Strabo, Geography, Horace Leonard Jones (Translator), 13.1.10

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[10] Now Zeleia¹ is situated on the farthermost foothill of Mt. Ida, being one hundred and ninety stadia distant from Cyzicus and about eighty stadia from the nearest part of the sea, where the Aesepus empties. And the poet mentions severally, in continuous order, the places that lie along the coast after the Aesepus River:

And they who held Adrasteia and the land of Apaesus, and held Pityeia and the steep mountain of Tereia—these were led by Adrastus and Amphius of the linen corslet, the two sons of Merops of Percote.

²These places lie below Zeleia,³ but they are occupied by Cyziceni and Priapeni even as far as the coast. Now near Zeleia is the Tarsius River,⁴ which is crossed twenty times by the same road, like the Heptaporus River,⁵.which is mentioned by the poet.⁶ And the river that flows from Nicomedeia into Nicaea is crossed twenty-four times, and the river that flows from Pholoe into the Eleian country⁷ is crossed many times . . . Scarthon twenty-five times,⁸ and the river that flows from the country of the Coscinii into Alabanda is crossed many times, and the river that flows from Tyana into Soli through the Taurus is crossed seventy-five times.

Geography. Strabo. Horace Leonard Jones (Translator). London. 1924-1929.

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Geography (Books 6-14) (English) (Strabo. The Geography of Strabo, Vols. 3-6. Jones, Horace Leonard, translator. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1924-1929 (printing).)

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Γεωγραφικά Perseus (Strabo. Strabonis Geographica, Vols. 1-3. Meineke, August, editor. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.) — 13.1.10 focus

[10] ἡ μὲν δὴ Ζέλεια ἐν τῇ παρωρείᾳ τῇ ὑστάτῃ τῆς Ἴδης ἔστιν, ἀπέχουσα Κυζίκου μὲν σταδίους ἐνενήκοντα καὶ ἑκατόν, τῆς δʼ ἐγγυτάτω θαλάττης καθʼ ἣν ἐκδίδωσιν Αἴσηπος ὅσον ὀγδοήκοντα. ἐπιμερίζει δὲ συνεχῶς τὰ κατὰ τὴν μετὰ τὸν Αἴσηπον

οἳ δʼ Ἀδρήστειάν τʼ εἶχον καὶ δῆμον Ἀπαισοῦ,

καὶ Πιτύαν εἶχον καὶ Τηρείης ὄρος αἰπύ,

τῶν ἦρχʼ Ἄδρηστός τε καὶ Ἄμφιος λινοθώρηξ,

υἷε δύω Μέροπος Περκωσίου.

¹ ταῦτα δὲ τὰ χωρία τῇ Ζελείᾳ μὲν ὑποπέπτωκεν, ἔχουσι δὲ Κυζικηνοί τε καὶ Πριαπηνοὶ μέχρι καὶ τῆς παραλίας. περὶ μὲν οὖν τὴν Ζέλειαν ὁ Τάρσιος ἔστι ποταμός, εἴκοσιν ἔχων διαβάσεις τῇ αὐτῇ ὁδῷ, καθάπερ ὁ Ἑπτάπορος, ὅν φησιν ὁ ποιητής².

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Geography Perseus (Strabo. The Geography of Strabo, Vols. 1-3. Hamilton, Hans Claude, translator; Falconer, William, translator. London: Henry G. Bohn, 1854-1857.) — 13.1.10 focus

[10] Now Zeleia is situated at the farthest extremity of the country lying at the foot of Ida, and is distant 190 stadia from Cyzicus, and about 80¹ from the nearest sea, into which the Aesepus discharges itself.

The poet then immediately gives in detail the parts of the sea-coast which follow the Aesepus;

those who occupied Adrasteia, and the territory of Apaesus, and Pityeia and the lofty mountain Tereia, these were commanded by Adrastus, and Amphius with the linen corslet, the two sons of Merops of Percote,²

These places lie below Zeleia, and are occupied by Cyziceni, and Priapeni as far as the sea-coast. The river Tarsius³ runs near Zeleia; it is crossed twenty times on the same road, like the Heptaporus, mentioned by the poet, which is crossed seven times. The river flowing from Nicomedia to Nicaea is crossed four-and-twenty times; the river which flows from Pholoe to Eleia, several times; [that flowing from * * * * to Scardon,⁴] five-and-twenty times; that running from Coscinii to Alabanda, in many places, and the river flowing from Tyana through the Taurus to Soli, is crossed seventy-five times.

Notes on the current edition

Geography

1. On the site of Zeleia, see Leaf, Strabo on the Troad, p. 66.

2. Hom. Il. 2.828

3. The places in question appear to have belonged to Zeleia. Leaf (op. cit., p. 65 translates: “are commanded by Zeleia”; but the present translator is sure that, up to the present passage, Strabo has always used ὑποπίπτω in a purely geographical sense (e.g., cf. 9. 1. 15, and especially 12. 4. 6, where Strabo makes substantially the same statement concerning Zeleia as in the present passage). But see Leaf’s note (op. cit.), p. 67.

4. On this river see Leaf, work last cited p. 67.

5. Strabo does not mean that the Heptaporus was crossed twenty times. The name itself means the river of “seven fords” (or ferries).

6. Hom. Il. 12. 20

7. i.e., Elis, in the Peloponnesus.

8. The text is corrupt; and “Scarthon,” whether it applies to a river or a people, is otherwise unknown. However, this whole passage, “And the river that flows from Nicomedeia . . . crossed seventy-five times,” appears to be a gloss, and is ejected from the text by Kramer and Meineke (see Leaf’s Strabo and the Troad, p. 65, note 4).

Strabo Geography 13.1.10

Horace Leonard Jones (Translator)

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