LIBER V · CAPUT 28
CARIA
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
amnis Indus, in Cibyratarum iugis ortus, recipit LX perennes fluvios, torrentes vero amplius centum. oppidum Caunos liberum, dein Pyrnos. portus Cressa, a quo Rhodus insula passuumXX. locus Loryma, oppida Tisanusa, Paridon, Larymna, sinus Thymnias, promunturium Aphrodisias, oppidum Hydas, sinus Schoenus, regio Bubassus. oppidum fuit Acanthus, alio nomine Dulopolis. est in promunturio Cnidos libera, Triopia, dein Pegusa et Stadia appellata. ab ea Doris incipit.
Sed prius terga et mediterraneas iurisdictiones indicasse conveniat. una appellatur Cibyratica; ipsum oppidum Phrygiae est. conveniunt eo XXV civitates, celeberrima urbe Laodicea.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
The river Indus, which rises in the mountains of the Cibyratæ, receives sixty-five rivers which are constantly flowing, besides upwards of 100 mountain torrents. Here is the free town of Caunos, then the town of Pyrnos, the port of Cressa, from which the island of Rhodes is distant twenty miles; the place where Loryma formerly stood, the towns of Tisanusa, Paridion, and Larymna, the Gulf of Thymnias, the Promontory of Aphrodisias, the town of Hyda, the Gulf of Schœnus, and the district of Bubasus. There was formerly the town of Acanthus here, another name of which was Dulopolis. We then come to Cnidos, a free town, situate on a promontory, Triopia, and after that the towns of Pegusa and Stadia.
At this last town Doris begins; but, first, it may be as well to describe the districts that lie to the back of Caria and the several jurisdictions in the interior. The first of these is called Cibyratica, Cibyra being a town of Phrygia. Twenty-five states resort to it for legal purposes, together with the most famous city of Laodicea.