ἔστι δʼ ἡ Θρᾴκη σύμπασα ἐκ δυεῖν καὶ εἴκοσιν ἐθνῶν συνεστῶσα· δύναται δὲ στέλλειν καίπερ οὖσα περισσῶς ἐκπεπονημένη μυρίους καὶ πεντακισχιλίους ἱππέας, πεζῶν δὲ καὶ εἴκοσι μυριάδας. μετὰ δὲ τὴν Μαρώνειαν Ὀρθαγόρεια πόλις καὶ τὰ περὶ Σέρριον, παράπλους τραχύς, καὶ τὸ τῶν Σαμοθρᾴκων πολίχνιον Τέμπυρα καὶ ἄλλο Χαράκωμα, οὗ πρόκειται ἡ Σαμοθρᾴκη νῆσος, καὶ Ἴμβρος οὐ πολὺ ἄπωθεν ταύτης· πλέον δʼ ἢ διπλάσιον ἡ Θάσος. ἀπὸ δὲ Χαρακώματος Δορίσκος, ὅπου ἐμέτρησε Ξέρξης τῆς στρατιᾶς τὸ πλῆθος. εἶθʼ Ἕβρος ἀνάπλουν ἔχων εἰς Κύψελα ἑκατὸν εἴκοσι· τῆς Μακεδονίας φησὶ τοῦτο ὅριον, ἣν ἀφείλοντο Περσέα Ῥωμαῖοι καὶ μετὰ ταῦτα τὸν Ψευδοφίλιππον. Παῦλος μὲν οὖν ὁ τὸν Περσέα ἑλὼν συνάψας τῇ Μακεδονίᾳ καὶ τὰ Ἠπειρωτικὰ ἔθνη εἰς τέτταρα μέρη διέταξε τὴν χώραν, καὶ τὸ μὲν προσένειμεν Ἀμφιπόλει, τὸ δὲ Θεσσαλονικείᾳ, τὸ δὲ Πέλλῃ, τὸ δὲ Πελαγόσι. παροικοῦσι δὲ τὸν Ἕβρον Κορπῖλοι καὶ Βρέναι ἔτι ἀνωτέρω, εἶτʼ ἔσχατοι Βέσσοι· μέχρι γὰρ δεῦρο ὁ ἀνάπλους. ἅπαντα δὲ τὰ ἔθνη λῃστρικὰ ταῦτα, μάλιστα δʼ οἱ Βέσσοι, οὓς λέγει γειτονεύειν Ὀδρύσαις καὶ Σαπαίοις. ἀστῶν δὲ βασίλειον ἦν Βιζύη. Ὀδρύσας δὲ καλοῦσιν ἔνιοι πάντας τοὺς ἀπὸ Ἕβρου καὶ Κυψέλων μέχρι Ὀδησσοῦ τῆς παραλίας ὑπεροικοῦντας, ὧν ἐβασίλευσεν Ἀμάδοκος καὶ Κερσοβλέπτης καὶ Βηρισάδης καὶ Σεύθης καὶ Κότυς. E.
The whole of Thrace is composed of twenty-two nations. Although greatly exhausted, it is capable of equipping 15,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry. After Maronia are Orthagoria, a city, and the district of Serrium (the navigation along the coast is difficult); the small city Tempyra belonging to the Samothracians, and another Caracoma, (the Stockade,) in front of which lies the island Samothrace. Imbros is at no great distance from Samothrace; Thasos is double the distance from it. After Caracoma is Doriscus, where Xerxes counted the number of his army. Then the Hebrus, with a navigation up the stream for 100 stadia to Cypsela. Strabo says that this was the boundary of Macedonia when wrested by the Romans, first from Perseus, and afterwards from Pseudophilip. Paulus, who overthrew Perseus, united the Epirotic nations to Macedonia, and divided the country into four parts; one he assigned to Amphipolis, a second to Thessalonica, a third to Pella, and a fourth to Pelagonia. Along the Hebrus dwell the Corpili, the Brenae still higher up, above them, and lastly the Bessi, for the Hebrus is navigable up to this point. All these nations are addicted to plunder, particularly the Bessi, whom, he says, border upon the Odrysae and Sapei. Bizya is the capital of the Astrae (?). Some give the name of Odrysae to all those people who live on the mountains overhanging the coast, from the Hebrus and Cypsela to Odessus. They were under the kingly government of Amadocus, Khersobleptes, Berisades, Seuthes, (Theseus?) and Cotys. E.
ὅτι ὁ νῦν ποταμὸς Ῥιγινία ἐν Θρᾴκῃ καλούμενος Ἐρίγων ἦν καλούμενος. Epit.
The river in Thrace now called Rhiginia (Rhegina?) was formerly called Erigon (Erginus?). EPIT.
ὅτι τὴν Σαμοθρᾴκην Ἰασίων καὶ Δάρδανος ἀδελφοὶ ᾤκουν· κεραυνωθέντος δὲ Ἰασίωνος διὰ τὴν εἰς Δήμητρα ἁμαρτίαν, ὁ Δάρδανος ἀπάρας ἐκ Σαμοθρᾴκης, ἐλθὼν ᾤκησεν ἐν τῇ ὑπωρείᾳ τῆς Ἴδης, τὴν πόλιν Δαρδανίαν καλέσας, καὶ ἐδίδαξε τοὺς Τρῶας τὰ ἐν Σαμοθρᾴκῃ μυστήρια· ἐκαλεῖτο δὲ ἡ Σαμοθρᾴκη Σάμος πρίν. Epit.
Samothrace was inhabited by the brothers Jasion and Dardanus. Jasion was killed by lightning, for his crime against Ceres; Dardanus moved away from Samothrace, and built a city, to which he gave the name of Dardania, at the foot of Mount Ida. He taught the Trojans the Samothracian mysteries. Samothrace was formerly called Samos. EPIT.
ὅτι τοὺς ἐν τῇ Σαμοθρᾴκῃ τιμωμένους θεοὺς εἰρήκασι πολλοὶ τοὺς αὐτοὺς τοῖς Καβείροις, οὐδʼ αὐτοὺς ἔχοντες λέγειν τοὺς Καβείρους οἵτινές εἰσι, καθάπερ τοὺς Κύρβαντας καὶ Κορύβαντας, ὡς δʼ αὕτως Κουρῆτας καὶ Ἰδαίους Δακτύλους. E.
The gods worshipped in Samothrace, the Curbantes and Corybantes, the Curetes and the Idaean Dactyli, are said by many persons to be the same as the Cabiri, although they are unable to explain who the Cabiri were. E.
πρὸς δὲ τῇ ἐκβολῇ τοῦ Ἕβρου διστόμου ὄντος πόλις Αἶνος ἐν τῷ Μέλανι κόλπῳ κεῖται, κτίσμα Μιτυληναίων καὶ Κυμαίων, ἔτι δὲ πρότερον Ἀλωπεκοννησίων· εἶτʼ ἄκρα Σαρπηδών· εἶθʼ ἡ Χερρόνησος ἡ Θρᾳκία καλουμένη, ποιοῦσα τήν τε Προποντίδα καὶ τὸν Μέλανα κόλπον καὶ τὸν Ἑλλήσποντον· ἄκρα γὰρ ἔκκειται πρὸς εὐρόνοτον, συνάπτουσα τὴν Εὐρώπην πρὸς τὴν Ἀσίαν ἑπτασταδίῳ πορθμῷ τῷ κατὰ Ἄβυδον καὶ Σηστόν, ἐν ἀριστερᾷ μὲν τὴν Προποντίδα ἔχουσα, ἐν δεξιᾷ δὲ τὸν Μέλανα κόλπον καλούμενον οὕτως ἀπὸ τοῦ Μέλανος ἐκδιδόντος εἰς αὐτόν, καθάπερ Ἡρόδοτος καὶ Εὔδοξος· εἴρηκε δέ, φησίν, ὁ Ἡρόδοτος μὴ ἀνταρκέσαι τὸ ῥεῖθρον τῇ Ξέρξου στρατιᾷ τοῦτο· ἰσθμῷ δὲ κλείεται τετταράκοντα σταδίων ἡ λεχθεῖσα ἄκρα ἐν μέσῳ μὲν οὖν τοῦ ἰσθμοῦ Λυσιμάχεια πόλις ἵδρυται ἐπώνυμος τοῦ κτίσαντος βασιλέως· ἑκατέρωθεν δʼ ἐπὶ μὲν τῷ Μέλανι κόλπῳ Καρδία κεῖται μεγίστη τῶν ἐν τῇ Χερρονήσῳ πόλεων, Μιλησίων καὶ Κλαζομενίων κτίσμα, ὕστερον δὲ καὶ Ἀθηναίων· ἐν δὲ τῇ Προποντίδι Πακτύη. μετὰ δὲ Καρδίαν Δράβος καὶ Λίμναι· εἶτʼ Ἀλωπεκόννησος, εἰς ἣν τελευτᾷ μάλιστα ὁ Μέλας κόλπος· εἶτʼ ἄκρα μεγάλη Μαζουσία· εἶτʼ ἐν κόλπῳ Ἐλαιοῦς, ὅπου τὸ Πρωτεσιλάειον, καθʼ ὃ τὸ Σίγειον ἀπὸ τετταράκοντα σταδίων ἐστίν, ἄκρα τῆς Τρῳάδος· καὶ σχεδὸν τοῦτʼ ἔστι τὸ νοτιώτατον ἄκρον τῆς Χερρονήσου, σταδίους μικρῷ πλείους τῶν τετρακοσίων ἀπὸ Καρδίας· καὶ οἱ λοιποὶ δʼ ἐπὶ θάτερον μέρος τοῦ ἰσθμοῦ μικρῷ τοῦ διαστήματος τούτου πλείους περιπλέοντι. E.
At the mouth of the Hebrus, which discharges itself by two channels, in the Gulf of Melas, is a city Aenos, founded by the Mitylenaeans and Cumaeans; its first founders, however, were Alopeconnesi; then the promontory Sarpedon; then the Chersonesus, called the Thracian Chersonesus, forming the Propontis, the Gulf of Melas, and the Hellespont. It stretches forwards to the south-east, like a promontory, bringing Europe and Asia together, with only a strait between them of 7 stadia in width, the Strait of Sestos and Abydos. On the left is the Propontis, on the right the Gulf Melas, so called from the river Melas, which discharges itself into it, according to Herodotus and Eudoxus. It is stated (says Strabo) by Herodotus, that the stream of this river was not sufficient to supply the army of Xerxes. The above promontory is closed in by an isthmus 40 stadia across. In the middle of the isthmus is situated the city Lysimachia, named after king Lysimachus, its founder. On one side of the isthmus, on the Gulf Melas, lies Cardia; its first founders were Milesians and Clazomenaeans, its second founders Athenians. It is the largest of the cities in the Chersonesus. Pactya is on the Propontis. After Cardia are Drabus and Limnae; then Alopeconnesus, where the Gulf Melas principally ends; then the great promontory Mazusia; then, in the gulf, Eleus, where is Protesilaum, from whence Sigeum, a promontory of Troas, is 40 stadia distant; this is about the most southern extremity of the Chersonesus, distant from Cardia rather more than 400 stadia; if the circuit is made by sea to the other side of the isthmus, the distance is a little greater. E.
ὅτι ἡ ἐν Θρᾴκῃ Χερρόνησος τρεῖς ποιεῖ θαλάσσας· Προποντίδα ἐκ βορρᾶ, Ἑλλήσποντον ἐξ ἀνατολῶν καὶ τὸν Μέλανα κόλπον ἐκ νότου, ὅπου καὶ ὁ Μέλας ποταμὸς ἐκβάλλει, ὁμώνυμος τῷ κόλπῳ. Epit.
The Thracian Chersonesus forms three seas, the Propontis to the north, the Hellespont to the east, and the Gulf Melas to the south, where the river Melas, of the same name as the gulf, discharges itself. EPIT.
ὅτι ἐν τῷ ἰσθμῷ τῆς Χερρονήσου τρεῖς πόλεις κεῖνται· πρὸς μὲν τῷ Μέλανι κόλπῳ Καρδία, πρὸς δὲ τῇ Προποντίδι Πακτύη, πρὸς δὲ τῇ μεσογαίᾳ Λυσιμάχεια· μῆκος τοῦ ἰσθμοῦ στάδια τετταράκοντα. Epit.
In the isthmus of the Chersonesus are three cities, Cardia on the Gulf of Melas, Pactya on the Propontis, Lysimachia in the interior; the breadth of the isthmus is 40 stadia. EPIT.
ὅτι ἡ πόλις ὁ Ἐλεοῦς ἀρσενικῶς λέγεται· τάχα δὲ καὶ ὁ Τραπεζοῦς. Epit.
The name of the city Eleus is of the masculine gender, perhaps that of Trapezus is also masculine. EPIT.
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