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the greater part of Phrygia Epictetus, and a part also of Bithynia, so that it is distant from Nicomedia a little more than 300 stadia, where the river Gallus unites with it. The latter river has its source at Modra in Phrygia on the Hellespont, which is the same country as the Epictetus, and was formerly occupied by the Bithynians.
The Sangarius thus increased in bulk, and navigable, although not so formerly, is the boundary of Bithynia at the part of the coast where it discharges itself. In front of this coast is the island Thynia.
In the territory of Heracleia grows the aconite.
This city is distant from the temple at Chalcedon about
Tieium is now a small town and has nothing remarkable belonging to it, except that it was the birth-place of Philetaerus, the founder of the family of the Attalic kings.
Next is the river Parthenius, flowing through a country
abounding with flowers; from these it obtained its name. note
Its source is in Paphlagonia. Then succeeded Paphlagonia,
and the Heneti. It is a question what Heneti the poet
means, when he says,
the brave Pylaemenes led the Paphlagonians out of the country of the
Heneti, where they have a race of wild mules; note
for at present, they say, no Heneti are to be found in Paphlagonia. Others say that it is a village on the shore distant
ten schoeni from Amastris. But Zenodotus writes the verse
in this manner, From Heneta, and says that it means the
present Amisus. According to others it was a tribe bordering upon the Cappadocians, which engaged in an expedition
with the Cimmerians, and were afterwards driven away into
Adria. But the account most generally received is, that the
Heneti were the most considerable tribe of the Paphlagonians;
that Pylaemenes was descended from it; that a large body of
this people accompanied him to the Trojan war; that when
they had lost their leader they passed over to Thrace upon
the capture of Troy; and in the course of their wanderings
arrived at the present Henetic territory.
Some writers say that both Antenor and his sons participated in this expedition, and settled at the inner recess of the
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Strabo, Geography (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Str.].