Kitap 9
4.13
Now the pass is called not only “Pylae” and “Narrows,” but also “Thermopylae,”“Hot-gates.” for there are hot waters near it that are held in honor as sacred to Heracles; and the mountain that lies above it is called Callidromus, but by some the remaining part of the mountain, which extends through Aetolia and Acarnania to the Ambracian Gulf, is also called Callidromus. Near Thermopylae, inside the narrows, are forts—Nicaea, towards the sea of the Locrians, and above it, Teichius and Heracleia, the latter in earlier times having been called Trachin, a settlement of Lacedaemonians. Heracleia is about six stadia distant from the old Trachin. Next one comes to Rhoduntia, a natural stronghold.
4.14
These places are rendered difficult of access both by the ruggedness of the country and by the number of streams of water which here form ravines through which they flow. For besides the Spercheius, which flows past Anticyra, there is the Dyras River, which, they say, tried to quench the funeral pyre of Heralces, and also another See Book 7, Fr. 52. Melas, which is five stadia distant from Trachin. To the south of Trachin, according to Herodotus,7. 198, 200. there is a deep gorge through which the Asopus, bearing the same name as the aforesaid Asopus Rivers,8. 6. 24 and 9. 2. 23. empties into the sea outside Pylae after receiving the Phoenix River, which meets it from the south and bears the name of the hero Phoenix, whose tomb is to be seen near it. The distance from the Asopus to Thermopylae is fifteen stadia.
