LIBER VI · CAPUT 6
THE CIMMERIAN BOSPORUS
Latine · Mayhoff 1906
inde ad Bospori Cimmerii introitum LXXXVIII.D.
Sed ipsius paeninsulae inter Pontum et Maeotium lacum excurrentis non amplior LXVII.D p. longitude est, latitudo nusquam infra duo iugera; Eonem vocant. ora ipsa Bospori utrimque ex Asia atque Europa curvatur in Maeotim. oppida in aditu [Bospori primo] Hermonasa, dein Cepoe Milesiorum, mox Stratoclia et Phanagoria ac paene desertum Apaturos ultumoque in ostio Cimmerium, quod antea Chimerion voeabatur.
English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57
From thence to the entrance of the Cimmerian Bosporus the distance is eighty-eight miles and a half.
The length of the peninsula which projects between the Euxine and Lake Mæotis, is not more than sixty-seven miles and a half, and the width across never less than two jugera: it has the name of Eion. The shores of the Bosporus then take a curve both on the side of Europe and of Asia, thus forming the Mæotis. The towns at the entrance of the Bosporus are, first Hermonassa, next Cepi, founded by the Milesians, and then Stratoclia and Phanagoria, and the almost deserted town of Apaturos, and, at the extremity of the mouth, Cimmerium, which was formerly called Cerberion.