Strabo Geography 14.5.3

[3] After Coracesium, one comes to Arsinoe, ¹ a city; then to Hamaxia, a settlement on a hill, with a harbor, where ship-building timber is brought down. Most of this timber is cedar; and it appears that this region beyond others abounds in cedar-wood for ships; and it was on this account that Antony assigned this region to Cleopatra, since it was suited to the building of her fleets. Then one comes to Laertes, a stronghold on a breast-shaped hill, with a mooring-place. Then to Selinus, a city and river. Then to Cragus, a rock which is precipitous all round and near the sea. Then to Charadrus, a fortress, which also has a mooring-place (above it lies Mt. Andriclus); and the coast alongside it, called Platanistes, is rugged. Then to Anemurium, a promontory, where the mainland approaches closest to Cyprus, in the direction of the promontory of Crommyus, ² the passage across being three hundred and fifty stadia. Now the coasting-voyage along Cilicia from the borders of Pamphylia to Anemurium is eight hundred and twenty stadia, whereas the rest, as far as Soli, is about five hundred stadia. On this latter one comes to Nagidus, the first city after Anemurium; then to Arsinoe, which has a landing-place; then to a place called Melania, ³ and to Celenderis, a city with a harbor. Some writers, among whom is Artemidorus, make Celenderis, not Coracesium, the beginning of Cilicia. And he says that the distance from the Pelusian mouth ⁴ to Orthosia is three thousand nine hundred stadia; to the Orontes River, one thousand one hundred and thirty; to the Gates ⁵ next thereafter, five hundred and twenty-five; and to the borders ⁶ of the Cilicians, one thousand two hundred and sixty. ⁷

[3] Next to the Coracesium is the city Syedra; ¹ then Hamaxia, ² a small town upon a hill, with a harbour, to which is brought down timber for ship-building; the greatest part of it consists of cedar. This country seems to produce this tree in abundance. It was on this account that Antony assigned it to Cleopatra, as being capable of furnishing materials for the construction of her fleet.

Then follows Laertes a fortress, situated upon the crest of a hill, of a pap-like form; a port belongs to it; next, the city Selinus, ³ then Cragus, a precipitous rock on the sea-coast; then Charadrus ⁴ a fortress, which has a port (above it is the mountain Andriclus ⁵ ) and a rocky shore, called Platanistus, next Anemurium ⁶ a promontory, where the continent approaches nearest to Cyprus, towards the promontory Crommyum, ⁷ the passage across being 350 stadia.

From the boundaries of Pamphylia to Anemurium, the voyage along the Cilician coast is 820 stadia; the remainder of it as far as Soli ⁸ is about 500 stadia ( 1500?). On this coast, after Anemurium, the first city is Nagidus, then Arsinoë, ⁹ with a small port; then a place called Melania, ¹⁰ and Celenderis ¹¹ a city, with a harbour.

Some writers, ¹² among whom is Artemidorus, consider this place as the commencement of Cilicia, and not Coracesium. He says, that from the Pelusiac mouth to Orthosia are 3900 stadia, and to the river Orontes ¹³ 1130 stadia; then to the gates of Cilicia 525 stadia, and to the borders of Cilicia 1260 stadia. ¹⁴