut into the earth and made the bed of the river, and having plunged into the earth, he broke open the fountain; and from this the river got its name.
πρὸς δύσιν μὲν οὖν θάλαττα ὑπόκειται τῇ Ἀντιοχείᾳ κατὰ Σελεύκειαν, πρὸς ᾗ καὶ τὰς ἐκβολὰς ὁ Ὀρόντης ποιεῖται, διεχούσῃ τῶν μὲν ἐκβολῶν σταδίους τετταράκοντα, τῆς δʼ Ἀντιοχείας ἑκατὸν εἴκοσιν.
To the west, then, the sea lies below Antioch near Seleucia, near which also the Orontes makes its outlets, which is distant forty stadia from the outlets, and one hundred and twenty from Antioch.
ἀνάπλους δʼ ἐκ θαλάττης ἐστὶν εἰς τὴν Ἀντιόχειαν αὐθημερόν.
The voyage upstream from the sea to Antioch is accomplished on the same day.
πρὸς ἕω δʼ ὁ Εὐφράτης ἐστὶ καὶ ἡ Βαμβύκη καὶ ἡ Βέροια καὶ ἡ Ἡράκλεια τῇ Ἀντιοχείᾳ, πολίχνια τυραννούμενά ποτε ὑπὸ Διονυσίου τοῦ Ἡρακλέωνος.
To the east of Antioch is the Euphrates, and Bambyce, and Beroea, and Heracleia, small towns once ruled by Dionysius the son of Heracleon.
διέχει δʼ ἡ Ἡράκλεια σταδίους εἴκοσι τοῦ τῆς Ἀθηνᾶς ἱεροῦ τῆς Κυρρηστίδος.
Heracleia is distant twenty stadia from the temple of Athena of Cyrrhestis.
§16.2.8εἶτα ἡ Κυρρηστικὴ μέχρι τῆς Ἀντιοχίδος· ἀπὸ δὲ τῶν ἄρκτων ἐστὶ τό τε Ἀμανὸν πλησίον καὶ ἡ Κομμαγηνή· συνάπτει δὲ τούτοις ἡ Κυρρηστικὴ μέχρι δεῦρο παρατείνουσα.
Then Cyrrhestica extends as far as Antiochis; on the north is both Amanus near by and Commagene; and Cyrrhestica adjoins these, extending as far as this point.
ἐνταῦθα δʼ ἐστὶ πόλις Γίνδαρος, ἀκρόπολις τῆς Κυρρηστικῆς καὶ λῃστήριον εὐφυές, καὶ Ἡράκλειόν τι καλούμενον πλησίον ἱερόν· περὶ οὓς τόπους ὑπὸ Ὀυεντιδίου Πάκορος διεφθάρη, ὁ πρεσβύτατος τῶν τοῦ Παρθυαίου παίδων, ἐπιστρατεύσας τῇ Συρίᾳ.
Here is Gindarus, a city which is the acropolis of Cyrrhestica and a convenient stronghold for robbers, and near by is a temple called Heracleion; in which places Pacorus, the eldest of the sons of the Parthian king, who had marched against Syria, was destroyed by Ventidius.
τῇ δὲ Γινδάρῳ συνάπτουσιν αἱ Πάγραι τῆς Ἀντιοχίδος, χωρίον ἐρυμνὸν κατὰ τὴν ὑπέρθεσιν τοῦ Ἀμανοῦ τὴν ἐκ τῶν Ἀμανίδων πυλῶν εἰς τὴν Συρίαν κείμενον.
To Gindarus adjoins Pagrae of Antiochis, a fortified place situated at the pass of Amanus which leads from the Amanian Gates into Syria.
ὑποπίπτει μὲν οὖν ταῖς Πάγραις τὸ τῶν Ἀντιοχέων πεδίον, διʼ οὗ ῥεῖ ὁ Ἄρκευθος ποταμὸς καὶ ὁ Ὀρόντης καὶ ὁ Λαβώτας.
Below Pagrae lies the plain of the Antiochians, through which flow the river Arceuthus, the Orontes, and the Labotas.
ἐν δὲ τούτῳ ἐστὶ τῷ πεδίῳ καὶ ὁ Μελεάγρου χάραξ καὶ ὁ Οἰνοπάρας ποταμός, ἐφʼ ᾧ τὸν Βάλαν Ἀλέξανδρον μάχῃ νικήσας ὁ φιλομήτωρ Πτολεμαῖος ἐτελεύτησεν ἐκ τραύματος.
In this plain is also the rampart of Meleager and the river Oenoparas, on which Ptolemy Philometor, having conquered Alexander Balas in battle, died of his wound.
ὑπέρκειται δʼ αὐτῶν λόφος Τραπεζὼν ἀπὸ τῆς ὁμοιότητος καλούμενος, ἐφʼ ᾧ Ὀυεντίδιος πρὸς Φρανικάτην τὸν Παρθυαίων στρατηγὸν ἔσχε τὸν ἀγῶνα.
Above them lies a hill called Trapezon from its resemblance, on which Ventidius had his contest against Phranicates, the general of the Parthians.
πρὸς θαλάττῃ δὲ τούτων ἐστὶν ἡ Σελεύκεια καὶ ἡ Πιερία, ὄρος συνεχὲς τῷ Ἀμανῷ, καὶ ἡ Ῥωσὸς μεταξὺ Ἰσσοῦ καὶ Σελευκείας ἱδρυμένη.
Near the sea of these places is Seleucia, and Pieria, a mountain continuous with Amanus, and Rhosus situated between Issus and Seleucia.
ἐκαλεῖτο δʼ ἡ Σελεύκεια πρότερον Ὕδατος ποταμοί· ἔρυμα δέ ἐστιν ἀξιόλογον καὶ κρεῖττον βίας ἡ πόλις.
Seleucia was formerly called Hydatos Potamoi; the city is a remarkable stronghold and superior to force.
διόπερ καὶ ἐλευθέραν αὐτὴν ἔκρινε Πομπήιος ἀποκλείσας Τιγράνην.
Wherefore Pompey also declared it free, having excluded Tigranes.
πρὸς νότον δʼ ἐστὶ τοῖς μὲν Ἀντιοχεῦσιν Ἀπάμεια ἐν μεσογαίᾳ κειμένη, τοῖς δὲ Σελευκεῦσι τὸ Κάσιον ὄρος καὶ τὸ Ἀντικάσιον· ἔτι δὲ πρότερον μετὰ τὴν Σελεύκειαν αἱ ἐκβολαὶ τοῦ Ὀρόντου· εἶτα τὸ νυμφαῖον, σπήλαιόν τι ἱερόν· εἶτα τὸ Κάσιον· ἐφεξῆς δὲ Ποσείδιον πολίχνη καὶ Ἡράκλεια.
To the south, for the Antiochians, is Apameia situated in the interior, and for the Seleucians, Mount Casius and Anticasius; and still earlier, after Seleucia, are the outlets of the Orontes; then the Nymphaeum, a sacred cave; then Casius; and next the small town Poseidion and Heracleia.