Book 13
1.16
On the coasting voyage from Parium to Priapus lie both the old Proconnesus and the present Proconnesus, the latter having a city and also a great quarry of white marble that is very highly commended; at any rate, the most beautiful works of arti.e., buildings, statues, and other marble structures (see 5. 2. 5 and 5. 3. 8, and the footnotes on “works of art”). in the cities of that part of the world, and especially those in Cyzicus, are made of this marble. Aristeas was a Proconnesian—the author of the Arimaspian Epic, as it is called—a charlatan if ever there was one.See 1. 2. 10, and Hdt. 4.13
1.17
As for “the mountain of Tereia,”The mountain mentioned in the Hom. Il. 2.829 some say that it is the range of mountains in Peirossus which are occupied by the Cyziceni and are adjacent to Zeleia, where a royal hunting ground was arranged by the Lydians, and later by the Persians;Xen. Hell. 4.1.15 speaks of royal hunting grounds, “some in enclosed parks, others in open regions.” but others point out a hill forty stadia from Lampsacus, on which there is a temple sacred to the mother of the gods, entitled “Tereia’s” temple.
