Σολύμους δʼ εἶναί φασι τοὺς Καβαλεῖς· τῆς γοῦν Τερμησσέων ἄκρας ὁ ὑπερκείμενος λόφος καλεῖται Σόλυμος, καὶ αὐτοὶ δὲ οἱ Τερμησσεῖς Σόλυμοι καλοῦνται. πλησίον δʼ ἐστὶ καὶ ὁ Βελλεροφόντου χάραξ καὶ ὁ Πεισάνδρου τάφος τοῦ υἱοῦ πεσόντος ἐν τῇ πρὸς Σολύμους μάχῃ. ταῦτα δὲ καὶ τοῖς ὑπὸ τοῦ ποιητοῦ λεγομένοις ὁμολογεῖται· περὶ μὲν γὰρ τοῦ Βελλεροφόντου φησὶν οὕτως δεύτερον αὖ Σολύμοισι μαχέσσατο κυδαλίμοισι. / περὶ δὲ τοῦ παιδὸς αὐτοῦ Πείσανδρον δέ οἱ υἱὸν Ἄρης ἆτος πολέμοιο / μαρνάμενον Σολύμοισι κατέκτανεν. / ἡ δὲ Τερμησσός ἐστι Πισιδικὴ πόλις ἡ μάλιστα καὶ ἔγγιστα ὑπερκειμένη τῆς Κιβύρας.
The Cabaleis, it is said, were Solymi. The hill situated above the Termessian fortress is called Solymus, and the Termessians themselves Solymi. Near these places is the rampart of Bellerophon and the sepulchre of Peisander his son, who fell in the battle against the Solymi. This account agrees with the words of the poet. Of Bellerophon he speaks thus, he fought a second time with the brave Solymi; / and of his son, Mars, unsated with war, killed Peisander his son fighting with the Solymi. / Termessus is a Pisidian city situated very near and immediately above Cibyra.
λέγονται δὲ ἀπόγονοι Λυδῶν οἱ Κιβυρᾶται τῶν κατασχόντων τὴν Καβαλίδα· ὕστερον δὲ Πισιδῶν τῶν ὁμόρων ἐποικησάντων καὶ μετακτισάντων εἰς ἕτερον τόπον εὐερκέστατον ἐν κύκλῳ σταδίων περὶ ἑκατόν. ηὐξήθη δὲ διὰ τὴν εὐνομίαν, καὶ αἱ κῶμαι παρεξέτειναν ἀπὸ Πισιδίας καὶ τῆς ὁμόρου Μιλυάδος ἕως Λυκίας καὶ τῆς Ῥοδίων περαίας· προσγενομένων δὲ τριῶν πόλεων ὁμόρων, Βουβῶνος Βαλβούρων Οἰνοάνδων, τετράπολις τὸ σύστημα ἐκλήθη, μίαν ἑκάστης ψῆφον ἐχούσης, δύο δὲ τῆς Κιβύρας· ἔστελλε γὰρ αὕτη πεζῶν μὲν τρεῖς μυριάδας ἱππέας δὲ δισχιλίους· ἐτυραννεῖτο δʼ ἀεί, σωφρόνως δʼ ὅμως· ἐπὶ Μοαγέτου δʼ ἡ τυραννὶς τέλος ἔσχε, καταλύσαντος αὐτὴν Μουρηνᾶ καὶ Λυκίοις προσορίσαντος τὰ Βάλβουρα καὶ τὴν Βουβῶνα· οὐδὲν δʼ ἧττον ἐν ταῖς μεγίσταις ἐξετάζεται διοικήσεσι τῆς Ἀσίας ἡ Κιβυρατική. τέτταρσι δὲ γλώτταις ἐχρῶντο οἱ Κιβυρᾶται, τῇ Πισιδικῇ τῇ Σολύμων τῇ Ἑλληνίδι τῇ Λυδῶν· […] δὲ οὐδʼ ἴχνος ἐστὶν ἐν Λυδίᾳ. ἴδιον δʼ ἐστὶν ἐν Κιβύρᾳ τὸ τὸν σίδηρον τορεύεσθαι ῥᾳδίως. Μιλύα δʼ ἐστὶν ἡ ἀπὸ τῶν κατὰ Τερμησσὸν στενῶν καὶ τῆς εἰς τὸ ἐντὸς τοῦ Ταύρου ὑπερθέσεως διʼ αὐτῶν ἐπὶ Ἴσινδα παρατείνουσα ὀρεινὴ μέχρι Σαγαλασσοῦ καὶ τῆς Ἀπαμέων χώρας.
The Cibyratae are said to be descendants of the Lydians who occupied the territory Cabalis. The city was afterwards in the possession of the Pisidians, a bordering nation, who occupied it, and transferred it to another place, very strongly fortified, the circuit of which was about 100 stadia. It flourished in consequence of the excellence of its laws. The villages belonging to it extended from Pisidia, and the bordering territory Milyas, as far as Lycia and the country opposite to Rhodes. Upon the union of the three bordering cities, Bubon, Balbura, and Oenoanda, the confederation was called Tetrapolis; each city had one vote, except Cibyra, which had two, for it could equip 30,000 foot soldiers and 2000 horse. It was always governed by tyrants, but they ruled with moderation. The tyrannical government terminated in the time of Moagetes. It was overthrown by Murena, who annexed Balbura and Bubon to the Lycians. Nevertheless the Cibyratic district is reckoned among the largest jurisdictions in Asia.
The Cibyratae used four languages, the Pisidic, that of the Solymi, the Greek, and the Lydian, but of the latter no traces are now to be found in Lydia.
At Cibyra there is practised the peculiar art of carving with ease ornamental work in iron.
Milya is the mountain-range extending from the defiles near Termessus, and the passage through them to the parts within the Taurus towards Isinda, as far as Sagalassus and the country of Apameia.
Cite This Text