Strabo, Geography, Hans Claude Hamilton (Translator), William Falconer (Translator), 13.1.46

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[46] After the Sigeian promontory, and the Achilleium, is the coast opposite to Tenedos, the Achaeïum, and Tenedos itself, distant not more than 40 stadia from the continent. It is about 80 stadia in circumference. It contains an Aeolian city, and has two harbours, and a temple of Apollo Smintheus, as the poet testifies;

Smintheus, thou that reignest over Tenedos.¹

Il. i. 38. There are several small islands around it, and two in particular, called Calydne,² situated in the course of the voyage to Lectum. There are some writers who call Tenedos Calydna, and others Leucophrys.³ There are other small islands around it besides these. They lay near the scene of the fable about Tennes, from whom the island has its name, and of the story of Cycnus, a Thracian by descent, and father, according to some writers, of Tennes, and king of Colonae.

Geography. Strabo. Hans Claude Hamilton (Translator), William Falconer (Translator). London. 1854-1857.

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

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Γεωγραφικά Perseus (Strabo. Strabonis Geographica, Vols. 1-3. Meineke, August, editor. Leipzig: Teubner. 1877.) — 13.1.46 focus

[46] ἔστι δὴ μετὰ τὴν Σιγειάδα ἄκραν καὶ τὸ Ἀχίλλειον ἡ Τενεδίων περαία τὸ Ἀχαίιον καὶ αὐτὴ ἡ Τένεδος, οὐ πλείους τῶν τετταράκοντα σταδίων διέχουσα τῆς ἠπείρου· ἔχει δὲ τὴν περίμετρον ὅσον ὀγδοήκοντα σταδίων καὶ πόλιν Αἰολίδα καὶ λιμένας δύο καὶ ἱερὸν τοῦ Σμινθέως Ἀπόλλωνος, καθάπερ καὶ ὁ ποιητὴς μαρτυρεῖ

Τενέδοιό τε ἶφι ἀνάσσεις,

Σμινθεῦ.

¹ περίκειται δʼ αὐτῇ νησία πλείω, καὶ δὴ καὶ δύο ἃ καλοῦσι Καλύδνας, κειμένας κατὰ τὸν ἐπὶ Λεκτὸν πλοῦν· καὶ αὐτὴν δὲ τὴν Τένεδον Κάλυδναν τινὲς εἶπον, ἄλλοι δὲ Λεύκοφρυν. μυθεύουσι δʼ ἐν αὐτῇ τὰ περὶ τὸν Τέννη ἀφʼ οὗ καὶ τοὔνομα τῇ νήσῳ, καὶ τὰ περὶ τὸν Κύκνον, Θρᾷκα τὸ γένος, πατέρα δʼ, ὥς τινες, τοῦ Τέννου, βασιλέα δὲ Κολωνῶν.

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Geography (Books 6-14) Perseus (Strabo. The Geography of Strabo, Vols. 3-6. Jones, Horace Leonard, translator. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd., 1924-1929 (printing).) — 13.1.46 focus

[46] After the Sigeian Promontory and the Achilleium one comes to the Achaeïum, the part of the mainland that belongs to the Tenedians;¹ and to Tenedos itself, which is not more than forty stadia distant from the mainland. It is about eighty stadia in circumference, and has an Aeolian city and two harbors and a temple of Sminthian Apollo, as the poet testifies:

And dost rule mightily over Tenedos, O Sminthian.

²Round it lie several small islands, in particular two, which are called the Calydnae and are situated on the voyage to Lectum. And some give the name Calydna to Tenedos itself, while others call it Leucophrys. In it is laid the scene of the myth of Tennes,³ after whom the island was named, as also that of Cycnus, a Thracian by birth and, according to some, father of Tennes and king of Colonae.⁴

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Geography

1. Il. i. 38.

2. There are no islands to the south of Tenedos,—that is, between Tenedos and Cape Lectum (Baba). The state of the text might induce us to suppose that, instead of Lectum, Strabo wrote Sigeum. Then the Calydne islands would answer to the Mauro islands or to the isles des Lapins.— Gossellin.

3. Called also Lyrnessa and Phoenice. The first of these names is the sane as that of one of the 12 towns on the continent sacked by Achilles. The name Phoenice was given to it probably by a Phoenician colony. Leucolphrys, (white brows,) from the colour of the coast.

Strabo Geography 13.1.46

Hans Claude Hamilton (Translator), William Falconer (Translator)

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