μεταξὺ δὲ Ἐλαίας τε καὶ Πιτάνης καὶ Ἀταρνέως καὶ Περγάμου Τευθρανία ἐστί, διέχουσα οὐδεμιᾶς αὐτῶν ὑπὲρ ἑβδομήκοντα σταδίους ἐντὸς τοῦ Καΐκου, καὶ ὁ Τεύθρας Κιλίκων καὶ Μυσῶν ἱστόρηται βασιλεύς. Εὐριπίδης δʼ ὑπὸ Ἀλέου φησὶ τοῦ τῆς Αὔγης πατρὸς εἰς λάρνακα τὴν Αὔγην κατατεθεῖσαν ἅμα τῷ παιδὶ Τηλέφῳ καταποντωθῆναι, φωράσαντος τὴν ἐξ Ἡρακλέους φθοράν· Ἀθηνᾶς δὲ προνοίᾳ τὴν λάρνακα περαιωθεῖσαν ἐκπεσεῖν εἰς τὸ στόμα τοῦ Καΐκου, τὸν δὲ Τεύθραντα ἀναλαβόντα τὰ σώματα τῇ μὲν ὡς γαμετῇ χρήσασθαι τῷ δʼ ὡς ἑαυτοῦ παιδί. τοῦτο μὲν οὖν μῦθος, ἄλλην δέ τινα δεῖ γεγονέναι συντυχίαν, διʼ ἣν ἡ τοῦ Ἀρκάδος θυγάτηρ τῷ Μυσῶν βασιλεῖ συνῆλθε καὶ ὁ ἐξ αὐτῆς διεδέξατο τὴν ἐκείνου βασιλείαν. πεπίστευται δʼ οὖν ὅτι καὶ ὁ Τεύθρας καὶ ὁ Τήλεφος ἐβασίλευσαν τῆς χώρας τῆς περὶ τὴν Τευθρανίαν καὶ τὸν Κάικον, ὁ δὲ ποιητὴς ἐπὶ τοσοῦτον μέμνηται μόνον τῆς ἱστορίας ταύτης ἀλλʼ οἷον τὸν Τηλεφίδην κατενήρατο χαλκῷ / ἥρω Εὐρύπυλον, πολλοὶ δʼ ἀμφʼ αὐτὸν ἑταῖροι / Κήτειοι κτείνοντο γυναίων εἵνεκα δώρων, / αἴνιγμα τιθεὶς ἡμῖν μᾶλλον ἢ λέγων τι σαφές. οὔτε γὰρ τοὺς Κητείους ἴσμεν οὕστινας δέξασθαι δεῖ, οὔτε τὸ γυναίων εἵνεκα δώρων. ἀλλὰ καὶ οἱ γραμματικοὶ μυθάρια παραβάλλοντες εὑρεσιλογοῦσι μᾶλλον ἢ λύουσι τὰ ζητούμενα.
Between Elaea, Pitane, Atarneus, and Pergamum on this side the Caïcus, is Teuthrania, distant from none of these places above 70 stadia. Teuthras is said to have been king of the Cilicians and Mysians. According to Euripides, Auge, with her son Telephus, was enclosed in a chest and thrown into the sea, by command of her father Aleus, who discovered that she had been violated by Hercules. By the care of Minerva the chest crossed the sea, and was cast ashore at the mouth of the Caïcus. Teuthras took up the mother and her son, married the former, and treated the latter as his own child. This is a fable, but another concurrence of circumstances is wanting to explain how the daughter of the Arcadian became the wife of the king of the Mysians, and how her son succeeded to the throne of the Mysians. It is however believed that Teuthras and Telephus governed the country lying about Teuthrania and the Caïcus, but the poet mentions a few particulars only of this history: as when he slew the son of Telephus, the hero Eurypylns, and many of his companions, the Ceaei, were killed around him for the sake of the gifts of women. Homer here rather proposes an enigma than a clear meaning. For we do not know who the Cetaei were, nor what people we are to understand by this name, nor what is meant by the words, for the sake of the gifts of women. Grammarians adduce and compare with this other trifling stories, but they indulge in invetion rather than solve the difficulty.
ἐάσθω δὴ ταῦτα, ἐκεῖνο δʼ ὅπερ ἐστὶ μᾶλλον ἐν φανερῷ λαβόντες λέγωμεν, ὅτι ἐν τοῖς περὶ τὸν Κάικον τόποις φαίνεται βεβασιλευκὼς καθʼ Ὅμηρον ὁ Εὐρύπυλος, ὥστʼ ἴσως καὶ τῶν Κιλίκων τι μέρος ἦν ὑπʼ αὐτῷ, καὶ οὐ δύο δυναστεῖαι μόνον ἀλλὰ καὶ τρεῖς ὑπῆρξαν ἐν αὐτοῖς. τῷ δὲ λόγῳ τούτῳ συνηγορεῖ τὸ ἐν τῇ Ἐλαΐτιδι χειμαρρῶδες ποτάμιον δείκνυσθαι Κήτειον· ἐμπίπτει δʼ οὗτος εἰς ἄλλον ὅμοιον, εἶτʼ ἄλλον, καταστρέφουσι δὲ εἰς τὸν Κάικον· ὁ δὲ Κάικος οὐκ ἀπὸ τῆς Ἴδης ῥεῖ, καθάπερ εἴρηκε Βακχυλίδης, οὐδʼ ὀρθῶς Εὐριπίδης τὸν Μαρσύαν φησί τὰς διωνομασμένας / ναίειν Κελαινὰς ἐσχάτοις Ἴδης τόποις. / πολὺ γὰρ τῆς Ἴδης ἄπωθεν αἱ Κελαιναί, πολὺ δὲ καὶ αἱ τοῦ Καΐκου πηγαί· δείκνυνται γὰρ ἐν πεδίῳ. Τῆμνον δʼ ἔστιν ὄρος ὃ διορίζει τοῦτό τε καὶ τὸ καλούμενον Ἀπίας πεδίον, ὃ ὑπέρκειται ἐν τῇ μεσογαίᾳ τοῦ Θήβης πεδίου· ῥεῖ δʼ ἐκ τοῦ Τήμνου ποταμὸς Μύσιος ἐμβάλλων εἰς τὸν Κάικον ὑπὸ ταῖς πηγαῖς αὐτοῦ, ἀφʼ οὗ δέχονταί τινες εἰπεῖν Αἰσχύλον κατὰ τὴν εἰσβολὴν τοῦ ἐν Μυρμιδόσι προλόγου ἰὼ Κάικε Μύσιαί τʼ ἐπιρροαί. / ἐγγὺς δὲ τῶν πηγῶν κώμη Γέργιθα ἔστιν, εἰς ἣν μετῴκισεν Ἄτταλος τοὺς ἐν τῇ Τρῳάδι τὸ χωρίον ἐξελών.
Let us dismiss this doubtful matter, and turn to what is more certain; for instance, according to Homer, Eurypylus appears to have been king of the places about the Caïcus, so that perhaps a part of the Cilicians were his subjects, and that there were not only two but three dynasties among that people.
This opinion is supported by the circumstance that in the Elaïtis there is a small river, like a winter torrent, of the name of Ceteium. This falls into another like it, then again into another, but all discharge themselves into the Caïcus. The Caïcus does not flow from Ida, as Bacchylides says, nor does Euripides say correctly that Marsyas inhabited the famous Celaenae, at the extremity of Ida, / for Celaenae is at a great distance from Ida, and so are the sources of the Caïcus, for they are to be seen in the plain.
There is a mountain, Temnum, which separates this and the plain of Asia; it lies in the interior above the plain of Thebe. A river, Mysius, flows from Temnum and enters the Caïcus below its source. Hence some persons suppose that Aeschylus refers to it in the beginning of the prologue to the play of the Myrmidons, Caïcus, and ye Mysian streams— / Near its source is a village called Gergitha, to which Attalus transferred the inhabitants of Gergitha in the Troad, after destroying their own stronghold.
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