Greek Texts & Translations

nesus. Myonnesus is situated upon high ground resembling a peninsula. 30

Teos is situated upon a peninsula, and has a port. Anacreon, the lyric poet, was a native of this place; in his time, the Teians, unable to endure the insults and injuries of the Persians, abandoned Teos, and removed to Abdera, whence originated the verse— Abdera, the beautiful colony of the Teians. Some of them returned in after-times to their own country. We have said that Apellicon was of Teos, and Hecataeus also, the historian.

There is another port to the north, at the distance of 30 stadia from the city, Gerrhaeïdae. ^note 31

Next follows Chalcideis, and the isthmus of the peninsula ^note of the Teians and Erythraeans; the latter inhabit the interior of the isthmus. The Teians and Clazomenians are situated on the isthmus itself. The Teians occupy the southern side of the isthmus, namely, Chalcideis; ^note the Clazomenians, the northern side, whence they are contiguous to the Erythraean district. At the commencement of the isthmus is Hypocremnus, having on this side the Erythraean, and on the other, the Clazomenian territory. Above Chalcideis is a grove, dedicated to Alexander, the son of Philip, and a festival called Alexandreia is proclaimed and celebrated there by the common body of the Ionians.

The passage across the isthmus from the Alexandrine grove and Chalcideis, as far as the Hypocremnus, is 50 stadia (150?). The circuit round by sea is more than 1000 stadia. Somewhere about the middle of the voyage is Erythrae, ^note an Ionian city, with a port, having in front four small islands, called Hippoi (the Horses). 32

But before we come to Erythrae, the first place we meet with is Erae, ^note a small city belonging to the Teians.

Next is Corycus, a lofty mountain; and below it, Casystes, a port; ^note then another, called the port of Erythrae, and afterwards many others.