LIBER VI · CAPUT 2
PAPHLAGONIA
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
ultra quem gens Paphlagonia, quam Pylaemeniam aliqui dixerunt, inclusam a tergo Galatia, oppidum Mastya Milesiorum, dein Cromna, quo loco Enetos adicit Nepos Cornelius, a quibus in Italia ortos cognomines eorum Venetos credi debere putat, Sesamon oppidum, quod nunc Amastris, mons Cytorus, a Tio LXIII p., oppida Cimolis, Stephane, amnis Parthenius. promunturium Carambis vasto excursu abest a Ponti ostio CCCXXVaut, ut aliis placuit, CCCL, tantundem a Cimmerio aut, ut aliqui maluere, CCCXII. D. fuit et oppidum eodem nomine et aliud inde Armine, nunc est colonia Sinope, a CytoroCLXIIII, flumen Varecum, gens Cappadocum, oppidum CaturiaGazelum, amnis Halys, a radicibus Tauri per Cataoniam Cappadociamque decurrens, oppida Gangre, Carusa, Amisumliberum, a Sinope CXXX, eiusdemque nominis sinus tanti recessus, ut Asiam paene insulam faciat CChaut amplius per continentem ad Issicum Ciliciae sinum. quo in omni tractu proditur tres tantum gentes Graecas iure dici, Doricam, Ionicam, Aeolicam, ceteras barbarorum esse. Amiso iunctum fuit oppidum Eupatoria, a Mithridate conditum; victo eo utrumque Pompeiopolis appellatum est.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
Beyond this river begins the nation of Paphlagonia, by some writers called Pylæmenia; it is closed in behind by the country of Galatia. In it are Mastya, a town founded by the Milesians, and then Cromna, at which spot Cornelius Nepos also places the Heneti, from whom he would have us believe that the Veneti of Italy, who have a similar name, are descended. The city also of Sesamon, now called Amastris, Mount Cytorus, distant sixty-three miles from Tium, the towns of Cimolis and Stephane, and the river Parthenius. The promontory of Carambis, which extends a great distance into the sea, is distant from the mouth of the Euxine three hundred and twenty-five miles, or, according to some writers, three hundred and fifty, being the same distance from the Cimmerian Bosporus, or, as some persons think, only three hundred and twelve miles. There was formerly also a town of the same name, and another near it called Armene; we now find there the colony of Sinope, distant from Mount Cytorus one hundred and sixty-four miles. We then come to the river Evarchus, and after that a people of the Cappadocians, the towns of Gaziura and Gazelum, the river Halys, which runs from the foot of Mount Taurus through Cataonia and Cappadocia, the towns of Gangre and Carusa, the free town of Amisus, distant from Sinope one hundred and thirty miles, and a gulf of the same name, of such vast extent as to make Asia assume the form of a peninsula, the isthmus of which is only some two hundred miles in breadth, or a little more, across to the gulf of Issus in Cilicia. In all this district there are, it is said, only three races that can rightly be termed Greeks, the Dorians, the Ionians, and the Æolians, all the rest being of barbarian origin. To Amisus was joined the town of Eupatoria, founded by Mithridates: after his defeat they were both included under the name of Pompeiopolis.