Kitap 12
8.21
The names of some Phrygian tribes, as the Berecyntes [and Cerbesii], are mentioned, which no longer exist. And Aleman says, He played the Cerbesian, a Phrygian air. They speak also of a Cerbesian pit which sends forth destructive exhalations; this however exists, but the people have no longer the name of Cerbesii. Aeschylus in his NiobeThe Niobe, a lost tragedy of Sophocles, is often quoted; this is probaliy here meant. confounds them; Niobe says that she shall remember Tantalus, and his story; those who have an altar of Jupiter, their paternal god, on the Idaean hill, and again; Sipylus in the Idaean land, —and Tantalus says, I sow the furrows of the Berecynthian fields, extending twelve days’ journey, where the seat of Adrasteia and Ida resound with the lowing of herds and the bleating of sheep; all the plain re-echoes with their cries.
