Kitap 14
5.2
For the same reason the Parthians, who occupied the parts beyond the Euphrates, became masters of the country; and lastly the Armenians, who also gained possession of the country without the Taurus as far as Phoenicia. They used their utmost to extirpate the power of the kings and all their descendants, but surrendered the command of the sea to the Cilicians.
5.2
The Romans were subsequently compelled to reduce the Cilicians, after their aggrandizement, by war and expeditions, whose progress, however, and advancement they had not obstructed; yet it would be improper to accuse the Romans of neglect, because, being engaged with concerns nearer at hand, they were unable to direct their attention to more distant objects.
5.2
I thought proper to make these remarks in a short digression from my subject.
5.3
Next to the Coracesium is the city Syedra;Syedra probably shared with Coracesium (Alaja), a fertile plain which here borders on the coast. But Syedra is Tzschucke’s emendation of Arsinoë in the text. then Hamaxia,Not mentioned by any other author. a small town upon a hill, with a harbour, to which is brought down timber for ship-building; the greatest part of it consists of cedar. This country seems to produce this tree in abundance. It was on this account that Antony assigned it to Cleopatra, as being capable of furnishing materials for the construction of her fleet.
5.3
Then follows Laertes a fortress, situated upon the crest of a hill, of a pap-like form; a port belongs to it; next, the city Selinus,Selindi. then Cragus, a precipitous rock on the sea-coast; then CharadrusCharadran. a fortress, which has a port (above it is the mountain AndriclusKara-Gedik.) and a rocky shore, called Platanistus, next AnemuriumInamur. a promontory, where the continent approaches nearest to Cyprus, towards the promontory Crommyum,Cape Kormakiti. the passage across being 350 stadia.
