Book 7
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On this voyage along the coast of the Chersonesus after leaving Eleus, one comes first to the entrance which leads through the narrows into the Propontis; and this entrance is called the beginning of the Hellespont. And here is the cape called the Cynos-Sema;i.e., “Bitch’s Monument”; according to one story Hecabe (Hecuba) was metamorphosed into a bitch. though some call it Hecabe’s Sema, and in fact her tomb is pointed out after one has doubled the cape. Then one comes to Madytus, and to Cape Sestias, where the pontoon bridge of Xerxes was built; and, after these, to Sestus. The distance from Eleus to the place of the pontoon-bridge is one hundred and seventy stadia. After Sestus one comes to Aegospotami, eightyThe text reads “two hundred and eighty,” but this is clearly an error of the copyist. stadia, a town which has been razed to the ground, where it is said, the stoneOn this meteor, see Aristot. Meterologica 1.7, and Pliny Nat. Hist. 2.58 fell at the time of the Persian war. Then comes Callipolis,Now Gallipoli. from which the distance across to Lampsacus in Asia is forty stadia; then Crithote, a little town which has been razed to the ground; then Pactye; then Macron Teichos,”“Long Wall.” Leuce Acte,“White Strand.” Hieron Oros,“Sacred Mountain.” and Perinthus, founded by the Samians: then Selybria.Also spelled “Selymbria.” Above these places lies Silta;What is now Schandu, apparently. and the Hieron Oros is revered by all the natives and is a sort of acropolis of the country. The Hieron Oros discharges asphalt into the sea, near the place where the Proconnesus,Now the Isle of Marmara. only one hundred and twenty stadia distant, is nearest to the land; and the quarry of white marble in the Proconnesus is both large and excellent. After Selybria come the Rivers Athyras and Bathynias; and then, Byzantium and the places which come in order thereafter as far as the Cyanean Rocks.
