μετὰ δὲ τὸν Κύδνον ὁ Πύραμος ἐκ τῆς Καταονίας ῥέων, οὗπερ καὶ πρότερον ἐμνήσθημεν· φησὶ δʼ Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἐντεῦθεν εἰς Σόλους εὐθυπλοίᾳ σταδίους εἶναι πεντακοσίους. πλησίον δὲ καὶ Μαλλὸς ἐφʼ ὕψους κειμένη, κτίσμα Ἀμφιλόχου καὶ Μόψου τοῦ Ἀπόλλωνος καὶ Μαντοῦς, περὶ ὧν πολλὰ μυθολογεῖται· καὶ δὴ καὶ ἡμεῖς ἐμνήσθημεν αὐτῶν ἐν τοῖς περὶ Κάλχαντος λόγοις καὶ τῆς ἔριδος ἣν ἤρισαν περὶ τῆς μαντικῆς ὅ τε Κάλχας καὶ ὁ Μόψος· ταύτην τε γὰρ τὴν ἔριν μεταφέρουσιν ἔνιοι, καθάπερ καὶ Σοφοκλῆς, εἰς τὴν Κιλικίαν, καλέσας ἐκεῖνος αὐτὴν Παμφυλίαν τραγικῶς, καθάπερ καὶ τὴν Λυκίαν Καρίαν καὶ τὴν Τροίαν καὶ Λυδίαν Φρυγίαν· καὶ τὸν θάνατον δὲ τοῦ Κάλχαντος ἐνταῦθα παραδιδόασιν ἄλλοι τε καὶ Σοφοκλῆς. οὐ μόνον δὲ τὴν περὶ τῆς μαντικῆς ἔριν μεμυθεύκασιν ἀλλὰ καὶ τῆς ἀρχῆς. τὸν γὰρ Μόψον φασὶ καὶ τὸν Ἀμφίλοχον ἐκ Τροίας ἐλθόντας κτίσαι Μαλλόν· εἶτʼ Ἀμφίλοχον εἰς Ἄργος ἀπελθεῖν, δυσαρεστήσαντα δὲ τοῖς ἐκεῖ πάλιν ἀναστρέψαι δεῦρο, ἀποκλειόμενον δὲ τῆς κοινωνίας συμβαλεῖν εἰς μονομαχίαν πρὸς τὸν Μόψον, πεσόντας δʼ ἀμφοτέρους ταφῆναι μὴ ἐν ἐπόψει ἀλλήλοις· καὶ νῦν οἱ τάφοι δείκνυνται περὶ Μάγαρσα τοῦ Πυράμου πλησίον. ἐντεῦθεν δʼ ἦν Κράτης ὁ γραμματικός, οὗ φησι γενέσθαι μαθητὴς Παναίτιος.
After the Cydnus follows the Pyramus, which flows from Cataonia. We have spoken of it before. Artemidorus says, that from thence to Soli is a voyage in a straight line of 500 stadia. Near the Pyramus is Mallus, situated upon a height; it was founded by Amphilochus, and Mopsus, the son of Apollo, and Mantus, about whom many fables are related. I have mentioned them in speaking of Calchas, and of the contest between Calchas and Mopsus respecting their skill in divination. Some persons, as Sophocles, transfer the scene of this contest to Sicily, which, after the custom of tragic poets, they call Pamphylia, as they call Lycia, Caria, and Troy and Lydia, Phrygia. Sophocles, among other writers, says that Calchas died there. According to the fable, the contest did not relate to skill in divination only, but also to sovereignty. For it is said, that Mopsus and Amphilochus, on their return from Troy, founded Mallus; that Amphilochus afterwards went to Argos, and being dissatisfied with the state of affairs there, returned to Mallus, where, being excluded from a share in the government, he engaged with Mopsus in single combat. Both were killed, but their sepulchres are not in sight of each other. They are shown at present at Magarsa, near the Pyramus.
Crates the grammarian was a native of this place, and Panaetius is said to have been his disciple.
ὑπέρκειται δὲ τῆς παραλίας ταύτης Ἀλήιον πεδίον, διʼ οὗ Φιλωτᾶς διήγαγεν Ἀλεξάνδρῳ τὴν ἵππον, ἐκείνου τὴν φάλαγγα ἀγαγόντος ἐκ τῶν Σόλων διὰ τῆς παραλίας καὶ τῆς Μαλλώτιδος ἐπί τε Ἰσσὸν καὶ τὰς Δαρείου δυνάμεις. φασὶ δὲ καὶ ἐναγίσαι τῷ Ἀμφιλόχῳ τὸν Ἀλέξανδρον διὰ τὴν ἐξ Ἄργους συγγένειαν. Ἡσίοδος δʼ ἐν Σόλοις ὑπὸ Ἀπόλλωνος ἀναιρεθῆναι τὸν Ἀμφίλοχόν φησιν, οἱ δὲ περὶ τὸ Ἀλήιον πεδίον, οἱ δʼ ἐν Συρίᾳ, ἀπὸ τοῦ Ἀληίου ἀπιόντα διὰ τὴν ἔριν.
Above this coast is situated the Aleian plain, over which Philotas conducted Alexander’s cavalry, he himself leading the phalanx from Soli along the sea-coast and the territory of Mallus to Issus, against the forces of Darius. It is said that Alexander performed sacrifices in honour of Amphilochus, on account of their common affinity to Argos. Hesiod says that Amphilochus was killed by Apollo at Soli; according to others, at the Aleian plain; and others again say, in Syria, upon his quitting the Aleian plain on account of the quarrel.
μετὰ δὲ Μαλλὸν Αἰγαῖαι πολίχνιον ὕφορμον ἔχον· εἶτʼ Ἀμανίδες πύλαι ὕφορμον ἔχουσαι, εἰς ἃς τελευτᾷ τὸ Ἀμανὸν ὄρος ἀπὸ τοῦ Ταύρου καθῆκον, ὃ τῆς Κιλικίας ὑπέρκειται κατὰ τὸ πρὸς ἕω μέρος, ἀεὶ μὲν ὑπὸ πλειόνων δυναστευόμενον τυράννων ἐχόντων ἐρύματα· καθʼ ἡμᾶς δὲ κατέστη κύριος πάντων ἀνὴρ ἀξιόλογος καὶ βασιλεὺς ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων ὠνομάσθη διὰ τὰς ἀνδραγαθίας Ταρκονδίμοτος, καὶ τὴν διαδοχὴν τοῖς μετʼ αὐτὸν παρέδωκε.
Mallus is followed by Aegaeae, a small town with a shelter for vessels; then the Amanides Gates, (Gates of Amanus,) with a shelter for vessels. At these gates terminates the mountain Amanus, which extends from the Taurus, and lies above Cilicia towards the east. It was successively in the possession of several tyrants, who had strongholds; but, in our time, Tarcondimotus, who was a man of merit, became master of all; for his good conduct and bravery, he received from the Romans the title of King, and transmitted the succession to his posterity.
μετὰ δὲ Αἰγαίας Ἰσσὸς πολίχνιον ὕφορμον ἔχον καὶ ποταμὸς Πίναρος. ἐνταῦθα ὁ ἀγὼν συνέπεσεν Ἀλεξάνδρῳ καὶ Δαρείῳ· καὶ ὁ κόλπος εἴρηται Ἰσσικός· ἐν αὐτῷ δὲ πόλις Ῥωσὸς καὶ Μυρίανδρος πόλις καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρεια καὶ Νικόπολις καὶ Μοψουεστία καὶ πύλαι λεγόμεναι, ὅριον Κιλίκων τε καὶ Σύρων. ἐν δὲ τῇ Κιλικίᾳ ἐστὶ καὶ τὸ τῆς Σαρπηδονίας Ἀρτέμιδος ἱερὸν καὶ μαντεῖον, τοὺς δὲ χρησμοὺς ἔνθεοι προθεσπίζουσιν.
Next to Aegaeae is Issus, a small town with a shelter for vessels, and a river, the Pinarus. At Issus the battle was fought between Alexander and Darius. The bay is called the Issic Bay. The city Rhosus is situated upon it, as also the city Myriandrus, Alexandreia, Nicopolis, Mopsuestia, and the Gates, as they are called, which are the boundary between Cilicia and Syria.
In Cilicia are the temple of the Sarpedonian Artemis and an oracle. Persons possessed with divine inspiration deliver the oracles.
μετὰ δὲ τὴν Κιλικίαν πρώτη πόλις ἐστὶ τῶν Σύρων Σελεύκεια ἡ ἐν Πιερίᾳ, καὶ πλησίον Ὀρόντης ἐκδίδωσι ποταμός. ἔστι δʼ ἀπὸ Σελευκείας εἰς Σόλους ἐπʼ εὐθείας πλοῦς ὀλίγον ἀπολείπων τῶν χιλίων σταδίων.
After Cilicia, the first Syrian city is Seleucia-in-Pieria; near it the river Orontes empties itself. From Seleucia to Soli is a voyage in a straight line of nearly 1000 stadia.
τῶν δʼ ἐν Τροίᾳ Κιλίκων ὧν Ὅμηρος μέμνηται πολὺ διεστώτων ἀπὸ τῶν ἔξω τοῦ Ταύρου Κιλίκων, οἱ μὲν ἀποφαίνουσιν ἀρχηγέτας τοὺς ἐν τῇ Τροίᾳ τούτων καὶ δεικνύουσί τινας τόπους κἀνταῦθα, ὥσπερ ἐν τῇ Παμφυλίᾳ Θήβην καὶ Λυρνησσόν, οἱ δʼ ἔμπαλιν καὶ Ἀλήιόν τι πεδίον κἀκεῖ δεικνύουσι. περιωδευμένων δὲ καὶ τῶν ἔξω τοῦ Ταύρου μερῶν τῆς προειρημένης χερρονήσου, προσθετέον ἐστὶ καὶ ταῦτα.
Since the Cilicians of the Troad, whom Homer mentions, are situated at a great distance from the Cilicians without the Taurus, some writers declare that the leaders of the latter colony were Cilicians of the Troad, and point to Thebe and Lyrnessus in Pamphylia, places bearing the same name as those in the Troad; other authors are of a contrary opinion, and (considering the Cilicians of the Troad as descendants of those from beyond the Taurus) point to an Aleian plain (in support of their hypothesis).
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