b. Ἴστρον μιν καλέ〈οντες〉:
τὸν Ἴστρον φησὶν ἐκ τῶν Ὑπερβορέων καταφέρεσθαι καὶ τῶν Ῥιπαίων ὀρῶν· γενόμενον δὲ μεταξὺ Σκυθῶν καὶ Θρακῶν σχίζεσθαι, καὶ τὸ μὲν εἰς τὴν καθ’ ἡμᾶς θάλασσαν ἐκβάλλειν ῥεῖθρον, τὸ δὲ εἰς τὴν Ποντικὴν θάλασσαν ἐκτίπτειν [τὸ δὲ εἰς τὸν Ἀδριατικὸν κόλπον]. οὕτω δὲ εἶπεν ἀκολουθῶν Αἰσχύλῳ, ἐν Λυομένῳ Προμηθεῖ (fg 197 N.²) λέγοντι τοῦτο. Ῥίπαια δὲ ὄρη πρὸς ταῖς ἀνατολαῖς, ὡς Καλλίμαχος (fg 215 Schn.)·
‘Ῥιπαίου πέμπουσιν ἀπ’ οὔρεος, ἦχι μάλιστα.’
Ἐρατοσθένης δὲ ἐν γ' Γεωγραφικῶν (fg III B 99 Berger) ἐξ ἐρήμων τόπων ῥεῖν, περιβάλλειν δὲ νῆσον Πεύκην. Σκύμνος δὲ ἐν τῇ [ι]ς' Περὶ Εὐρώπης αὐτὸ μόνον φησίν, ἀπὸ ἐρήμων φέρεσθαι τὸν Ἴστρον.
‘Ῥιπαίου πέμπουσιν ἀπ’ οὔρεος, ἦχι μάλιστα.’
Ἐρατοσθένης δὲ ἐν γ' Γεωγραφικῶν (fg III B 99 Berger) ἐξ ἐρήμων τόπων ῥεῖν, περιβάλλειν δὲ νῆσον Πεύκην. Σκύμνος δὲ ἐν τῇ [ι]ς' Περὶ Εὐρώπης αὐτὸ μόνον φησίν, ἀπὸ ἐρήμων φέρεσθαι τὸν Ἴστρον.
b. Ἴστρον μιν καλέ〈οντες〉: He says that the Ister flows down from the Hyperboreans and the Rhipaean mountains; and when it comes between the Scythians and Thracians it divides, and one stream flows into our sea, while the other falls into the Pontic sea [and the other into the Adriatic gulf]. He said this following Aeschylus, who says this in the Prometheus Unbound (fg 197 N.²). The Rhipaean mountains are toward the east, as Callimachus (fg 215 Schn.) says: 'from the Rhipaean mountain they send, where especially...' Eratosthenes in the third book of his Geography (fg III B 99 Berger) says that it flows from desert places and encircles the island of Peuce. Scymnus in the sixteenth book of his On Europe says only this, that the Ister is borne from desert places.
οὐδεὶς δὲ ἱστορεῖ διὰ τούτου τοὺς Ἀργοναύτας εἰσπεπλευκέναι εἰς τὴν ἡμετέραν θάλασσαν ἔξω Τιμαγήτου (fg 1 M. IV 519), ᾧ ἠκολούθησεν Ἀπολλώνιος. ὁ μὲν γὰρ Σκύμνος αὐτοὺς διὰ Τανάιδος πεπλευκέναι ἐπὶ τὴν μεγάλην θάλασσαν, ἐκεῖθεν δὲ εἰς τὴν ἡμετέραν θάλασσαν ἐληλυθέναι. καὶ παρεκβολεύεται, ὡς ἄρα ἐλθόντες ἐπὶ τὴν ἤπειρον οἱ Ἀργοναῦται ἐπὶ στρωτήρων ἐκόμισαν τὴν Ἀργώ, μέχρις οὗ ἐπὶ θάλασσαν
No one records that the Argonauts sailed through this river into our sea except Timagetus (fg 1 M. IV 519), whom Apollonius followed. For Scymnus says that they sailed through the Tanais to the great sea, and from there came to our sea. And he adds the digression that the Argonauts, having come to the mainland, carried the Argo on rollers until they reached the sea.
Scholia on Book 1 of Apollonius' Argonautica. . ed. Carolus Wendel. . .
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