Res Gestae

Then swelling on both sides into the form of a half-circle and giving a view of widely separated lands, it laves with the spreading waters of the Propontis,[*](The Sea of Marmora.) on the eastern side Cyzicus[*](On the southern side of the Propontis.) and Dindyma,[*](Named from Mt. Dindymus, in Phrygia, near Pessinus. There is another Mt. Dindymus, five miles north of Cyzicus, and, apparently, a town or village called Dindyma.) where there is a sacred shrine of the Great Mother,[*](Cybele.) and Apamia and Cius, where Hylas was pursued and carried off by the nymph,[*](There is evidently a lacuna here. Lindenbrog suggested ubi Hylam insecuta rapuit nympha. Others refer Hyla to the river near Cius.) and Astacus, in a later age called after King Nicomedes.[*](Nicomedia.) Where it turns to the westward it beats upon the Cherronesus and Aegospotami, where Anaxagoras predicted a rain of stones from heaven,[*](Cf. Pliny, N.H. ii. 149; Strabo, vii. 55 (iii. 377, L.C.L.). It was also famous as the scene of the last battle of the Peloponnesian war.) and Lysimachia and the city which Hercules founded and dedicated to the name of his comrade Perinthus;

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After reaching the extreme end of this part,[*](Here the reference clearly is to the whole of the Propontis.) it again contracts into a narrow strait, and flowing between Europe and Bithynia, passes by Chalcedon, Chrysopolis,[*](Modern Scutari, opposite Constantinople.) and some obscure stations.