[274] Groskurd is desirous of reading Tarsus for Issus. See above, c. v. § 11. But Strabo is here considering the two opinions held respecting the isthmus. [275] Scymnus of Chios counts fifteen nations who occupied this peninsula, namely, three Greek and twelve barbarian. The latter were Cilicians, Lycians, Carians, Maryandini, Paphlagonians, Pamphylians, Chalybes, Cappadocians, Pisidians, Lydians, Mysians, and Phrygians. In this list the Bithynians, Trojans, and Milyæ are not mentioned; but in it are found the Cappadocians and Lydians—two nations whom, according to Strabo, Ephorus has not mentioned. This discrepancy is the more remarkable as Scymnus must have taken the list from Ephorus himself. [276] Od. xi. 122. [277] Apollodorus, like Scymnus, had probably found the Lydians mentioned in the list of Ephorus, as also the Cappadocians. [278] Kramer says that he is unable to decide how this corrupt passage should be restored. The translation follows the conjectures of Coray. [279] Il. ii. 862. [280] Il. iii. 187. [281] Isnik. [282] Euphorion acquired celebrity as a voluminous writer. Vossius, i. 16, gives a catalogue of his works. According to Suidas, he was born in Chalcis, in Negropont, at the time Pyrrhus, king of Epirus, was defeated by the Romans. He acquired a considerable fortune by his writings and by his connexion with persons of eminent rank. He was invited to the court of Antiochus the Great, king of Syria, who intrusted him with the care of his library. According to Sallust, (Life of Tiberius,) he was one of the poets whom Tiberius took as his model in writing Greek verse. Fecit et Græca poemata, imitatus Euphorionem, et Rhianum et Parthenium. [283] The Clides, off Cape Andrea. [284] Cape Arnauti. [285] Dschehan-Tschai. [286] Kormakiti. [287] Lapito. [288] Near Artemisi. [289] To the north of Tamagousta. [290] Carpas. [291] Lissan el Cape, in Cilicia. [292] Near the present Larnaka. [293] Limasol. [294] Cape Gata. [295] Cape Grego. [296] Piscopia. [297] Capo Bianco. [298] Bisur. [299] Point Zephyro. [300] Jeroskipo. [301] Solea. [302] The Indian Ocean. [303] Behul or Jelum. [304] Beas. [305] The island Cos, or Stanco, one of the earlier names of which was Meropis. [306] ἢ κατ’ ἄλλους for καὶ ἄλλου.—_Groskurd._ [307] See ch. i. § 73. [308] Mekran.