Kitap 14
5.19
Next to Aegaeae is Issus, a small town with a shelter for vessels, and a river, the Pinarus.Deli-tschai. At Issus the battle was fought between Alexander and Darius. The bay is called the Issic Bay. The city RhosusArsus. is situated upon it, as also the city Myriandrus, Alexandreia,Iskenderun. Nicopolis, Mopsuestia,Its name under the Byzantine empire was corrupted to Mampsysta, or Mamista; of which names the modern Mensis appears to be a further corruption.—Leake. and the Gates,The passage is defended by the fortress of Merkes. as they are called, which are the boundary between Cilicia and Syria.
5.19
In Cilicia are the temple of the Sarpedonian Artemis and an oracle. Persons possessed with divine inspiration deliver the oracles.
5.20
After Cilicia, the first Syrian city is Seleucia-in-Pieria;Suveidijeh. near it the river OrontesNahr-el-Asy. empties itself. From Seleucia to Soli is a voyage in a straight line of nearly 1000 stadia.
5.21
Since the Cilicians of the Troad, whom Homer mentions, are situated at a great distance from the Cilicians without the Taurus, some writers declare that the leaders of the latter colony were Cilicians of the Troad, and point to Thebe and Lyrnessus in Pamphylia, places bearing the same name as those in the Troad; other authors are of a contrary opinion, and (considering the Cilicians of the Troad as descendants of those from beyond the Taurus) point to an Aleian plain (in support of their hypothesis).
