Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, John C. Rolfe (Translator), 22.8.5

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[5] Then swelling on both sides into the form of a half-circle and giving a view of widely separated lands, it laves with the spreading waters of the Propontis,¹ on the eastern side Cyzicus² and Dindyma,³ where there is a sacred shrine of the Great Mother,⁴ and Apamia and Cius, where Hylas was pursued and carried off by the nymph,⁵ and Astacus, in a later age called after King Nicomedes.⁶ Where it turns to the westward it beats upon the Cherronesus and Aegospotami, where Anaxagoras predicted a rain of stones from heaven,⁷ and Lysimachia and the city which Hercules founded and dedicated to the name of his comrade Perinthus;

Res Gestae. Ammianus Marcellinus. John C. Rolfe (Translator). Cambridge, MA. 1935-1940.

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Res Gestae Perseus (Ammianus Marcellinus. Ammianus Marcellinus, with an English translation, Vols. I-III. Rolfe, John C., editor. Cambridge, MA; London: Harvard University Press; W. Heinemann, 1935-1940 (printing).) — 22.8.5 focus

[5] Unde semiorbe curvescens altrinsecus, lataque aperiens terrarum divortia, circumfluis spatiis Propontidos respergit ex eoo latere Cyzicum, et Dindyma (religiosa Matris Magnae delubra), et Apamiam Ciumque, ubi Hylam et Astacum¹ secuto tempore Nicomediam a rege cognominatam, qua in occasum procedit Cherronesum pulsat et Aegospotamus, in quo loco lapides casuros ex caelo praedixit Anaxagoras, et Lysimachiam et civitatem, quam Hercules conditam Perinthi comitis sui memoriae dedicavit.

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1. The Sea of Marmora.

2. On the southern side of the Propontis.

3. Named from Mt. Dindymus, in Phrygia, near Pessinus. There is another Mt. Dindymus, five miles north of Cyzicus, and, apparently, a town or village called Dindyma.

4. Cybele.

5. There is evidently a lacuna here. Lindenbrog suggested

ubi Hylam insecuta rapuit nympha.

Others refer Hyla to the river near Cius.

6. Nicomedia.

7. Cf. Pliny, N.H. ii. 149; Strabo, vii. 55 (iii. 377, L.C.L.). It was also famous as the scene of the last battle of the Peloponnesian war.

Ammianus Marcellinus Res Gestae 22.8.5

John C. Rolfe (Translator)

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