Strabo, Geography, Horace Leonard Jones (Translator), 13.1.20

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[20] After Lampsacus come Abydus and the intervening places of which the poet, who comprises with them the territory of Lampsacus and part of the territory of Parium (for these two cities were not yet in existence in the Trojan times), speaks as follows:

And those who dwelt about Percote and Practius, and held Sestus and Abydus and goodly Arisbe—these in turn were led by Asius, the son of Hyrtacus, . . . who was brought by his sorrel horses from Arisbe, from the River Sellëeis.

¹In speaking thus, the poet seems to set forth Arisbe, whence he says Asius came, as the royal residence of Asius:

who was brought by his horses from Arisbe, from the River Sellëeis.

But these places² are so obscure that even investigators do not agree about them, except that they are in the neighborhood of Abydus and Lampsacus and Parium, and that the old Percote,³ the site, underwent a change of name.

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.) — 13.1.20 focus

[20] μετὰ δὲ Λάμψακον ἔστιν Ἄβυδος καὶ τὰ μεταξὺ χωρία, περὶ ὧν οὕτως εἴρηκε συλλαβὼν ὁ ποιητὴς καὶ τὴν Λαμψακηνὴν καὶ τῆς Παριανῆς τινα (οὔπω γὰρ ἦσαν αὗται αἱ πόλεις κατὰ τὰ Τρωικά)

οἳ δʼ ἄρα Περκώτην καὶ Πράκτιον ἀμφενέμοντο,

καὶ Σηστὸν καὶ Ἄβυδον ἔχον καὶ δῖαν Ἀρίσβην·

τῶν αὖθʼ Ὑρτακίδης ἦρχʼ Ἄσιος

φησίν

ὃν Ἀρίσβηθεν φέρον ἵπποι

αἴθωνες μεγάλοι ποταμοῦ ἄπο Σελλήεντος.

¹ οὕτω δʼ εἰπὼν ἔοικε τὸ βασίλειον ἀποφαίνειν τοῦ Ἀσίου τὴν Ἀρίσβην, ὅθεν ἥκειν αὐτόν φησιν

ὃν Ἀρίσβηθεν φέρον ἵπποι ποταμοῦ

ἄπο Σελλήεντος.

οὕτω δʼ ἀφανῆ τὰ χωρία ταῦτά ἐστιν ὥστε οὐδʼ ὁμολογοῦσι περὶ αὐτῶν οἱ ἱστοροῦντες, πλὴν ὅτι περὶ Ἄβυδον καὶ Λάμψακόν ἐστι καὶ Πάριον, καὶ ὅτι ἡ πάλαι Περκώτη μετωνομάσθη ὁ τόπος.

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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.) — 13.1.20 focus

[20] Next to Lampsacus is Abydos, and the intervening places, of which the poet speaks in such a manner as to comprehend both Lampsacene and some parts of Pariane, for, in the Trojan times, the above cities were not yet in existence:

those who inhabited Percote, Practius, Sestos, Abydos, and the famed Arisbe, were led by Asius, the son of Hyrtacus,¹

who, he says,

came from Arisbe, from the river Selleïs in a chariot drawn by large and furious coursers;

implying by these words that Arisbe was the royal seat of Asius, whence, he says, he came,

drawn by coursers from the river Selleis.

But these places are so little known, that writers do not agree among themselves about their situation, except that they are near Abydos, Lampsacus, and Parium, and that the name of the last place was changed from Percope to Percote.

Notes on the current edition

Geography

1. Hom. Il. 2.835

2. i.e., Arisbe, Percote, and the Sellëeis. Strabo himself locates the Practius (13.1. 4, 7, 8, 21). On the sites of these places, see Leaf’s Troy, pp. 188 ff., his note in Jour. Hellenic Studies, XXXVII ( 1917), p. 26, and his Strabo on the Troad, pp. 108 ff.

3. Homer’s Percote, on the sea.

Strabo Geography 13.1.20

Horace Leonard Jones (Translator)

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