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into another, but all discharge themselves into the Caïcus.
The Caïcus does not flow from Ida, as Bacchylides says, nor
does Euripides say correctly that Marsyas
inhabited the famous Celaenae, at the extremity of Ida,
for Celaenae is at a great distance from Ida, and so are the
sources of the Caïcus, for they are to be seen in the plain.
There is a mountain, Temnum, which separates this and
the plain of Asia; it lies in the interior above the plain of
Thebe. A river, Mysius, flows from Temnum and enters
the Caïcus below its source. Hence some persons suppose
that Aeschylus refers to it in the beginning of the prologue
to the play of the Myrmidons,
Caïcus, and ye Mysian streams—
Near its source is a village called Gergitha, to which Attalus
transferred the inhabitants of Gergitha in the Troad, after
destroying their own stronghold.
SINCE Lesbos, a very remarkable island, lies along and opposite to the sea-coast, extending from Lectum to Canae, and since it is surrounded by small islands, some of which lie beyond it, others in the space between Lesbos and the continent, it is now proper to describe them, because they are Aeolian places, and Lesbos is, as it were, the capital of the Aeolian cities. We shall begin where we set out to describe the coast opposite to the island. 2
In sailing from Lectum to Assos the Lesbian district
begins opposite to Sigrium, note its northern promontory. Somewhere there is Methymna, note a city of the Lesbians, 60 stadia
from the coast, between Polymedium and Assos. The whole
island is
From Methymna to Malia, note the most southern promontory to those who have the island on their right hand, and to which Canae note lies directly opposite, are 340 stadia. Thence
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