§7.fragments.27ὅτι ἡ Παλλήνη χερρόνησος, ἧς ἐν τῷ ἰσθμῷ κεῖται ἡ πρὶν μὲν Ποτίδαια νῦν δὲ Κασσάνδρεια, Φλέγρα τὸ πρὶν ἐκαλεῖτο· ᾤκουν δʼ αὐτὴν οἱ μυθευόμενοι Γίγαντες, ἔθνος ἀσεβὲς καὶ ἄνομον, οὓς Ἡρακλῆς διέφθειρεν· ἔχει δὲ πόλεις τέσσαρας, Ἄφυτιν Μένδην Σκιώνην Σάνην.
The Pallene peninsula, upon whose isthmus lies the city formerly called Potidaea but now Cassandreia, was formerly called Phlegra; and the Giants of myth used to inhabit it, an impious and lawless tribe, whom Heracles destroyed; and it has four cities, Aphytis, Mende, Scione, and Sane.
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§7.fragments.28ὅτι διεῖχε Ποτιδαίας Ὄλυνθος ἑβδομήκοντα σταδίους.
Olynthus was seventy stadia distant from Potidaea.
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Vatican Epitome.
§7.fragments.29ὅτι τῆς Ὀλύνθου ἐπίνειόν ἐστι Μηκύπερνα ἐν τῷ Τορωναίῳ κόλπῳ.
The seaport of Olynthus is Mecyberna, on the Toronaic Gulf.
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§7.fragments.30ὅτι πλησίον Ὀλύνθου χωρίον ἐστὶ κοῖλον, καλούμενον Κανθαρώλεθρον ἐκ τοῦ συμβεβηκότος· τὸ γὰρ ζῷον ὁ κάνθαρος τῆς πέριξ χώρας γινόμενος, ἡνίκα ψαύσῃ τοῦ χωρίου ἐκείνου, διαφθείρεται.
Near Olynthus is a hollow place, called Cantharolethron from what happens there; for the insect called the cantharos (beetle) which is produced in the surrounding country, whenever it touches that place, is destroyed.
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§7.fragments.31μετὰ δὲ Κασάνδρειαν ἐφεξῆς ἡ λοιπὴ τοῦ Τορωνικοῦ κόλπου παραλία μέχρι Δέρρεως· ἄκρα δʼ ἐστὶν ἀνταίρουσα τῷ Καναστραίῳ καὶ ποιοῦσα τὸν κόλπον.
After Cassandreia, in order, comes the rest of the coast of the Toronaic Gulf as far as Derris; and this is a cape rising opposite Canastraeon and forming the gulf.
ἀπαντικρὺ δὲ τῆς Δέρρεως πρὸς ἕω τὰ ἄκρα τοῦ Ἄθω, μεταξὺ δὲ ὁ Σιγγικὸς κόλπος ἀπὸ τῆς ἐν αὐτῷ πόλεως ἀρχαίας κατεσκαμμένης Σίγγου τοὔνομα.
And right opposite Derris, towards the east, are the extremities of Athos, and between them is the Singitic Gulf, named after the ancient city of Singus, now razed to the ground, which was in it.
μεθʼ ἣν Ἄκανθος ἐπὶ τῷ ἰσθμῷ τοῦ Ἄθω κειμένη πόλις, Ἀνδρίων κτίσμα, ἀφʼ ἧς συχνοὶ καὶ τὸν κόλπον Ἀκάνθιον καλοῦσι.
After Singus is Acanthus, a city situated on the isthmus of Athos, a foundation of the Andrians, from which many also call the gulf the Acanthian Gulf.
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Vatican Epitome.
§7.fragments.32ὅτι ἀντικρὺ Κανάστρου, ἄκρου τῆς Παλλήνης, ἡ Δέρρις ἐστὶν ἄκρα πλησίον Κωφοῦ λιμένος, καὶ ὁ Τορωναῖος κόλπος ὑπὸ τούτων ἀφορίζεται.
Opposite Canastron, the cape of Pallene, is the cape of Derris near Kophos Harbor, and the Toronaic Gulf is bounded by these.
καὶ πρὸς ἀνατολὰς αὖθις κεῖται τὸ ἄκρον τοῦ Ἄθωνος, ὃ ἀφορίζει τὸν Σιγγιτικὸν κόλπον, ὡς εἶναι ἐφεξῆς κόλπους τοῦ Αἰγαίου πελάγους πρὸς βορρᾶν, ἀλλήλων ἀπέχοντας οὕτως, Μαλιακὸν Παγασιτικὸν Θερμαῖον Τορωναῖον Σιγγιτικὸν Στρυμονικόν.
And towards the east again lies the extremity of Athos, which bounds the Singitic Gulf, so that there are in succession gulfs of the Aegean Sea towards the north, distant from one another in this way: the Malian, the Pagasetic, the Thermaic, the Toronaic, the Singitic, and the Strymonic.
τὰ δὲ ἄκρα Ποσείδιον μὲν τὸ μεταξὺ Μαλιακοῦ καὶ Παγασιτικοῦ, τὸ δὲ ἐφεξῆς πρὸς βορρᾶν Σηπιάς, εἶτα τὸ ἐν Παλλήνῃ Κάναστρον, εἶτα Δέρρις, εἶτα Νυμφαῖον ἐν τῷ Ἄθωνι πρὸς τῷ Σιγγιτικῷ, τὸ δὲ πρὸς τῷ Στρυμονικῷ Ἀκράθως ἄκρον, ὧν μεταξὺ ὁ Ἄθων, οὗ πρὸς ἀνατολὰς ἡ Λῆμνος· πρὸς δὲ βορρᾶν ἀφορίζει τὸν Στρυμονικὸν κόλπον ἡ Νεάπολις.
And as for the capes, Poseidion is the one between the Malian and Pagasetic, and the next towards the north is Sepias, then Canastron in Pallene, then Derris, then Nymphaeon on Athos towards the Singitic, and the cape towards the Strymonic is Akrathos, between which is Athos, to the east of which is Lemnos; and towards the north, Neapolis bounds the Strymonic Gulf.
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§7.fragments.33ὅτι Ἄκανθος πόλις ἐν τῷ Σιγγιτικῷ κόλπῳ ἐστὶ παράλιος πλησίον τῆς τοῦ Ξέρξου διώρυχος· ἔχει δʼ ὁ Ἄθων πέντε πόλεις, Δῖον Κλεωνὰς Θύσσον Ὀλόφυξιν Ἀκροθώους· αὕτη δὲ πρὸς τῇ κορυφῇ τοῦ Ἄθωνος κεῖται.
Acanthus is a coastal city on the Singitic Gulf near the canal of Xerxes; and Athos has five cities, Dium, Cleonae, Thyssus, Olophyxus, and Acrothoi; and the last lies near the summit of Athos.
ἔστι δʼ ὁ Ἄθων ὄρος μαστοειδὲς ὀξύτατον ὑψηλότατον· οὗ οἱ τὴν κορυφὴν οἰκοῦντες ὁρῶσι τὸν ἥλιον ἀνατέλλοντα πρὸ ὡρῶν τριῶν τῆς ἐν τῇ παραλίᾳ ἀνατολῆς.
And Athos is a breast-shaped mountain, extremely sharp and very high, whose inhabitants on the summit see the sun rising three hours before the sunrise on the coast.
καὶ ἔστιν ἀπὸ πόλεως τῆς Ἀκάνθου ὁ περίπλους τῆς χερρονήσου ἕως Σταγείρου, πόλεως τοῦ Ἀριστοτέλους, στάδια τετρακόσια, ἐν ᾗ λιμὴν ὄνομα Κάπρος καὶ νησίον ὁμώνυμον τῷ λιμένι· εἶτα αἱ τοῦ Στρυμόνος ἐκβολαί· εἶτα Φάγρης Γαληψὸς Ἀπολλωνία, πᾶσαι πόλεις· εἶτα τὸ Νέστου στόμα τοῦ διορίζοντος Μακεδονίαν καὶ Θρᾴκην, ὡς Φίλιππος καὶ Ἀλέξανδρος ὁ τούτου παῖς διώριζον ἐν τοῖς κατʼ αὐτοὺς χρόνοις.
And from the city of Acanthus, the voyage around the peninsula as far as Stageira, the city of Aristotle, is four hundred stadia, in which is a harbor named Kapros and an island homonymous with the harbor; then the mouth of the Strymon; then Phagres, Galepsus, and Apollonia, all of which are cities; then the mouth of the Nestus, which boundaries Macedonia and Thrace, as Philip and his son Alexander bounded them in their own times.
εἰσὶ δὲ περὶ τὸν Στρυμονικὸν κόλπον πόλεις καὶ ἕτεραι, οἷον Μύρκινος Ἄργιλος Δραβῆσκος Δάτον, ὅπερ καὶ ἀρίστην ἔχει χώραν καὶ εὔκαρπον καὶ ναυπήγια καὶ χρυσοῦ μέταλλα· ἀφʼ οὗ καὶ παροιμία
Δάτον ἀγαθῶν,
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ἀγαθῶν ἀγαθῖδας. Epit.
And there are other cities around the Strymonic Gulf, such as Myrcinus, Argilus, Drabescus, and Daton, which has a very excellent and fertile territory, dockyards, and gold mines; from which also comes the proverb, "Daton of good things," as also "clews of good things." Epitome.
§7.fragments.34ὅτι πλεῖστα μέταλλά ἐστι χρυσοῦ ἐν ταῖς Κρηνίσιν, ὅπου νῦν οἱ Φίλιπποι πόλις ἵδρυται, πλησίον τοῦ Παγγαίου ὄρους· καὶ αὐτὸ δὲ τὸ Παγγαῖον ὄρος χρυσεῖα καὶ ἀργυρεῖα ἔχει μέταλλα καὶ ἡ πέραν καὶ ἡ ἐντὸς τοῦ Στρυμόνος ποταμοῦ μέχρι Παιονίας· φασὶ δὲ καὶ τοὺς τὴν Παιονίαν γῆν ἀροῦντας εὑρίσκειν χρυσοῦ τινα μόρια.
There are very many gold mines in Crenides, where the city of Philippi is now established, near Mount Pangaion; and Mount Pangaion itself has gold and silver mines, and so has the country beyond and this side of the river Strymon as far as Paeonia; and they say that those who plow the Paeonian land also find some particles of gold.
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