Kitap 14
1.45
Thirty stadia from Nysa, after one crosses over Mt. Tmolus and the mountain called Mesogis, towards the region to the south of the Mesogis,The text, which seems to be corrupt, is recast and emended by Groskurd to read, “having crossed the Mesogis towards the region to the south of Tmolus.” But the simple rectification of the text made by the present translator solves the difficulty quite as well. there is a place called Leimon,i.e., meadow. whither the Nysaeans and all the people about go to celebrate their festivals. And not far from Leimon is an entrance into the earth sacred to the same gods, which is said to extend down as far as Acharaca. The poet is said to name this meadow when he says, “On the Asian meadow”; and they point out a hero-temple of Caÿster and a certain Asius, and the Caÿster River that streams forth near by.
1.46
The story is told that three brothers, Athymbrus and Athymbradus and Hydrelus, who came from Lacedaemon, founded the three cities which were named after them, but that the cities later became scantily populated, and that the city Nysa was founded by their inhabitants; but that Athymbrus is now regarded by them as their original founder.
1.47
Near Nysa, on the far side of the Maeander River, are situated noteworthy settlements; I mean Coscinia and Orthosia; and this side the river, Briula, Mastaura and Acharaca, and above the city, on the mountain, Aroma (in which the letter rhoApparently an error for “in which name the letter omega is shortened to omicron (cp. the well-known Greek word Aroma, which may mean either “spice” or “arable land.”) is short), whence comes the best Mesogitan wine, I mean the Aromian.
