κάμψαντι δὲ τὸ Λεκτὸν ἐλλογιμώταται πόλεις τῶν Αἰολέων καὶ ὁ Ἀδραμυττηνὸς κόλπος ἐκδέχεται, ἐν ᾧ τοὺς πλείους τῶν Λελέγων κατοικίζων ὁ ποιητὴς φαίνεται καὶ τοὺς Κίλικας διττοὺς ὄντας. ἐνταῦθα δὲ καὶ ὁ τῶν Μιτυληναίων ἐστὶν αἰγιαλός, κώμας τινὰς ἔχων τῶν κατὰ τὴν ἤπειρον τῶν Μιτυληναίων. τὸν δὲ αὐτὸν κόλπον καὶ Ἰδαῖον λέγουσιν· ἡ γὰρ ἀπὸ τοῦ Λεκτοῦ ῥάχις ἀνατείνουσα πρὸς τὴν Ἴδην ὑπέρκειται τῶν πρώτων τοῦ κόλπου μερῶν, ἐν οἷς πρῶτον τοὺς Λέλεγας ἱδρυμένους ὁ ποιητὴς πεποίηκεν.
After doubling Lectum, there follow the most considerable cities of the Aeolians, the bay of Adramyttium, on which Homer seems to have placed the greater part of the Leleges, and the Cilicians, divided into two tribes. There also is the coast of the Mitylenaeans with some villages of the Mitylenaeans on the continent. The bay has the name of the Idaean bay, for the ridge extending from Lectum to Ida overhangs the commencement of the bay, where, according to the poet, the Leleges were first settled.
εἴρηται δὲ περὶ αὐτῶν καὶ πρότερον· καὶ νῦν δὲ προσληπτέον ὅτι Πήδασόν τινα λέγει πόλιν αὐτῶν ὑπὸ Ἄλτῃ τεταγμένην Ἄλτεω, ὃς Λελέγεσσι φιλοπτολέμοισιν ἀνάσσει, / Πήδασον αἰπήεσσαν ἔχων ἐπὶ Σατνιόεντι. / καὶ νῦν ὁ τόπος δείκνυται τῆς πόλεως ἔρημος. γράφουσι δέ τινες οὐκ εὖ ὑπὸ Σατνιόεντι, ὡς ὑπὸ ὄρει Σατνιόεντι κειμένης τῆς πόλεως· οὐδὲν δʼ ἐστὶν ὄρος ἐνταῦθα Σατνιόεις προσαγορευόμενον, ἀλλὰ ποταμὸς ἐφʼ ᾧ ἵδρυται ἡ πόλις· νῦν δʼ ἐστὶν ἐρήμη. ὀνομάζει δὲ τὸν ποταμὸν ὁ ποιητής· Σάτνιον οὔτασε δουρὶ / Οἰνοπίδην, ὃν ἄρα νύμφη τέκε Νηὶς ἀμύμων / οἴνοπι βουκολέοντι παρʼ ὄχθαις Σατνιόεντος / καὶ πάλιν ναῖε δὲ Σατνιόεντος ἐυρρείταο παρʼ ὄχθαις / Πήδασον αἰπεινήν. / Σατνιόεντα δʼ ὕστερον εἶπον, οἱ δὲ Σαφνιόεντα· ἔστι δὲ χείμαρρος μέγας· ἄξιον δὲ μνήμης πεποίηκεν ὀνομάζων ὁ ποιητὴς αὐτόν. οὗτοι δʼ οἱ τόποι συνεχεῖς εἰσι τῇ Δαρδανίᾳ καὶ τῇ Σκηψίᾳ, ὥσπερ ἄλλη τις Δαρδανία, ταπεινοτέρα δέ.
I have spoken before of the Leleges, and I shall now add that the poet speaks of a Pedasus, a city of theirs which was subject to Altes; Altes, king of the war-loving Leleges governs / The lofty Pedasus on the river Satnioeis: / the spot exists but there is no city. Some read, but incorrectly, below Satnioeis, as if the city lay at the foot of a mountain called Satnioeis; yet there is no mountain there called Satnioeis, but a river, on which the city is placed. The city is at present deserted. The poet mentions the river; Ajax pierced with his spear Satnius, the son of Oenops, whom the beautiful nymph Naïs bore to Oenops, when he tended herds on the banks of the Satnioeis. And in another place; Oenops dwelt on the banks of the smooth-flowing Satnioeis In lofty Pedasus. Later writers called it Satioeis, and some writers Saphnioeis. It is a great winter torrent, which the poet, by mentioning it, made remarkable. These places are continuous with the districts Dardania and Scepsia, and are as it were another Dardania, but lower than the former.
Ἀσσίων δʼ ἐστὶ νῦν καὶ Γαργαρέων ἕως τῆς κατὰ Λέσβον θαλάττης περιεχόμενα τῇ τε Ἀντανδρίᾳ καὶ τῇ Κεβρηνίων καὶ Νεανδριέων καὶ Ἁμαξιτέων. τῆς μὲν γὰρ Ἁμαξιτοῦ Νεανδριεῖς ὑπέρκεινται, καὶ αὐτοὶ ὄντες ἐντὸς Λεκτοῦ, μεσογειότεροι δὲ καὶ πλησιαίτεροι τῷ Ἰλίῳ· διέχουσι γὰρ ἑκατὸν καὶ τριάκοντα σταδίους. τούτων δὲ καθύπερθε Κεβρήνιοι, τούτων δὲ Δαρδάνιοι μέχρι Παλαισκήψεως καὶ αὐτῆς τῆς Σκήψεως. τὴν δὲ Ἄντανδρον Ἀλκαῖος μὲν καλεῖ Λελέγων πόλιν πρῶτα μὲν Ἄντανδρος Λελέγων πόλις. / ὁ δὲ Σκήψιος ἐν ταῖς παρακειμέναις τίθησιν, ὥστʼ ἐκπίπτοι ἂν εἰς τὴν τῶν Κιλίκων· οὗτοι γάρ εἰσι συνεχεῖς τοῖς Λέλεξι μᾶλλόν πως τὸ νότιον πλευρὸν τῆς Ἴδης ἀφορίζοντες· ταπεινοὶ δʼ ὅμως καὶ οὗτοι καὶ τῇ παραλίᾳ συνάπτοντες μᾶλλον τῇ κατὰ Ἀδραμύττιον. μετὰ γὰρ τὸ Λεκτὸν τὸ Πολυμήδειον ἔστι χωρίον τι ἐν τετταράκοντα σταδίοις, εἶτʼ ἐν ὀγδοήκοντα Ἄσσος μικρὸν ὑπὲρ τῆς θαλάττης, εἶτʼ ἐν ἑκατὸν καὶ τετταράκοντα Γάργαρα· κεῖται δὲ τὰ Γάργαρα ἐπʼ ἄκρας ποιούσης τὸν ἰδίως Ἀδραμυττηνὸν καλούμενον κόλπον. λέγεται γὰρ καὶ πᾶσα ἡ ἀπὸ Λεκτοῦ μέχρι Κανῶν παραλία τῷ αὐτῷ τούτῳ ὀνόματι, ἐν ᾧ καὶ ὁ Ἐλαϊτικὸς περιλαμβάνεται· ἰδίως μέντοι τοῦτον φασὶν Ἀδραμυττηνόν, τὸν κλειόμενον ὑπὸ ταύτης τε τῆς ἄκρας ἐφʼ ᾗ τὰ Γάργαρα, καὶ τῆς Πυρρᾶς ἄκρας προσαγορευομένης ἐφʼ ᾗ καὶ ἀφροδίσιον ἵδρυται. πλάτος δὲ τοῦ στόματός ἐστιν ἀπὸ τῆς ἄκρας ἐπὶ τὴν ἄκραν δίαρμα ἑκατὸν καὶ εἴκοσι σταδίων. ἐντὸς δὲ ἥ τε Ἄντανδρός ἐστιν ὑπερκείμενον ἔχουσα ὄρος ὃ καλοῦσιν Ἀλεξάνδρειαν, ὅπου τὰς θεὰς κριθῆναί φασιν ὑπὸ τοῦ Πάριδος, καὶ ὁ Ἀσπανεὺς τὸ ὑλοτόμιον τῆς Ἰδαίας ὕλης· ἐνταῦθα γὰρ διατίθενται κατάγοντες τοῖς δεομένοις. εἶτʼ Ἄστυρα, κώμη καὶ ἄλσος τῆς Ἀστυρηνῆς Ἀρτέμιδος ἅγιον. πλησίον δʼ εὐθὺς τὸ Ἀδραμύττιον, Ἀθηναίων ἄποικος πόλις ἔχουσα καὶ λιμένα καὶ ναύσταθμον· ἔξω δὲ τοῦ κόλπου καὶ τῆς Πυρρᾶς ἄκρας ἥ τε Κισθήνη ἐστὶ πόλις ἔρημος ἔχουσα λιμένα. ὑπὲρ αὐτῆς δʼ ἐν τῇ μεσογαίᾳ τό τε τοῦ χαλκοῦ μέταλλον καὶ Περπερηνὴ καὶ Τράριον καὶ ἄλλαι τοιαῦται κατοικίαι. ἐν δὲ τῇ παραλίᾳ τῇ ἐφεξῆς αἱ τῶν Μιτυληναίων κῶμαι Κορυφαντίς τε καὶ Ἡράκλεια, καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα Ἄττεα, εἶτʼ Ἀταρνεὺς καὶ Πιτάνη καὶ αἱ τοῦ Καΐκου ἐκβολαί· ταῦτα δʼ ἤδη τοῦ Ἐλαϊτῶν κόλπου· καὶ ἔστιν ἐν τῇ περαίᾳ ἡ Ἐλαία καὶ ὁ λοιπὸς μέχρι Κανῶν κόλπος. λέγωμεν δὲ ἀναλαβόντες περὶ τῶν καθʼ ἕκαστα πάλιν, εἴ τι παραλέλειπται μνήμης ἄξιον, καὶ πρῶτον περὶ τῆς Σκήψεως.
The country comprised in the districts of Antandria, Cebrene, Neandria, and the Hamaxitus, as far as the sea opposite to Lesbos, now belongs to the people of Assus and Gargara.
The Neandrians are situated above Hamaxitus on this side Lectum, but more towards the interior, and nearer to Ilium, from which they are distant 130 stadia. Above these people are the Cebrenii, and above the Cebrenii the Dardanii, extending as far as Palaescepsis, and even to Scepsis.
The poet Alcaeus calls Antandrus a city of the Leleges: First is Antandrus, a city of the Leleges. / Demetrius of Scepsis places it among the adjacent cities, so that it might be in the country of the Cilicians, for these people are rather to be regarded as bordering upon the Leleges, having as their boundary the southern side of Mount Ida. These however are situated low down, and approach nearer the sea-coast at Adramyttium. After Lectum, at the distance of 40 stadia is Polymedium, a stronghold; then at the distance of 80 stadia Assus, situated a little above the sea; next at 140 stadia Gargara, which is situated on a promontory, which forms the gulf, properly called the gulf of Adramyttium. For the whole of the sea-coast from Lectum to Canoe, and the Elaitic bay, is comprised under the same name, the gulf of Adramyttium. This, however, is properly called the Adramyttene gulf, which is enclosed within the promontory on which Gargara stands, and that called the promontory Pyrrha, on which is a temple of Venus. The breadth of the entrance forms a passage across from promontory to promontory of 120 stadia. Within it is Antandrus, with a mountain above it, which is called Alexandreia, where it is said the contest between the goddesses was decided by Paris; and Aspaneus, the depository of the timber cut from the forests of Ida; it is here that wood is brought down and disposed of to those who want it.
Next is Astyra, a village and grove sacred to Artemis Astyrene. Close to it is Adramyttium, a city founded by a colony of Athenians, with a harbour, and a station for vessels. Beyond the gulf and the promontory Pyrrha is Cisthene, a deserted city with a harbour. Above it in the interior is a copper mine, Perperena, Trarium, and other similar settlements.
On this coast after Cisthene are the villages of the Mitylenaeans, Coryphantis and Heracleia; next to these is Attea; then Atarneus, Pitane, and the mouths of the Caïcus. These, however, belong to the Elaitic gulf. On the opposite side of the Caïcus are Elae, and the remainder of the gulf as far as Canae.
We shall resume our description of each place, lest we should have omitted any one that is remarkable. And first with regard to Scepsis.
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