§7.5.7μετὰ δʼ οὖν τὴν τῶν Ἀρδιαίων καὶ Πληραίων παραλίαν ὁ Ῥιζονικὸς κόλπος ἐστὶ καὶ Ῥίζων πόλις καὶ ἄλλα πολίχνια, καὶ Δρίλων ποταμὸς ἀνάπλουν ἔχων πρὸς ἕω μέχρι τῆς Δαρδανικῆς, ἣ συνάπτει τοῖς Μακεδονικοῖς ἔθνεσι καὶ τοῖς Παιονικοῖς πρὸς μεσημβρίαν, καθάπερ καὶ οἱ Αὐταριᾶται καὶ Δασαρήτιοι, ἄλλοι κατʼ ἄλλα μέρη συνεχεῖς ἀλλήλοις ὄντες καὶ τοῖς Αὐταριάταις.
Now, after the coast of the Ardiaei and Pleraei, there is the Rhizonic Gulf, and the city of Rhizon, and other small towns, and the river Drilon, which has a navigation eastward as far as the Dardanian territory; this territory joins the Macedonian and Paeonian tribes to the south, just as do also the Autariatae and the Dasaretii, who in different parts are contiguous to each other and to the Autariatae.
τῶν δὲ Δαρδανιατῶν εἰσι καὶ οἱ Γαλάβριοι, παρʼ οἷς πόλις ἀρχαία, καὶ οἱ Θουνάται, Μαίδοις ἔθνει Θρᾳκίῳ πρὸς ἕω συνάπτουσιν.
Among the Dardanians are also the Galabrii, who have an ancient city, and the Thunatae, who join the Maedi, a Thracian tribe, to the east.
ἄγριοι δʼ ὄντες οἱ Δαρδάνιοι τελέως, ὥσθʼ ὑπὸ ταῖς κοπρίαις ὀρύξαντες σπήλαια ἐνταῦθα διαίτας ποιεῖσθαι, μουσικῆς δʼ ὅμως ἐπεμελήθησαν ἀεὶ χρώμενοι καὶ αὐλοῖς καὶ τοῖς ἐντατοῖς ὀργάνοις.
Although the Dardanians are completely wild, so much so that they dig caves under dunghills and make their dwellings there, yet they have always cared for music, constantly using both flutes and stringed instruments.
οὗτοι μὲν οὖν ἐν τῇ μεσογαίᾳ· μνησθησόμεθα δʼ αὐτῶν καὶ ὕστερον.
These people, then, live in the interior; but we shall mention them also later.
§7.5.8μετὰ δὲ τὸν Ῥιζονικὸν κόλπον Λίσσος ἐστὶ πόλις καὶ Ἀκρόλισσος καὶ Ἐπίδαμνος Κερκυραίων κτίσμα, ἡ νῦν Δυρράχιον ὁμωνύμως τῇ χερρονήσῳ λεγομένη ἐφʼ ἧς ἵδρυται.
After the Rhizonic Gulf is the city of Lissus, and Acrolissus, and Epidamnus, a foundation of the Corcyraeans, which is now called Dyrrachium, homonymously with the peninsula on which it is situated.
εἶθʼ ὁ Ἄψος ποταμὸς καὶ ὁ Ἄωος, ἐφʼ ᾧ Ἀπολλωνία πόλις εὐνομωτάτη, κτίσμα Κορινθίων καὶ Κερκυραίων, τοῦ ποταμοῦ μὲν ἀπέχουσα σταδίους δέκα τῆς θαλάττης δὲ ἑξήκοντα.
Then the river Apsus, and the Aoüs, upon which is the city of Apollonia, a most well-governed city, a foundation of the Corinthians and Corcyraeans, distant ten stadia from the river and sixty from the sea.
τὸν δʼ Ἄωον Αἴαντα καλεῖ Ἑκαταῖος καί φησιν ἀπὸ τοῦ αὐτοῦ τόπου τοῦ περὶ Λάκμον, μᾶλλον δὲ τοῦ αὐτοῦ μυχοῦ, τόν τε Ἴναχον ῥεῖν εἰς Ἄργος πρὸς νότον καὶ τὸν Αἴαντα πρὸς ἑσπέραν καὶ πρὸς τὸν Ἀδρίαν.
Hecataeus calls the Aoüs the Aeas, and says that from the same place around Lacmus, or rather from the same recess, both the Inachus flows southward into Argos and the Aeas westward and toward the Adriatic.
ἐν δὲ τῇ χώρᾳ τῶν Ἀπολλωνιατῶν καλεῖταί τι νυμφαῖον· πέτρα δʼ ἐστὶ πῦρ ἀναδιδοῦσα, ὑπʼ αὐτῇ δὲ κρῆναι ῥέουσι χλιαροῦ καὶ ἀσφάλτου, καιομένης, ὡς εἰκός, τῆς βώλου τῆς ἀσφαλτίτιδος·
In the territory of the Apolloniates there is a place called Nymphaeum; it is a rock that pours forth fire, and below it flow springs of warm water and asphalt, probably because the asphaltic clod of earth is on fire.
μέταλλον δʼ αὐτῆς ἔστι πλησίον ἐπὶ λόφου· τὸ δὲ τμηθὲν ἐκπληροῦται πάλιν τῷ χρόνῳ, τῆς ἐγχωννυμένης εἰς τὰ ὀρύγματα γῆς μεταβαλλούσης εἰς ἄσφαλτον, ὥς φησι Ποσειδώνιος.
A mine of it is nearby on a hill; and the part that is cut out is filled up again in course of time, as the earth cast into the excavations changes into asphalt, as Posidonius says.
λέγει δʼ ἐκεῖνος καὶ τὴν ἀμπελῖτιν γῆν ἀσφαλτώδη τὴν ἐν Σελευκείᾳ τῇ Πιερίᾳ μεταλλευομένην ἄκος τῆς φθειριώσης ἀμπέλου· χρισθεῖσαν γὰρ μετʼ ἐλαίου φθείρειν τὸ θηρίον πρὶν ἐπὶ τοὺς βλαστοὺς τῆς ῥίζης ἀναβῆναι· τοιαύτην δʼ εὑρεθῆναι καὶ ἐν Ῥόδῳ πρυτανεύοντος αὐτοῦ, πλείονος δʼ ἐλαίου δεῖσθαι.
He also says that the asphaltic "ampelitis" earth, which is mined at Seleucia in Pieria, is a cure for the vine-infesting louse; for when smeared on with oil, it destroys the insect before it can crawl up from the roots to the young shoots; and he says that a similar earth was found also in Rhodes when he was prytanis there, but it required more oil.
μετὰ δʼ Ἀπολλωνίαν Βυλλιακὴ καὶ Ὠρικὸν καὶ τὸ ἐπίνειον αὐτοῦ ὁ Πάνορμος καὶ τὰ Κεραύνια ὄρη, ἡ ἀρχὴ τοῦ στόματος τοῦ Ἰονίου κόλπου καὶ τοῦ Ἀδρίου.
After Apollonia are Bylliace, and Oricum, and its seaport Panormus, and the Ceraunian Mountains, which are the beginning of the mouth of the Ionian Gulf and the Adriatic.
§7.5.9τὸ μὲν οὖν στόμα κοινὸν ἀμφοῖν ἐστι, διαφέρει δὲ ὁ Ἰόνιος διότι τοῦ πρώτου μέρους τῆς θαλάττης ταύτης ὄνομα τοῦτʼ ἐστίν, ὁ δʼ Ἀδρίας τῆς ἐντὸς μέχρι τοῦ μυχοῦ, νυνὶ δὲ καὶ τῆς συμπάσης.
Now the mouth is common to both, but the Ionian Sea differs in that this is the name of the first part of this sea, whereas the Adriatic is the name of the inner part as far as the recess, though now it is also the name of the sea as a whole.
φησὶ δʼ ὁ Θεόπομπος τῶν ὀνομάτων τὸ μὲν ἥκειν ἀπὸ ἀνδρὸς ἡγησαμένου τῶν τόπων ἐξ Ἴσσης τὸ γένος, τὸν Ἀδρίαν δὲ ποταμοῦ ἐπώνυμον γεγονέναι.
Theopompus says that of these names, one comes from a man, of Issan origin, who ruled these regions, and that the Adriatic was named after a river.
στάδιοι δʼ ἀπὸ τῶν Λιβυρνῶν ἐπὶ τὰ Κεραύνια μικρῷ πλείους ἢ δισχίλιοι.
The distance from the Liburnians to the Ceraunian Mountains is slightly more than two thousand stadia.
Θεόπομπος δὲ τὸν πάντα ἀπὸ τοῦ μυχοῦ πλοῦν ἡμερῶν ἓξ εἴρηκε, πεζῇ δὲ τὸ μῆκος τῆς Ἰλλυρίδος καὶ τριάκοντα· πλεονάζειν δέ μοι δοκεῖ.
But Theopompus says that the entire voyage from the recess is six days, and on foot the length of Illyria is thirty days; but to me he seems to exaggerate.
καὶ ἄλλα δʼ οὐ πιστὰ λέγει, τό τε συντετρῆσθαι τὰ πελάγη ἀπὸ τοῦ εὑρίσκεσθαι κέραμόν τε Χῖον καὶ Θάσιον ἐν τῷ Νάρωνι, καὶ τὸ ἄμφω κατοπτεύεσθαι τὰ πελάγη ἀπό τινος ὄρους, καὶ τῶν νήσων τῶν Λιβυρνίδων τινὰ τιθείς, ὥστε κύκλον ἔχειν σταδίων καὶ πεντακοσίων, καὶ τὸ τὸν Ἴστρον ἑνὶ τῶν στομάτων εἰς τὸν Ἀδρίαν ἐμβάλλειν.
He also says other things that are not credible: that the seas are connected with each other, based on the fact that Chian and Thasian pottery is found in the Naron; and that both seas can be overlooked from a certain mountain; and when he places one of the Liburnian islands so as to have a circumference of five hundred stadia; and that the Ister empties into the Adriatic by one of its mouths.
τοιαῦτα δὲ καὶ τοῦ Ἐρατοσθένους ἔνια παρακούσματά ἐστι λαοδογματικά, καθάπερ Πολύβιός φησι καὶ περὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων λέγων συγγραφέων.
Some of Eratosthenes' statements are also such popular errors due to hearsay, just as Polybius says when speaking of him and the other historians.