φησὶ δὲ Ἀρτεμίδωρος ἀπὸ Φύσκου τῆς Ῥοδίων περαίας ἰοῦσιν εἰς Ἔφεσον μέχρι μὲν Λαγίνων ὀκτακοσίους εἶναι καὶ πεντήκοντα σταδίους, ἐντεῦθεν δʼ εἰς Ἀλάβανδα πεντήκοντα ἄλλους καὶ διακοσίους, εἰς δὲ Τράλλεις ἑκατὸν ἑξήκοντα· ἀλλʼ ἡ εἰς Τράλλεις ἐστὶ διαβάντι τὸν Μαίανδρον κατὰ μέσην που τὴν ὁδὸν ὅπου τῆς Καρίας οἱ ὅροι· γίνονται δʼ οἱ πάντες ἀπὸ Φύσκου ἐπὶ τὸν Μαίανδρον κατὰ τὴν εἰς Ἔφεσον ὁδὸν χίλιοι ἑκατὸν ὀγδοήκοντα. πάλιν ἀπὸ τοῦ Μαιάνδρου τῆς Ἰωνίας ἐφεξῆς μῆκος ἐπιόντι κατὰ τὴν αὐτὴν ὁδὸν ἀπὸ μὲν τοῦ ποταμοῦ εἰς Τράλλεις ὀγδοήκοντα, εἶτʼ εἰς Μαγνησίαν ἑκατὸν τετταράκοντα, εἰς Ἔφεσον δʼ ἑκατὸν εἴκοσιν, εἰς δὲ Σμύρναν τριακόσιοι εἴκοσιν, εἰς δὲ Φώκαιαν καὶ τοὺς ὅρους τῆς Ἰωνίας ἐλάττους τῶν διακοσίων, ὥστε τὸ ἐπʼ εὐθείας μῆκος τῆς Ἰωνίας εἴη ἂν κατʼ αὐτὸν μικρῷ πλέον τῶν ὀκτακοσίων. ἐπεὶ δὲ κοινή τις ὁδὸς τέτριπται ἅπασι τοῖς ἐπὶ τὰς ἀνατολὰς ὁδοιποροῦσιν ἐξ Ἐφέσου, καὶ ταύτην ἔπεισιν. ἐπὶ μὲν τὰ Κάρουρα τῆς Καρίας ὅριον πρὸς τὴν Φρυγίαν διὰ Μαγνησίας καὶ Τραλλέων Νύσης Ἀντιοχείας ὁδὸς ἑπτακοσίων καὶ τετταράκοντα σταδίων· ἐντεῦθεν δὲ ἡ Φρυγία διὰ Λαοδικείας καὶ Ἀπαμείας καὶ Μητροπόλεως καὶ Χελιδονίων· ἐπὶ μὲν οὖν τὴν ἀρχὴν τῆς Παρωρείου, τοὺς Ὅλμους, στάδιοι περὶ ἐνακοσίους καὶ εἴκοσιν ἐκ τῶν Καρούρων· ἐπὶ δὲ τὸ πρὸς τῇ Λυκαονίᾳ πέρας τῆς Παρωρείου τὸ Τυριαῖον διὰ Φιλομηλίου μικρῷ πλείους τῶν πεντακοσίων, εἶθʼ ἡ Λυκαονία μέχρι Κοροπασσοῦ διὰ Λαοδικείας τῆς κατακεκαυμένης ὀκτακόσιοι τετταράκοντα, ἐκ δὲ Κοροπασσοῦ τῆς Λυκαονίας εἰς Γαρσάουρα, πολίχνιον τῆς Καππαδοκίας ἐπὶ τῶν ὅρων αὐτῆς ἱδρυμένον, ἑκατὸν εἴκοσιν· ἐντεῦθεν δʼ εἰς Μάζακα τὴν μητρόπολιν τῶν Καππαδόκων διὰ Σοάνδου καὶ Σαδακόρων ἑξακόσιοι ὀγδοήκοντα· ἐντεῦθεν δʼ ἐπὶ τὸν Εὐφράτην μέχρι Τομίσων χωρίου τῆς Σωφηνῆς διὰ Ἡρφῶν πολίχνης χίλιοι τετρακόσιοι τετταράκοντα. τὰ δʼ ἐπʼ εὐθείας τούτοις μέχρι τῆς Ἰνδικῆς τὰ αὐτὰ κεῖται καὶ παρὰ τῷ Ἀρτεμιδώρῳ ἅπερ καὶ παρὰ τῷ Ἐρατοσθένει. λέγει δὲ καὶ Πολύβιος περὶ τῶν ἐκεῖ μάλιστα δεῖν πιστεύειν ἐκείνῳ. ἄρχεται δὲ ἀπὸ Σαμοσάτων τῆς Κομμαγηνῆς, ἣ πρὸς τῇ διαβάσει καὶ τῷ Ζεύγματι κεῖται· εἰς δὲ Σαμόσατα ἀπὸ τῶν ὅρων τῆς Καππαδοκίας τῶν περὶ Τόμισα ὑπερθέντι τὸν Ταῦρον σταδίους εἴρηκε τετρακοσίους καὶ πεντήκοντα.
Artemidorus says that the journey from Physcus, on the coast opposite to Rhodes, towards Ephesus, as far as Lagina is 850 stadia; thence to Alabanda 250 stadia; to Tralles 160. About halfway on the road to Tralles the Maeander is crossed, and here are the boundaries of Caria. The whole number of stadia from Physcus to the Maeander, along the road to Ephesus, is 1180 stadia. Again, along the same road, from the Maeander of Ionia to Tralles 80 stadia, to Magnesia 140 stadia, to Ephesus 120, to Smyrna 320, to Phocaea and the boundaries of Ionia, less than 200 stadia; so that the length of Ionia in a straight line would be, according to Artemidorus, a little more than 800 stadia.
But as there is a public frequented road by which all travellers pass on their way from Ephesus to the east, Artemidorus thus describes it. [From Ephesus] to Carura, the boundary of Caria towards Phrygia, through Magnesia and Tralles, Nysa, Antioch, is a journey of 740 stadia. From Carura, the first town in Phrygia, through Laodiceia, Apameia, Metropolis, and Chelidoniae, to Holmi, the beginning of the Paroreius, a country lying at the foot of the mountains, about 920 stadia; to Tyriaeum, the termination towards Lycaonia of the Paroreius, through Philomelium is little more than 500 stadia. Next is Lycaonia as far as Coropassus, through Laodiceia in the Catacecaumene, 840 stadia; from Coropassus in Lycaonia to Garsaüra, a small city of Cappadocia, situated on its borders, 120 stadia; thence to Mazaca, the metropolis of the Cappadocians, through Soandus and Sadacora, 680 stadia; thence to the Euphrates, as far as Tomisa, a stronghold in Sophene, through Herphae, a small town, 1440 stadia.
The places in a straight line with these, as far as India, are described in the same manner by Artemidorus and Eratosthenes. Polybius says, that with respect to those places we ought chiefly to depend upon Artemidorus. He begins from Samosata in Commagene, which is situated at the passage, and the Zeugma of the Euphrates, to Samosata across the Taurus, from the mountains of Cappadocia about Tomisa, he says is a distance of 450 stadia.
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