§34.12.1καὶ 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 Τιθείς, ὥστε κύκλον ἔχειν σταδίων καὶ πεντακοσίων, καὶ τὸ τὸν Ἴστρον ἑνὶ τῶν στομάτων εἰς τὸν Ἀδρίαν ἐμβάλλειν.
And he says other things that are not credible, both that the seas are connected under the earth because Chian and Thasian pottery are found in the Naron, and that both seas can be seen from a certain mountain, and that of the Liburnian islands, Titheis has a circumference of five hundred stadia, and that the Ister empties into the Adriatic by one of its mouths.
§34.12.2τοιαῦτα δὲ καὶ τοῦ Ἐρατοσθένους ἔνια παρακούσματά ἐστι λαοδογματικά, καθάπερ Πολύβιός φησι καὶ περὶ αὐτοῦ καὶ τῶν ἄλλων λέγων συγγραφέων. — §34.12.2aἐκ δὲ τῆς Ἀπολλωνίας εἰς Μακεδονίαν ἡ Ἐγνατία ἐστὶν ὁδὸς πρὸς ἕω, βεβηματισμένη κατὰ μίλιον καὶ κατεστηλωμένη μέχρι Κυψέλων καὶ Ἕβρου ποταμοῦ· μιλίων δʼ ἐστὶ πεντακοσίων τριάκοντα πέντε.
And some such things in Eratosthenes are popular misconceptions arising from hearsay, just as Polybius says when speaking about him and other writers. — And from Apollonia to Macedonia, the Egnatian Way runs eastward, measured out by miles and marked with milestones as far as Cypsela and the Hebrus River; and it is five hundred and thirty-five miles.
§34.12.3λογιζομένῳ δέ, ὡς μὲν οἱ πολλοί, τὸ μίλιον ὀκταστάδιον τετρακισχίλιοι ἂν εἶεν στάδιοι καὶ ἐπʼ αὐτοῖς διακόσιοι ὀγδοήκοντα, §34.12.4ὡς δὲ Πολύβιος, προστιθεὶς τῷ ὀκτασταδίῳ δίπλεθρον, ὅ ἐστι τρίτον σταδίου, προσθετέον ἄλλους σταδίους ἑκατὸν ἑβδομήκοντα ὀκτώ, τὸ τρίτον τοῦ τῶν μιλίων ἀριθμοῦ.
If one calculates, as most people do, the mile at eight stadia, there would be four thousand two hundred and eighty stadia, but as Polybius does, adding two plethra, which is a third of a stadium, to the eight stadia, one must add another one hundred and seventy-eight stadia, which is a third of the number of miles.
§34.12.5συμβαίνει δʼ ἀπὸ ἴσου διαστήματος συμπίπτειν εἰς τὴν αὐτὴν ὁδὸν τούς τʼ ἐκ τῆς Ἀπολλωνίας ὁρμηθέντας καὶ τοὺς ἐξ Ἐπιδάμνου.
And it happens that those starting from Apollonia and those from Epidamnus meet at the same road from an equal distance.
§34.12.6ἡ μὲν οὖν πᾶσα Ἐγνατία καλεῖται, ἡ δὲ πρώτη ἐπὶ Κανδαουίας λέγεται, ὄρους Ἰλλυρικοῦ, διὰ Λυχνιδοῦ πόλεως καὶ Πυλῶνος, τόπου ὁρίζοντος ἐν τῇ ὁδῷ τήν τε Ἰλλυρίδα καὶ τὴν Μακεδονίαν.
The whole road, then, is called Egnatian, but the first part is named after Candavia, an Illyrian mountain, passing through the city of Lychnidus and Pylon, a place on the road marking the boundary between Illyria and Macedonia.
§34.12.7ἐκεῖθεν δʼ ἐστὶ παρὰ Βαρνοῦντα διὰ Ἡρακλείας καὶ Λυγκηστῶν καὶ Ἐορδῶν εἰς Ἔδεσσαν καὶ Πέλλαν μέχρι Θεσσαλονικείας· §34.12.8μίλια δʼ ἐστί, φησὶ Πολύβιος, ταῦτα διακόσια ἑξήκοντα ἑπτά. — §34.12.9ὅτι 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, §34.12.10τὸ τρίτον τοῦ σταδίου προσλαμβάνων ἐπὶ τοῖς ὀκτὼ τοῦ μιλίου σταδίοις.
And from there, it runs past Barnus through Heracleia and the lands of the Lyncestae and Eordae to Edessa and Pella, as far as Thessalonica; and this, Polybius says, is two hundred and sixty-seven miles. — [Summarizing:] That from Perinthus to Byzantium is six hundred and thirty stadia, and from the Hebrus and Cypsela to Byzantium, as far as the Cyanean rocks, is three thousand one hundred, as Artemidorus says, and the entire length from the Ionian Gulf near Apollonia to Byzantium is seven thousand three hundred and twenty stadia; but Polybius adds another one hundred and eighty, adding the third of a stadium to the eight stadia of the mile.
§34.12.11ἡ δὲ περίμετρος μὴ κατακολπίζοντι τετρακισχιλίων σταδίων, ὡς Πολύβιος. — §34.12.12Πολυβίου δʼ εἰρηκότος τὸ ἀπὸ Μαλεῶν ἐπὶ τὰς ἄρκτους μέχρι τοῦ Ἴστρου διάστημα περὶ μυρίους σταδίους, εὐθύνει τοῦτο ὁ Ἀρτεμίδωρος οὐκ ἀτόπως κατʼ ἐκεῖνον δὴ συμβαίνει τὸ ἐκ τοῦ Ἴστρου ἐπὶ Μαλέας ἑξακισχιλίων πεντακοσίων.
And the circumference, if one does not follow the gulfs, is four thousand stadia, according to Polybius. — And although Polybius has said that the distance from Maleae northward to the Ister is about ten thousand stadia, Artemidorus corrects this not unreasonably; for according to him, the distance from the Ister to Maleae turns out to be six thousand five hundred.
αἴτιον δὲ τούτου τὸ μὴ τὴν σύντομον καταμετρεῖν ἀλλὰ τὴν τυχοῦσαν, ἣν ἐπορεύθη τῶν στρατηγῶν τις.
The cause of this is that he did not measure the shortest route, but any chance route that some general happened to march.