ὁ γὰρ Ἀπολλόδωρος ἐν τοῖς περὶ νεῶν ἔτι καὶ τοιαῦτα λέγει· τοὺς γὰρ ἐκ τῆς Ἀσίας ἐπικούρους τῶν Τρώων ἅπαντας καταριθμεῖσθαί φησιν ὑπὸ τοῦ ποιητοῦ τῆς χερρονήσου κατοίκους ὄντας, ἧς ὁ στενώτατος ἰσθμός ἐστι τὸ μεταξὺ τοῦ κατὰ Σινώπην μυχοῦ καὶ Ἰσσοῦ· αἱ δʼ ἐκτὸς πλευραί φησί τριγωνοειδοῦς οὔσης, εἰσὶ μὲν ἄνισοι, παρήκουσι δὲ ἡ μὲν ἀπὸ Κιλικίας ἐπὶ Χελιδονίας, ἡ δʼ ἐνθένδε ἐπὶ τὸ στόμα τοῦ Εὐξείνου, ἡ δʼ ἐπὶ Σινώπην πάλιν ἐνθένδε. τὸ μὲν οὖν μόνους τοὺς ἐν τῇ χερρονήσῳ διὰ τῶν αὐτῶν ἐλέγχοιτʼ ἂν ψεῦδος ὂν διʼ ὧν ἠλέγξαμεν πρότερον μὴ μόνους τοὺς ἐντὸς Ἅλυος. οἱ γὰρ περὶ Φαρνακίαν τόποι ἐν οἷς τοὺς Ἁλιζώνους ἔφαμεν, ὥσπερ ἔξω τοῦ Ἅλυός εἰσιν, οὕτω καὶ ἔξω τοῦ ἰσθμοῦ, εἴπερ καὶ τῶν στενῶν τῶν μεταξὺ Σινώπης καὶ Ἰσσοῦ, καὶ οὐ τούτων γε μόνων ἀλλὰ καὶ τῶν κατʼ ἀλήθειαν στενῶν τῶν μεταξὺ Ἀμισοῦ τε καὶ Ἰσσοῦ· οὐδὲ γὰρ ἐκεῖνος ὀρθῶς ἀφώρισται τὸν ἰσθμὸν καὶ τὰ κατʼ αὐτὸν στενά, ἐκεῖνα ἀντὶ τούτων τιθείς. πάντων δʼ εὐηθέστατον τὸ τὴν χερρόνησον τριγωνοειδῆ φήσαντα τρεῖς ἀποφήνασθαι τὰς ἔξω πλευράς· ὁ γὰρ τὰς ἔξω λέγων πλευρὰς ἔοικεν ὑπεξαιρουμένῳ τὴν κατὰ τὰ στενά, ὡς καὶ ταύτην οὖσαν πλευράν, οὐκ ἔξω δὲ οὐδʼ ἐπὶ θαλάττῃ. εἰ μὲν τοίνυν τὰ στενὰ ταῦτα οὕτως ἦν συνηγμένα ὥστε μικρὸν ἀπολείπειν τοῦ συνάπτειν ἐπʼ ἀλλήλαις τήν τε ἐπὶ Ἰσσὸν καὶ τὴν ἐπὶ Σινώπην πίπτουσαν πλευράν, συνεχώρει ἂν τριγωνοειδῆ λέγεσθαι τὴν χερρόνησον· νῦν δέ γε τρισχιλίους σταδίους ἀπολειπόντων μεταξὺ τῶν ὑπʼ αὐτοῦ λεγομένων στενῶν, ἀμαθία τὸ λέγειν τριγωνοειδὲς τὸ τοιοῦτον τετράπλευρον, οὐδὲ χωρογραφικόν. ὁ δὲ καὶ χωρογραφίαν ἐξέδωκεν ἐν κωμικῷ μέτρῳ γῆς περίοδον ἐπιγράψας. μένει δʼ ἡ αὐτὴ ἀμαθία κἂν εἰς τοὐλάχιστον καταγάγῃ διάστημά τις τὸν ἰσθμόν, ὅσον εἰρήκασιν οἱ πλεῖστον ψευσάμενοι τὸ ἥμισυ τοῦ παντός, ὅσον εἴρηκε καὶ Ἀρτεμίδωρος, χιλίους καὶ πεντακοσίους σταδίους· οὐδὲ γὰρ τοῦτο συναγωγήν πω τριγωνοειδοῦς ποιεῖ σχήματος. ἀλλʼ οὐδὲ τὰς πλευρὰς ὀρθῶς διῄρηται τὰς ἔξω τὴν ἀπὸ Ἰσσοῦ μέχρι Χελιδονίων εἰπών· λοιπὴ γάρ ἐστιν ὅλη ἐπʼ εὐθείας ἡ Λυκιακὴ παραλία ταύτῃ, καὶ ἡ τῶν Ῥοδίων περαία μέχρι Φύσκου· ἐντεῦθεν δὲ καμπὴν λαβοῦσα ἡ ἤπειρος ἄρχεται τὴν δευτέραν καὶ δυσμικὴν ποιεῖν πλευρὰν ἄχρι Προποντίδος καὶ Βυζαντίου.
Having described the parts of the before-mentioned Chersonesus without the Taurus, I must add these particulars.
Apollodorus, in his work on the catalogue of the ships mentioned in Homer, relates, that all the allies of the Trojans, who came from Asia, inhabited, according to the poet, the peninsula of which at its narrowest part is the isthmus between the innermost recess of the bay at Sinope and Issus. The exterior sides (of this peninsula), which is of a triangular shape, are unequal. Of these, one extends from Cilicia to Chelidoniae, (islands,) another thence to the mouth of the Euxine, and the third from the mouth of the Euxine to Sinope.
The assertion that the allies were only those who occupied the peninsula may be proved to be erroneous by the same arguments by which we before showed that those who lived within the Halys were not the only allies. For the places about Pharnacia, where we said the Halizoni lived, are situated without the Halys, and also without the isthmus, for they are without the line drawn from Sinope to Issus; and not only without this line, but also without the true line of the isthmus drawn from Amisus to Issus; for Apollodorus incorrectly describes the isthmus and the line of its direction, substituting one line for another (the line drawn from Sinope to Issus for the line drawn from Amisus to Issus).
But the greatest absurdity is this, that after having said that the peninsula was of a triangular shape, he speaks of three exterior sides. For in speaking of exterior sides, he seems to except the line of the isthmus itself, considering it still a side, although not an exterior side, from its not being upon the sea. But if this line were so shortened that the extremities of the (exterior) sides falling upon Issus and Sinope nearly coincided, the peninsula might in that case be said to be of a triangular shape; but as his own line (from Sinope to Issus) is 3000 stadia in length, it would be ignorance, and not a knowledge of chorography, to call such a four-sided figure a triangle. Yet he published a work on Chorography, in the metre of comedy, (Iambic metre,) entitled The Circuit of the Earth.
He is still liable to the same charge of ignorance, even if we should suppose the isthmus to be contracted to its least dimensions, and follow writers who erroneously estimate the distance at one-half of the sum, namely 1500 stadia, to which it is reduced by Artemidorus; but even this would not by any means reduce the thus contracted space to the figure of a triangle.
Besides, Artemidorus has not correctly described the exterior sides; one side, he says, extends from Issus to the Chelidoniae islands, although the whole Lycian coast, and the country opposite to Rhodes as far as Physcus, lies in a straight line with, and is a continuation of it; the continent then makes a bend at Physcus, and forms the commencement of the second or western side, extending to the Propontis and Byzantium.
φήσαντος δὲ τοῦ Ἐφόρου διότι τὴν χερρόνησον κατοικεῖ ταύτην ἑκκαίδεκα γένη, τρία μὲν Ἑλληνικὰ τὰ δὲ λοιπὰ βάρβαρα χωρὶς τῶν μιγάδων, ἐπὶ θαλάττῃ μὲν Κίλικες καὶ Πάμφυλοι καὶ Λύκιοι καὶ Βιθυνοὶ καὶ Παφλαγόνες καὶ Μαριανδυνοὶ καὶ Τρῶες καὶ Κᾶρες, Πισίδαι δὲ καὶ Μυσοὶ καὶ Χάλυβες καὶ Φρύγες καὶ Μιλύαι ἐν τῇ μεσογαίᾳ, διαιτῶν ταῦτα ὁ Ἀπολλόδωρος ἑπτακαιδέκατόν φησιν εἶναι τὸ τῶν Γαλατῶν, ὃ νεώτερόν ἐστι τοῦ Ἐφόρου, τῶν δʼ εἰρημένων τὰ μὲν Ἑλληνικὰ μήπω κατὰ τὰ Τρωικὰ κατῳκίσθαι, τὰ δὲ βάρβαρα πολλὴν ἔχειν σύγχυσιν διὰ τὸν χρόνον· καταλέγεσθαι δʼ ὑπὸ τοῦ ποιητοῦ τό τε τῶν Τρώων καὶ τῶν νῦν ὀνομαζομένων Παφλαγόνων καὶ Μυσῶν καὶ Φρυγῶν καὶ Καρῶν καὶ Λυκίων, Μῄονάς ἀντὶ Λυδῶν καὶ ἄλλους ἀγνῶτας, οἷον Ἁλιζῶνας καὶ Καύκωνας· ἐκτὸς δὲ τοῦ καταλόγου Κητείους τε καὶ Σολύμους καὶ Κίλικας τοὺς ἐκ Θήβης πεδίου καὶ Λέλεγας· Παμφύλους δὲ καὶ Βιθυνοὺς καὶ Μαριανδυνοὺς καὶ Πισίδας καὶ Χάλυβας καὶ Μιλύας καὶ Καππάδοκας μηδʼ ὠνομάσθαι, τοὺς μὲν διὰ τὸ μηδέπω τοὺς τόπους κατῳκηκέναι τούτους, τοὺς δὲ διὰ τὸ ἑτέροις γένεσι περιέχεσθαι, ὡς Ἰδριεῖς μὲν καὶ Τερμίλαι Καρσί, Δολίονες δὲ καὶ Βέβρυκες Φρυξί.
Ephorus had said that this peninsula was inhabited by sixteen tribes, three of which were Grecian, and the rest barbarous, with the exception of the mixed nations; he placed on the sea-coast Cilicians, Pamphylians, Lycians, Bithynians, Paphlagonians, Mariandyni, Troes, and Carians; and in the interior, Pisidians, Mysians, Chalybes, Phrygians, and Milyae. Apollodorus, when discussing this position, says there is a seventeenth tribe, the Galatians, who are more recent than the time of Ephorus; that of the sixteen tribes mentioned, the Greeks were not settled (in the peninsula) at the period of the Trojan war, and that time has produced great intermixture and confusion among the barbarous nations. Homer, he continues, recites in his Catalogue the Troes, and those now called Paphlagonians, Mysians, Phrygians, Carians, Lycians, Meionians, instead of Lydians and other unknown people, as Halizoni and Caucones; nations besides not mentioned in the Catalogue but elsewhere, as Ceteii, Solymi, the Cilicians from the plain of Thebe, and Leleges. But the Pamphylians, Bithynians, Mariandyni, Pisidians, and Chalybes, Milyae, and Cappadocians are nowhere mentioned by the poet; some because they did not then inhabit these places, and some because they were surrounded by other tribes, as Idrieis and Termilae by Carians, Doliones and Bebryces by Phrygians.
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