§7.fragments.55ὅτι ἡ πόλις ὁ Ἐλεοῦς ἀρσενικῶς λέγεται· τάχα δὲ καὶ ὁ Τραπεζοῦς.
The city Elaeus is spoken of in the masculine gender; and perhaps Trapezus is also.
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§7.fragments.56ἔστι δʼ ἐν τῷ περίπλῳ τούτῳ τῷ μετὰ Ἐλαιοῦντα ἡ εἰσβολὴ πρῶτον ἡ εἰς τὴν Προποντίδα διὰ τῶν στενῶν, ἥν φασιν ἀρχὴν εἶναι τοῦ Ἑλλησπόντου· ἐνταῦθα δʼ ἐστὶ τὸ Κυνὸς σῆμα ἄκρα, οἱ δʼ Ἑκάβης φασί· καὶ γὰρ δείκνυται κάμψαντι τὴν ἄκραν τάφος αὐτῆς.
In this coastal voyage after Elaeus is first the entrance into the Propontis through the straits, which they say is the beginning of the Hellespont; here is Cape Cynossema, though some say it is Hecabe's, for indeed her tomb is shown to one who has doubled the cape.
εἶτα Μάδυτος καὶ Σηστιὰς ἄκρα, καθʼ ἣν τὸ Ξέρξου ζεῦγμα, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα Σηστός.
Then come Madytus and Cape Sestias, opposite which was the bridge of Xerxes, and after these Sestos.
ἀπὸ δὲ Ἐλαιοῦντος ἐπὶ τὸ ζεῦγμα ἑκατὸν ἑβδομήκοντα· μετὰ δὲ Σηστὸν ἐπὶ Αἰγὸς ποταμοὺς διακόσιοι ὀγδοήκοντα, πολίχνην κατεσκαμμένην, ὅπου φασὶ τὸν λίθον πεσεῖν κατὰ τὰ Περσικά· εἶτα Καλλίπολις, ἀφʼ ἧς εἰς Λάμψακον δίαρμα εἰς τὴν Ἀσίαν τετταράκοντα· εἶτα πολίχνιον κατεσκαμμένον Κριθωτή· εἶτα Πακτύη· εἶτα τὸ Μακρὸν τεῖχος καὶ Λευκὴ ἀκτὴ καὶ τὸ Ἱερὸν ὄρος καὶ Πέρινθος, Σαμίων κτίσμα· εἶτα Σηλυβρία.
From Elaeus to the bridge is one hundred and seventy stadia; and after Sestos to Aegospotami is two hundred and eighty stadia, a ruined small town, where they say the stone fell during the Persian War; then Callipolis, from which the crossing into Asia to Lampsacus is forty stadia; then the ruined small town Crithote; then Pactye; then the Long Wall, Leuce Acte, the Sacred Mountain, and Perinthus, a colony of the Samians; then Selybria.
ὑπέρκειται δʼ αὐτῶν Σίλτα, καὶ τὸ Ἱερὸν ὄρος τιμᾶται ὑπὸ τῶν ἐγχωρίων καὶ ἔστιν οἷον ἀκρόπολις τῆς χώρας.
Above them lies Silta, and the Sacred Mountain is worshiped by the natives and is like an acropolis of the country.
ἄσφαλτον δʼ ἐξίησιν εἰς τὴν θάλασσαν, καθʼ ὃν τόπον ἡ Προκόννησος ἐγγυτάτω τῆς γῆς ἐστι ἀπὸ ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι σταδίων, τὸ μέταλλον ἔχουσα τῆς λευκῆς μαρμάρου πολύ τε καὶ σπουδαῖον.
It discharges asphalt into the sea at the place where Proconnesus is nearest to the land at a distance of one hundred and twenty stadia, which island has a large and excellent quarry of white marble.
μετὰ δὲ Σηλυβρίαν Ἀθύρας ἐστὶ ποταμὸς καὶ Βαθυνίας· εἶτα Βυζάντιον καὶ τὰ ἐφεξῆς μέχρι Κυανέων πετρῶν.
After Selybria are the rivers Athyras and Bathynias; then Byzantium and the succeeding parts as far as the Cyanean Rocks.
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§7.fragments.57ὅτι ἐκ Περίνθου εἰς Βυζάντιόν εἰσιν ἑξακόσιοι τριάκοντα· ἀπὸ δὲ Ἕβρου καὶ Κυψέλων εἰς Βυζάντιον μέχρι Κυανέων τρισχίλιοι ἑκατόν, ὥς φησιν Ἀρτεμίδωρος· τὸ δὲ σύμπαν μῆκος ἀπὸ Ἰονίου κόλπου τοῦ κατὰ Ἀπολλωνίαν μέχρι Βυζαντίου ἑπτακισχίλιοι τριακόσιοι εἴκοσι· προστίθησι δʼ ὁ Πολύβιος καὶ ἄλλους ἑκατὸν ὀγδοήκοντα, τὸ τρίτον τοῦ σταδίου προσλαμβάνων ἐπὶ τοῖς ὀκτὼ τοῦ μιλίου σταδίοις.
From Perinthus to Byzantium is six hundred and thirty stadia; and from the Hebrus and Cypsela through Byzantium as far as the Cyanean Rocks is three thousand one hundred stadia, as Artemidorus says; but the entire length from the Ionian Gulf near Apollonia to Byzantium is seven thousand three hundred and twenty stadia; and Polybius adds another one hundred and eighty, adding a third of a stadium to the eight stadia of a mile.
Δημήτριος δʼ ὁ Σκήψιος ἐν τοῖς περὶ τοῦ Τρωικοῦ διακόσμου τὸ μὲν ἐκ Περίνθου μέχρι Βυζαντίου φησὶν ἑξακοσίους σταδίους, τὸ δʼ ἴσον μέχρι Παρίου.
Demetrius of Scepsis, in his work On the Trojan Array, says that the distance from Perinthus to Byzantium is six hundred stadia, and an equal distance to Parium.
τὴν δὲ Προποντίδα μήκει μὲν χιλίων καὶ τετρακοσίων ἀποφαίνει σταδίων, εἰς εὖρος δὲ πεντακοσίων.
And he shows that the Propontis is one thousand four hundred stadia in length, and five hundred in width.
τοῦ δὲ Ἑλλησπόντου τὸ στενώτατον ἑπταστάδιόν φησι, μῆκος δὲ τετρακοσίων.
And he says that the narrowest part of the Hellespont is seven stadia, and its length is four hundred.
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§7.fragments.58ὅτι Ἑλλήσποντος οὐχ ὁμολογεῖται παρὰ πᾶσιν ὁ αὐτός, ἀλλὰ δόξαι περὶ αὐτοῦ λέγονται πλείους.
The Hellespont is not agreed upon by everyone as being the same, but rather several opinions are expressed about it.
οἱ μὲν γὰρ ὅλην τὴν Προποντίδα καλοῦσιν Ἑλλήσποντον, οἱ δὲ μέρος τῆς Προποντίδος τὸ ἐντὸς Περίνθου· οἱ δὲ προσλαμβάνουσι καὶ τῆς ἔξω θαλάσσης τῆς πρὸς τὸ Αἰγαῖον πέλαγος καὶ τὸν Μέλανα κόλπον ἀνεῳγμένης, καὶ οὗτοι ἄλλος ἄλλα ἀποτεμνόμενος· οἱ μὲν τὸ ἀπὸ Σιγείου ἐπὶ Λάμψακον καὶ Κύζικον ἢ Πάριον ἢ Πρίαπον, ὁ δὲ προσλαμβάνων καὶ τὸ ἀπὸ Σιγρίου τῆς Λεσβίας.
For some call the entire Propontis the Hellespont, while others call that part of the Propontis which is within Perinthus; and others include also a part of the outer sea that opens towards the Aegean Sea and the Melas Gulf, and among these, each cuts off a different portion: some the part from Sigeum to Lampsacus and Cyzicus or Parium or Priapus, while another includes also the part from Sigrium in Lesbos.
οὐκ ὀκνοῦσι δέ τινες καὶ τὸ μέχρι τοῦ Μυρτῴου πελάγους ἅπαν καλεῖν Ἑλλήσποντον, εἴπερ, ὥς φησιν ἐν τοῖς ὕμνοις Πίνδαρος, οἱ μεθʼ Ἡρακλέους ἐκ Τροίας πλέοντες διὰ παρθένιον Ἕλλας πορθμόν, ἐπεὶ τῷ Μυρτῴῳ συνῆψαν, εἰς Κῶν ἐπαλινδρόμησαν ζεφύρου ἀντιπνεύσαντος.
And some do not hesitate to call the whole sea as far as the Myrtoan Sea the Hellespont, if indeed, as Pindar says in his hymns, those sailing with Heracles from Troy through the maiden Helle's strait, when they reached the Myrtoan Sea, ran back to Cos because a west wind blew against them.
οὕτω δὲ καὶ τὸ Αἰγαῖον πέλαγος μέχρι τοῦ Θερμαίου κόλπου καὶ τῆς κατὰ Θετταλίαν καὶ Μακεδονίαν θαλάσσης ἅπαν ἀξιοῦσιν Ἑλλήσποντον προσαγορεύειν δεῖν, μάρτυρα καὶ Ὅμηρον καλοῦντες.
In this way, they also claim that the entire Aegean Sea as far as the Thermaic Gulf and the sea along Thessaly and Macedonia should be called the Hellespont, calling Homer too as a witness.
φησὶ γάρ
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ὄψεαι, ἢν ἐθέλῃσθα καὶ αἴ κέν τοι τὰ μεμήλῃ,
ἦρι μάλʼ Ἑλλήσποντον ἐπʼ ἰχθυοέντα πλεούσας
νῆας ἐμάς.
For he says: "Thou shalt see, if thou wilt and if it be a care to thee, my ships sailing early in the morning over the fish-frequented Hellespont.
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ἐλέγχεται δὲ τὸ τοιοῦτον ἐκ τῶν ἐπῶν ἐκείνων
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ἥρως Ἰμβρασίδης, ὃς ἄρʼ Αἰνόθεν εἰληλούθει· "
οὗτος δὲ τῶν Θρᾳκῶν ἡγεῖτο
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ὅσσους Ἑλλήσποντος ἀγάρροος ἐντὸς ἐέργει· "
τοὺς γὰρ ἐφεξῆς τούτων ἐκτὸς ἂν καὶ τοῦ Ἑλλησπόντου καθιδρυμένους ἀποφαίνοι.
"But such an opinion is refuted by those verses: "the hero, son of Imbrasus, who had come from Aenus; "and he led the Thracians, "as many as the strong-flowing Hellespont shuts within; "for he would thus show those next to these to be situated outside of the Hellespont as well.
ἡ μὲν γὰρ Αἶνος κεῖται κατὰ τὴν πρότερον Ἀψυνθίδα νῦν δὲ Κορπιλικὴν λεγομένην, ἡ δὲ τῶν Κικόνων ἐφεξῆς πρὸς δύσιν.
For Aenus lies in what was formerly called Apsynthis, but now Corpilice, and the land of the Cicones lies next to it towards the west.
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§7.fragments.58aΤετραχωρῖται, οἱ Βεσσοί, ὡς Στράβων ἑβδόμῃ.
Tetrachoritae, the Bessi, as Strabo says in the seventh book.
οὗτοι λέγονται καὶ Τετράκωμοι.
These are also called Tetracomi.
Stephanus, v. Τετραχωρῖται.
Stephanus, under Tetrachoritae.
§7.fragments.58bλέγει γὰρ (Στράβων) αὐτὸν ἐν τῇ ἑβδόμῃ (τῶν γεωγραφουμένων) ἐγνωκέναι Ποσειδώνιον τὸν ἀπὸ τῆς στοᾶς φιλόσοφον συγγενομένου Σκιπίωνι τῷ τὴν Καρχηδόνα ἑλόντι.
For he says in the seventh book that he knew Posidonius, the philosopher of the Porch, who associated with Scipio, the captor of Carthage.
Athenaeus 14 p. 657 f.
Athenaeus 14 p. 657 f.