The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3): Literally Translated, with NotesStrabo
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The Geography of Strabo, Volume 3 (of 3): Literally Translated, with Notes
Strabo
Geography -- Early works to 1800
[214] Ernatia.
[215] Ak-su.
[216] Murtana.
[217] Tekeh.
[218] Kopru-su.
[219] Balkesu.
[220] Kislidscha-koi.
[221] Menavgat-su.
[222] Alara.
[223] Alaja, or Castel Ubaldo.
[224] Herod. vii. 91. According to this passage, therefore, the name
Pamphylians is derived from πᾶν, “all,” and φῦλον, “nation.”
[225] Alaja.
[226] Syedra probably shared with Coraresium (Alaja), a fertile plain
which here borders on the coast. But Syedra is Tzschucke’s emendation of
Arsinoë in the text.
[227] Not mentioned by any other author.
[228] Selindi.
[229] Charadran.
[230] Kara-Gedik.
[231] Inamur.
[232] Cape Kormakiti.
[233] Mesetlii.
[234] Softa-Kalessi.
[235] Mandane?
[236] Kilandria, or Gulnar.
[237] According to Pliny, Cilicia anciently commenced at the river
Melas, which Strabo has just said belongs to Pamphylia. Ptolemy fixes
upon Coracesium as the first place in Cilicia, which, according to Mela,
was separated from Pamphylia by Cape Anemurium, which was near Nagidus.
[238] Nahr-el-Asy.
[239] B. xvi. c. ii. § 33.
[240] Selefke.
[241] Cape Lissan.
[242] Gok-su.
[243] Cape Cavaliere.
[244] Eurip. Hec. 1.
[245] Its distance (40 stadia) from the Calycadnus, if correct, will
place it about Pershendi, at the north-eastern angle of the sandy plain
of the Calycadnus.
[246] Anamur.
[247] Ianartasch; but, according to Leake, it still preserves its name.
[248] A sandy plain now connects Elæussa with the coast.—_Leake._
[249] Lamas-su, of which Lamuzo-soui is an Italian corruption.
[250] Lamas.
[251] Tschirlay, or Porto Venetico.
[252] Mesetlii.
[253] Cape Zafra.
[254] What better inscription, said Aristotle, could you have for the
tomb, not a king, but of an ox? Cicero, Tusc. Quæs. iii. 35.
[255] Mesarlyk-tschai.
[256] Strabo means to say, that the coast, from the part opposite
Rhodes, runs E. in a straight line to Tarsus, and then inclines to the
S.E.; that afterwards it inclines to the S., to Gaza, and continues in a
westerly direction to the Straits of Gibraltar.
[257] The translation follows the reading proposed by Groskurd,
παχυνευροῦσι καὶ ῥοïζομένοις καὶ ποδαγριζομένοις, who quotes Vitruv.
viii. 3, and Pliny xxxi. 8.
[258] Kramer does not approve of the corrections proposed in this
passage by Groskurd. The translation follows the proposed emendation of
Falconer, which Kramer considers the least objectionable.
[259] Augustus.
[260] Groskurd, with some probability, supposes the name of Achilles to
be here omitted.
[261] Il. iii. 235.
[262] Dschehan-tschai.
[263] Chun.
[264] Ajas.
[265] Demir-Kapu.
[266] The ridge extending N. E., the parts of which bear various names,
Missis, Durdan-dagh, &c.
[267] Deli-tschai.
[268] Arsus.
[269] Iskenderun.
[270] Its name under the Byzantine empire was corrupted to Mampsysta, or
Mamista; of which names the modern Mensis appears to be a further
corruption.—_Leake._
[271] The passage is defended by the fortress of Merkes.
[272] Suveidijeh.
[273] Nahr-el-Asy.
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