τούτους οὖν οἶμαι λέγειν τὸν ποιητὴν Ἁλιζώνους ἐν τῷ μετὰ τοὺς Παφλαγόνας καταλόγῳ αὐτὰρ Ἁλιζώνων Ὀδίος καὶ Ἐπίστροφος ἦρχον / τηλόθεν ἐξ Ἀλύβης, ὅθεν ἀργύρου ἐστὶ γενέθλη. / ἤτοι τῆς γραφῆς μετατεθείσης ἀπὸ τοῦ τηλόθεν ἐκ Χαλύβης, ἢ τῶν ἀνθρώπων πρότερον Ἀλύβων λεγομένων ἀντὶ Χαλύβων· οὐ γὰρ νῦν μὲν δυνατὸν γέγονεν ἐκ Χαλύβων Χαλδαίους λεχθῆναι, πρότερον δʼ οὐκ ἐνῆν ἀντὶ Ἀλύβων Χάλυβας, καὶ ταῦτα τῶν ὀνομάτων μεταπτώσεις πολλὰς δεχομένων καὶ μάλιστα ἐν τοῖς βαρβάροις· Σίντιες γὰρ ἐκαλοῦντό τινες τῶν Θρᾳκῶν, εἶτα Σιντοί, εἶτα Σάιοι, παρʼ οἷς φησιν Ἀρχίλοχος τὴν ἀσπίδα ῥῖψαι ἀσπίδα μὲν Σαΐων τις ἀνείλετο, τὴν παρὰ θάμνῳ / ἔντος ἀμώμητον κάλλιπον οὐκ ἐθέλων. / οἱ δʼ αὐτοὶ οὗτοι Σαπαῖοι νῦν ὀνομάζονται· πάντες γὰρ οὗτοι περὶ Ἄβδηρα τὴν οἴκησιν εἶχον καὶ τὰς περὶ Λῆμνον νήσους· ὁμοίως δὲ καὶ Βρῦγοι καὶ Βρύγες καὶ Φρύγες οἱ αὐτοί, καὶ Μυσοὶ καὶ Μαίονες καὶ Μῄονες· οὐ χρεία δὲ πλεονάζειν. ὑπονοεῖ δὲ καὶ ὁ Σκήψιος τὴν τοῦ ὀνόματος μετάπτωσιν ἐξ Ἀλύβων εἰς Χάλυβας, τὰ δʼ ἑξῆς καὶ τὰ συνῳδὰ οὐ νοῶν, καὶ μάλιστα ἐκ τίνος Ἁλιζώνους εἴρηκε τοὺς Χάλυβας, ἀποδοκιμάζει τὴν δόξαν· ἡμεῖς δʼ ἀντιπαραθέντες τῇ ἡμετέρᾳ τὴν ἐκείνου καὶ τὰς τῶν ἄλλων ὑπολήψεις σκοπῶμεν.
These I suppose are the people who are called by Homer Halizoni, who in his Catalogue follow the Paphlagonians. But Odius and Epistrophus led the Halizoni / Far from Alybe, where there are silver mines; / whether the writing was changed from far from Chalybe, or whether the people were formerly called Alybes instead of Chalybes. We cannot at present say that it is possible that Chaldaei should be read for Chalybes, but it cannot be maintained that formerly Chalybes could not be read for Alybes, especially when we know that names are subject to many changes, more especially among barbarians. For example, a tribe of Thracians were called Sinties, then Sinti, then Saii, in whose country Archilochus is said to have thrown away his shield: one of the Saii exults in having a shield, which, without blame, I involuntarily left behind in a thicket. This same people have now the name of Sapaei. For all these people were settled about Abdera, they also held Lemnos and the islands about Lemnos. Thus also Brygi, Briges, and Phryges are the same people; and Mysi, Maeones, and Meones are the same people. But it is unnecessary to multiply instances of this kind.
The Scepsian (Demetrius) throws some doubt on the alteration of the name from Alybes to Chalybes, but not understanding what follows, nor what accords with it, nor, in particular, why the poet calls the Chalybes Alizoni, he rejects the opinion that there has been an alteration of name. In comparing his opinion with my own I shall consider also the hypotheses entertained by others.
οἱ μὲν μεταγράφουσιν Ἀλαζώνων οἱ δʼ Ἀμαζώνων ποιοῦντες, τὸ δʼ ἐξ Ἀλύβης ἐξ Ἀλόπης ἢ ἐξ Ἀλόβης, τοὺς μὲν Σκύθας Ἀλαζῶνας φάσκοντες ὑπὲρ τὸν Βορυσθένη καὶ Καλλιπίδας καὶ ἄλλα ὀνόματα, ἅπερ Ἑλλάνικός τε καὶ Ἡρόδοτος καὶ Εὔδοξος κατεφλυάρησαν ἡμῶν, τοὺς δʼ Ἀμαζῶνας μεταξὺ Μυσίας καὶ Καρίας καὶ Λυδίας, καθάπερ Ἔφορος νομίζει, πλησίον Κύμης τῆς πατρίδος αὐτοῦ· καὶ τοῦτο μὲν ἔχεταί τινος λόγου τυχὸν ἴσως· εἴη γὰρ ἂν λέγων τὴν ὑπὸ τῶν Αἰολέων καὶ Ἰώνων οἰκισθεῖσαν ὕστερον, πρότερον δʼ ὑπὸ Ἀμαζόνων, καὶ ἐπωνύμους πόλεις τινὰς εἶναί φασι· καὶ γὰρ Ἔφεσον καὶ Σμύρναν καὶ Κύμην καὶ Μύριναν. ἡ δὲ Ἀλύβη ἢ ὥς τινες Ἀλόπη ἢ Ἀλόβη πῶς ἂν ἐν τοῖς τόποις τούτοις ἐξητάζετο; πῶς δὲ τηλόθεν; πῶς δʼ ἡ τοῦ ἀργύρου γενέθλη;
Some persons alter the word to Alazones, others to Amazons, and Alybe to Alope, or Alobe, calling the Scythians above the Borysthenes Alazones and Callipidae, and by other names, about which Hellanicus, Herodotus, and Eudoxus have talked very absurdly; some say that the Amazons were situated between Mysia, Caria, and Lydia near Cyme, which is the opinion also of Ephorus, who was a native of the latter place. And this opinion may not be unreasonable, for he may mean the country which in later times was inhabited by the Aeolians and Ionians, but formerly by Amazons. There are some cities, it is said, which have their names from the Amazons; as Ephesus, Smyrna, Cyme, and Myrina. But would any one think of inquiring in these places after Alybe, or, according to some writers, Alope, or Alobe; what would be the meaning of from afar, or where is the silver mine?
ταῦτα μὲν ἀπολύεται τῇ μεταγραφῇ· γράφει γὰρ οὕτως αὐτὰρ Ἀμαζώνων Ὀδίος καὶ Ἐπίστροφος ἦρχον, / ἐλθόντʼ ἐξ Ἀλόπης, ὅ θʼ Ἀμαζονίδων γένος ἐστί. / ταῦτα δʼ ἀπολυσάμενος εἰς ἄλλο ἐμπέπτωκε πλάσμα· οὐδαμοῦ γὰρ ἐνθάδε εὑρίσκεται Ἀλόπη· καὶ ἡ μεταγραφὴ δὲ παρὰ τὴν τῶν ἀντιγράφων τῶν ἀρχαίων πίστιν καινοτομουμένη ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον σχεδιασμῷ ἔοικεν. ὁ δὲ Σκήψιος οὔτε τὴν τούτου δόξαν ἔοικεν ἀποδεξάμενος οὔτε τῶν περὶ τὴν Παλλήνην τοὺς Ἁλιζώνους ὑπολαβόντων, ὧν ἐμνήσθημεν ἐν τοῖς Μακεδονικοῖς. ὁμοίως διαπορεῖ καὶ πῶς ἐκ τῶν ὑπὲρ τὸν Βορυσθένην νομάδων ἀφῖχθαι συμμαχίαν τοῖς Τρωσί τις νομίσειεν, ἐπαινεῖ δὲ μάλιστα τὴν Ἑκαταίου τοῦ Μιλησίου καὶ Μενεκράτους τοῦ Ἐλαΐτου τῶν Ξενοκράτους γνωρίμων ἀνδρὸς δόξαν καὶ τὴν Παλαιφάτου, ὧν ὁ μὲν ἐν γῆς περιόδῳ φησίν ἐπὶ δʼ Ἀλαζίᾳ πόλι ποταμὸς Ὀδρύσης ῥέων διὰ Μυγδονίης πεδίου ἀπὸ δύσιος ἐκ τῆς λίμνης τῆς Δασκυλίτιδος ἐς Ῥύνδακον ἐσβάλλει. ἔρημον δὲ εἶναι νῦν τὴν Ἀλαζίαν λέγει, κώμας δὲ πολλὰς τῶν Ἀλαζώνων οἰκεῖσθαι, διʼ ὧν Ὀδρύσης ῥεῖ, ἐν δὲ ταύταις τὸν Ἀπόλλωνα τιμᾶσθαι διαφερόντως, καὶ μάλιστα κατὰ τὴν ἐφορίαν τῶν Κυζικηνῶν. ὁ δὲ Μενεκράτης ἐν τῇ Ἑλλησποντιακῇ περιόδῳ ὑπερκεῖσθαι λέγει τῶν περὶ τὴν Μύρλειαν τόπων ὀρεινὴν συνεχῆ, ἣν κατῴκει τὸ τῶν Ἁλιζώνων ἔθνος· δεῖ δέ, φησί, γράφειν ἐν τοῖς δύο λάβδα, τὸν δὲ ποιητὴν ἐν τῷ ἑνὶ γράφειν διὰ τὸ μέτρον. ὁ δὲ Παλαίφατός φησιν ἐξ Ἀλαζώνων τῶν ἐν τῇ Ἀλόπῃ οἰκούντων, νῦν δὲ Ζελείᾳ, τὸν Ὀδίον καὶ τὸν Ἐπίστροφον στρατεῦσαι. τί οὖν ἄξιον ἐπαινεῖν τὰς τούτων δόξας; χωρὶς γὰρ τοῦ τὴν ἀρχαίαν γραφὴν καὶ τούτους κινεῖν οὔτε τὰ ἀργυρεῖα δεικνύουσιν, οὔτε ποῦ τῆς Μυρλεάτιδος Ἀλόπη ἐστίν, οὔτε πῶς οἱ ἐνθένδε ἀφιγμένοι εἰς Ἴλιον τηλόθεν ἦσαν, εἰ καὶ δοθείη Ἀλόπην τινὰ γεγονέναι ἢ Ἀλαζίαν· πολὺ γὰρ δὴ ταῦτα ἐγγυτέρω ἐστὶ τῇ Τρῳάδι ἢ τὰ περὶ Ἔφεσον. ἀλλʼ ὅμως τοὺς περὶ Πύγελα λέγοντας τοὺς Ἀμαζῶνας μεταξὺ Ἐφέσου καὶ Μαγνησίας καὶ Πριήνης φλυαρεῖν φησὶν ὁ Δημήτριος· τὸ γὰρ τηλόθεν οὐκ ἐφαρμόττειν τῷ τόπῳ· πόσῳ οὖν μᾶλλον οὐκ ἐφαρμόττει τῷ περὶ Μυσίαν καὶ Τευθρανίαν;
These objections he solves by an alteration in the text, for he writes the verses in this manner, But Odius and Epistrophus led the Amazons, / Who came from Alope, whence the tribe of the Amazonides. / But by this solution he has invented another fiction. For Alope is nowhere to be found in that situation, and the alteration in the text, itself a great change, and contrary to the authority of ancient copies, looks like an adaptation formed for the occasion.
The Scepsian (Demetrius) does not adopt the opinion of Ephorus, nor does he agree with those who suppose them to be the Halizoni about Pallene, whom we mentioned in the description of Macedonia. He is at a loss also to understand how any one could suppose that auxiliaries could come to the Trojans from the Nomades situated above the Borysthenes. He much approves of the opinion of Hecateus the Milesian, and of Menecrates of Elea, disciples of Xenocrates, and that of Palaephatus. The first of these says in his work entitled the Circuit of the Earth, near the city Alazia is the river Odrysses, which after flowing through the plain of Mygdonia from the west, out of the lake Dascylitis, empties itself into the Rhyndacus. He further relates that Alazia is now deserted, but that many villages of the Alazones through which the Odrysses flows are inhabited. In these villages Apollo is worsihpped with peculiar honours, and especially on the confines of the Cyziceni.
Menecrates, in his work the Circuit of the Hellespont, says that above the places near Myrleia there is a continuous mountain tract occupied by the nation of the Halizoni. The name, he says, ought to be written with two l’s, Hallizoni, but the poet uses one only on account of the metre.
Palaephatus says that Odius and Epistrophus levied their army from among the Amazons then living in Alope, but at present in Zeleia.
Do the opinions of these persons deserve approbation? For besides their alteration of the ancient text, and the position of this people, they neither point out the silver mines, nor where in Myrleatis Alope is situated, nor how they, who came thence to Troy, came from afar, although it should be granted that there existed an Alope, or an Alazia. For these are much nearer Troy than the places about Ephesus. Those, however, are triflers, in the opinion of Demetrius, who speak of the existence of Amazons near Pygela, between Ephesus, Magnesia, and Priene, for the words from afar do not agree with the spot; much less will they agree with a situation about Mysia, and Teuthrania.
νὴ Δία, ἀλλά φησι δεῖν ἔνια καὶ ἀκύρως προστιθέμενα δέχεσθαι, ὡς καὶ τῆλʼ ἐξ Ἀσκανίης / καὶ Ἀρναῖος δʼ ὄνομʼ ἔσκε, τὸ γὰρ θέτο πότνια μήτηρ, / καὶ εἵλετο δὲ κληῖδʼ εὐκαμπέα χειρὶ παχείῃ Πηνελόπη. / δεδόσθω δὴ καὶ τοῦτο· ἀλλʼ ἐκεῖνα οὐ δοτέα, οἷς προσέχων ὁ Δημήτριος οὐδὲ τοῖς ὑπολαβοῦσι δεῖν ἀκούειν τηλόθεν ἐκ Χαλύβης πιθανῶς ἀντείρηκε. συγχωρήσας γὰρ ὅτι, εἰ καὶ μὴ ἔστι νῦν ἐν τοῖς Χάλυψι τὰ ἀργυρεῖα, ὑπάρξαι γε ἐνεδέχετο, ἐκεῖνό γε οὐ συγχωρεῖ ὅτι καὶ ἔνδοξα ἦν καὶ ἄξια μνήμης, καθάπερ τὰ σιδηρεῖα. τί δὲ κωλύει, φαίη τις ἄν, καὶ ἔνδοξα εἶναι, καθάπερ καὶ τὰ σιδηρεῖα; ἢ σιδήρου μὲν εὐπορία τόπον ἐπιφανῆ δύναται ποιεῖν, ἀργύρου δʼ οὔ; τί δʼ εἰ μὴ κατὰ τοὺς ἥρωας, ἀλλὰ καθʼ Ὅμηρον εἰς δόξαν ἀφῖκτο τὰ ἀργυρεῖα, ἆρα μέμψαιτό τις ἂν τὴν ἀπόφασιν τοῦ ποιητοῦ; πῶς οὖν εἰς τὸν ποιητὴν ἡ δόξα ἀφίκετο; πῶς δʼ ἡ τοῦ ἐν τῇ Τεμέσῃ χαλκοῦ τῇ Ἰταλιώτιδι; πῶς δʼ ἡ τοῦ Θηβαϊκοῦ πλούτου τοῦ κατʼ Αἴγυπτον; καίτοι διπλάσιον σχεδόν τι διέχοντα τῶν Αἰγυπτίων Θηβῶν ἢ τῶν Χαλδαίων. ἀλλʼ οὐδʼ οἷς συνηγορεῖ, τούτοις ὁμολογεῖ· τὰ γὰρ περὶ τὴν Σκῆψιν τοποθετῶν τὴν ἑαυτοῦ πατρίδα, πλησίον τῆς Σκήψεως καὶ τοῦ Αἰσήπου Νέαν κώμην καὶ Ἀργυρίαν λέγει καὶ Ἀλαζονίαν. ταῦτα μὲν οὖν εἰ καὶ ἔστι, πρὸς ταῖς πηγαῖς ἂν εἴη τοῦ Αἰσήπου. ὁ δὲ Ἑκαταῖος λέγει ἐπέκεινα τῶν ἐκβολῶν αὐτοῦ, ὅ τε Παλαίφατος πρότερον μὲν Ἀλόπην οἰκεῖν φήσας νῦν δὲ Ζέλειαν, οὐδὲν ὅμοιον λέγει τούτοις. εἰ δʼ ἄρα ὁ Μενεκράτης, καὶ οὐδʼ οὗτος τὴν Ἀλόπην ἢ Ἀλόβην ἢ ὅπως ποτὲ βούλονται γράφειν φράζει ἥτις ἐστίν, οὐδʼ αὐτὸς ὁ Δημήτριος.
This may be true, says he, but some expressions are to be understood as loosely applied, such as these, Far from Ascania, / and His name was Arnaeus, given to him by his honoured mother, / and Penelope seized the well-turned key with her firm hand. / But admitting this, the other assertions are not to be allowed to which Demetrius is disposed to attend; nor has he refuted in a convincing manner those persons who maintain that we ought to read far from Chalybe. For having conceded that, although at present there are not silver mines among the Chalybes, they might formerly have existed, he does not grant that they were far-famed, and worthy of notice, like the iron mines. But some one may say, what should prevent them from being as famous as the iron mines, or does an abundance of iron make a place celebrated, and not an abundance of silver? Again, if the silver mines had obtained celebrity in the age of Homer, but not in the heroic times can any one blame the poet’s representation? How did their fame reach him? How did the fame of the copper mines at Temesa in Italy, or of the wealth of Thebes in Egypt, reach his ears, although Egyptian Thebes was situated almost at double the distance of the Chaldaei.
But Demetrius does not altogether agree with those whose opinions he espouses. For when he is describing the neighbourhood of Scepsis his own birth-place, he mentions Enea, a village, Argyria, and Alazonia, as near Scepsis, and the Aesepus; but if these places exist at all, they must be near the sources of the Aesepus. Hecataeus places them beyond the mouths of that river. Palsaephatus, who says that the Amazons formerly occupied Alope, and at present Zeleia, does not advance anything in agreement with these statements. But if Menecrates agrees with Demetrius, neither does Menecrates say what this Alope, or Alobe, is, (or, in whatever manner they please to write the name,) nor yet does Demetrius himself.
πρὸς Ἀπολλόδωρον δὲ περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν ἐν τῷ Τρωικῷ διακόσμῳ διαλεγόμενον πολλὰ μὲν εἴρηται πρότερον, καὶ νῦν δὲ λεκτέον. οὐ γὰρ οἴεται δεῖν δέχεσθαι τοὺς Ἁλιζώνους ἐκτὸς τοῦ Ἅλυος· μηδεμίαν γὰρ συμμαχίαν ἀφῖχθαι τοῖς Τρωσὶν ἐκ τῆς περαίας τοῦ Ἅλυος. πρῶτον τοίνυν ἀπαιτήσομεν αὐτὸν τίνες εἰσὶν οἱ ἐντὸς τοῦ Ἅλυος Ἁλίζωνοι, οἱ καὶ τηλόθεν ἐξ Ἀλύβης, ὅθεν ἀργύρου ἐστὶ γενέθλη· / οὐ γὰρ ἕξει λέγειν· ἔπειτα τὴν αἰτίαν διʼ ἣν οὐ συγχωρεῖ καὶ ἐκ τῆς περαίας ἀφῖχθαί τινα συμμαχίαν· καὶ γὰρ εἰ τὰς ἄλλας ἐντὸς εἶναι τοῦ ποταμοῦ πάσας συμβαίνει πλὴν τῶν Θρᾳκῶν, μίαν γε ταύτην οὐδὲν ἐκώλυε πέραθεν ἀφῖχθαι ἐκ τῆς ἐπέκεινα τῶν Λευκοσύρων. ἢ πολεμήσοντας μὲν ἦν δυνατὸν διαβαίνειν ἐκ τῶν τόπων τούτων καὶ τῶν ἐπέκεινα, καθάπερ τὰς Ἀμαζόνας καὶ Τρῆρας καὶ Κιμμερίους φασί, συμμαχήσοντας δʼ ἀδύνατον; αἱ μὲν οὖν Ἀμαζόνες οὐ συνεμάχουν διὰ τὸ τὸν Πρίαμον πολεμῆσαι πρὸς αὐτὰς συμμαχοῦντα τοῖς Φρυξὶν ἤματι τῷ ὅτε τʼ ἦλθον Ἀμαζόνες ἀντιάνειραι / φησὶν ὁ Πρίαμος καὶ γὰρ ἐγὼν ἐπίκουρος ἐὼν μετὰ τοῖσιν ἐλέγμην. / οἱ δʼ ὁμοροῦντες αὐταῖς, οὔθʼ οὕτως ἄπωθεν ὄντες ὥστε χαλεπὴν εἶναι τὴν ἐκεῖθεν μετάπεμψιν οὔτʼ ἔχθρας ὑποκειμένης, οὐδὲν ἐκωλύοντο οἶμαι συμμαχεῖν.
With regard to Apollodorus, who mentions these places in his discourse on the array of the Trojan forces, we have said much before in reply to him, and we must now speak of him again. He is of opinion that we ought not to understand the Halizoni without the Halys, for no auxiliaries came to Troy from the country on the other side of the Halys. First, then, we will inquire of him who are the Halizoni within the Halys, and situated far from Alybe, where are silver mines? / He will not be able to reply. Next we will ask the reason why he does not admit that some auxiliaries came from the country on the other side of the Halys. For if it was the case, that all the rest were living on this side the Halys, except the Thracians, nothing prevented this one body of allies from coming from afar, from the country beyond the Leuco-Syrians? Or, was it possible for the persons immediately engaged in the war to pass over from those places, and from the country beyond them, as the Amazons, Treres, and Cimmerians, but impossible for allies to do so?
The Amazons were not allies, because Priam had fought in alliance with the Phrygians against them: at that time, says Priam, I was among their auxiliaries on that day, when the Amazons came to attack them.
The people also who were living on the borders of the country of the Amazons were not situated at so great a distance that it was difficult to send for them from thence, nor did any animosity exist, I suppose, at that time to prevent them from affording assistance.
ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ δόξαν ἔχει τοιαύτην τῶν παλαιῶν εἰπεῖν ὡς συμφωνούντων ἁπάντων μηδένας ἐκ τῆς περαίας τοῦ Ἅλυος κοινωνῆσαι τοῦ Τρωικοῦ πολέμου. πρὸς τοὐναντίον δὲ μᾶλλον εὕροι τις ἂν μαρτυρίας· Μαιάνδριος γοῦν ἐκ τῶν Λευκοσύρων φησὶ τοὺς Ἐνετοὺς ὁρμηθέντας συμμαχῆσαι τοῖς Τρωσίν, ἐκεῖθεν δὲ μετὰ τῶν Θρᾳκῶν ἀπᾶραι καὶ οἰκῆσαι περὶ τὸν τοῦ Ἀδρίου μυχόν, τοὺς δὲ μὴ μετασχόντας τῆς στρατείας Ἐνετοὺς Καππάδοκας γενέσθαι. συνηγορεῖν δʼ ἂν δόξειε τῷ λόγῳ τούτῳ, διότι πᾶσα ἡ πλησίον τοῦ Ἅλυος Καππαδοκία ὅση παρατείνει τῇ Παφλαγονίᾳ ταῖς δυσὶ χρῆται διαλέκτοις καὶ τοῖς ὀνόμασι πλεονάζει τοῖς Παφλαγονικοῖς, Βάγας καὶ Βιάσας καὶ Αἰνιάτης καὶ Ῥατώτης καὶ Ζαρδώκης καὶ Τίβιος καὶ Γάσυς καὶ Ὀλίγασυς καὶ Μάνης· ταῦτα γὰρ ἔν τε τῇ Φαζημωνίτιδι καὶ τῇ Πιμωλισίτιδι καὶ τῇ Γαζηλωνίτιδι καὶ Γαζακηνῇ καὶ ἄλλαις πλείσταις χώραις ἐπιπολάζει τὰ ὀνόματα. αὐτὸς δὲ ὁ Ἀπολλόδωρος παρατίθησι τὸ τοῦ Ζηνοδότου ὅτι γράφει ἐξ Ἐνετῆς, ὅθεν ἡμιόνων γένος ἀγροτεράων. / ταύτην δέ φησιν Ἑκαταῖον τὸν Μιλήσιον δέχεσθαι τὴν Ἀμισόν· ἡ δʼ Ἀμισὸς εἴρηται διότι τῶν Λευκοσύρων ἐστὶ καὶ ἐκτὸς τοῦ Ἅλυος.
Nor is there any foundation for the opinion, that all the ancients agree that no people from the country beyond the Halys took part in the Trojan war. Testimony may be found to the contrary. Maeandrius at least says that Heneti came from the country of the Leuco-Syrians to assist the Trojans in the war; that they set sail thence with the Thracians, and settled about the recess of the Adriatic; and that the Heneti, who had no place in the expedition, were Cappadocians. This account seems to agree with the circumstance, that the people inhabiting the whole of that part of Cappadocia near the Halys, which extends along Paphlagonia, speak two dialects, and that their language abounds with Paphlagonian names, as Bagas, Biasas, Aeniates, Rhatotes, Zardoces, Tibius, Gasys, Oligasys, and Manes. For these names are frequently to be found in the Bamonitis, the Pimolitis, the Gazaluitis, and Gazacene, and in most of the other districts. Apollodorus himself quotes the words of Homer, altered by Zenodotus; from Henete, whence comes a race of wild mules, / and says, that Hecataeus the Milesian understands Henete to mean Amisus. But we have shown that Amisus belongs to the Leuco-Syrians, and is situated beyond the Halys.
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