BOOK V. xx\ix. 140-XL. 142 



on Lesbos are Lepetymnus, Ordymnus, Macistus, 

 Creone and Olympus. It is 7| miles distant from 

 the nearest point of the mainland. Adjacent islands 

 are Sandalium and the five Leucae, which include 

 Cydonea with its hot sprinc^ ; four miles from Aege " 

 are the Arginussae and then Phellusa and Pedna. 

 Outside the Dardanelles and opposite the coast of 

 Sigeimi Hes Tenedos, also called Leucophrys and 

 Phoenice and Lyrnesos ; it is 56 miles from Lesbos 

 and 12| from Sigeum. 



XL. Here the current of the Dardanelles becomes riie 

 stronger, and comes into coUision with the sea, under- anTMysia. 

 mining the bar with its eddies until it separates Asia 

 from Europe. We have already given the name of §127. 

 the promontory here as Trapeza. Ten miles from 

 it is the town of Abydus, where the strait is only 

 7 furlongs wide ; then the town of Percote, and 

 Lampsacus formerly called Pityusa, the colony 

 of Parium, called by Homer* Adrastia, the tow^i of 

 Priapos, the river Aesepus, Zeha, and the Sea of 

 Marmara (the name given to the Straits where the 

 sea widens out), the river Granicus and the harbour 

 of Artace, where there once was a town. Beyond is 

 the island which Alexander joined to the mainland 

 and on which is the Milesian town of Cyzicus, 

 formerly called Arctonnesus and DoUonis and 

 Didymis ; above it is Mount Didymus. Then the 

 towns of Placia, Ariace and Scylace, and in their 

 rear the mountain called the Mysian Olympus and 

 the city-state of Olympena. The rivers are the 

 Horisius and the Ilhyndacus, formerly callcd tlie 

 Lycus : this riscs in the marsli of Artynia near 

 MiletopoHs, and into it flow the Macestos and several 

 other rivers ; it forms the boundary between Asia 



