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But Seleucus, after destroying Antigonia, made the Athenians who were inhabiting Antigonia move to the city which he founded, Antioch the great; whom Antigonus, with Demetrius his son, had left there, and other Macedonian men, 5300 men in all, the same Seleucus having made in Antioch the great a formidable bronze statue of Athena on account of the Athenians, as they worshipped her. And he also brought down the Cretans from the acropolis, whom Kasos the son of Inachos had allowed to dwell up there; who, having moved to the same Antioch along with the Cyprians, since king Kasos had married Amyke, also called Kitia, the daughter of Sasalaminos the king of the Cyp- 202 rians; and Cyprians came with her and inhabited the acropolis; and Amyke died, and was buried 100 stades from the city, for which reason the land was called Amyke. And the same Seleucus also urged the Argive Ionians, and he brought them down from Iopolis to dwell in the same Antioch; whom he made citizens as being priestly and noble. And the same Seleucus also set up before the city a stone statue to the eagle. And the same one also commanded that the months of Syria be named according to the Macedonians, because he found that giants had dwelt in the same land; for at a distance of two miles from the city of Antioch there is a place, having the bodies of men petrified by the wrath of a god, whom they call giants to this day; and likewise also a certain Pagras so called, a giant dwelling in the same land, was struck by lightning, so that it is clear that the Antiochenes of Syria dwell in the land of the giants. And the same Seleucus made before the city beyond the river another statue of a horse's head and a gilded helmet nearby, having inscribed on them, 'On which Seleucus, fleeing Antigonus, was saved; and returning from there he destroyed him.' And the same Seleucus also erected a marble stele to Amphion inside the so-called Romanesian gate, as he was making a bird-sacrifice with him. And the same Seleucus Nicator also founded another coastal city in Syria by the name of Lao- 203 dicea in the name of his daughter, it being formerly a village named Mazabdan, having made a sacrifice to Zeus according to custom, and having asked where he should found the city, an eagle came again and snatched from the sacrifice; and while pursuing the eagle, a great wild boar met him, having come out of a reed-bed, which he killed with the spear he was holding; and having killed the wild boar and dragging its remains, from its blood he traced the walls, letting the eagle go; and thus he founded the same city upon the blood of the wild boar, having sacrificed an unblemished maiden named Agaue, making for her a bronze stele for the fortune of the same city. And the same Seleucus Nicator also founded another great city in Syria in the name of his daughter Apama, having found a village formerly called Pharnake; and having walled it, the same Seleucus named it a city, calling it Apamea, having made a sacrifice; which he himself renamed with the name Pella because the fortune of the same city of Apamea had this name; for the same Seleucus was from Pella, the city of Macedonia. And he made a sacrifice of a bull and a goat; and coming again, the eagle took up the heads of the bull and the goat; and he traced the walls with the blood. And the same Seleucus also founded many other different cities in other provinces and in the Persian parts, the number of which is 75, as the wise Pausanias the chronographer wrote, of which cities he also set out the names, in 204 his own name and those of his children, as it seemed good to him, Seleucus. But the wise Pausanias set out that the same Seleucus gave the name of the great Antioch in the name of his own father, since his father was also called Antiochus.

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Ὁ δὲ Σέλευκος μετὰ τὸ καταστρέψαι τὴν Ἀντιγονίαν ἐποίησε μετοικῆσαι τοὺς Ἀθηναίους εἰς ἣν ἔκτισε πόλιν Ἀντιόχειαν τὴν μεγάλην τοὺς οἰκοῦντας τὴν Ἀντιγονίαν· οὕστινας ἦν ἐκεῖ ἐάσας Ἀντίγονος μετὰ ∆ημητρίου, υἱοῦ αὐτοῦ, καὶ ἄλλους δὲ ἄνδρας Μακεδόνας, τοὺς πάντας ἄνδρας ετʹ, ποιήσας ὁ αὐτὸς Σέλευκος ἐν Ἀντιοχείᾳ τῇ μεγάλῃ ἀνδριάντα χαλκοῦν φοβερὸν τῆς Ἀθήνης διὰ τοὺς Ἀθηναίους, ὡς αὐτὴν σεβομένους. κατήγαγε δὲ καὶ τοὺς Κρῆτας ἀπὸ τῆς ἀκροπόλεως, οὓς εἴασεν ὁ Κάσος ὁ υἱὸς Ἰνάχου ἄνω οἰκεῖν· οἵτινες μετοικήσαντες εἰς τὴν αὐτὴν Ἀντιόχειαν μετὰ καὶ τῶν Κυπρίων, ἐπειδὴ ὁ Κάσος βασιλεὺς ἠγάγετο Ἀμυκὴν τὴν καὶ Κιτίαν, θυγατέρα Σασαλαμίνου τοῦ Κυ 202 πρίων βασιλέως· καὶ ἦλθον μετ' αὐτῆς Κύπριοι καὶ ᾤκησαν τὴν ἀκρόπολιν· καὶ τελευτᾷ ἡ Ἀμυκή, καὶ ἐτάφη ἀπὸ σταδίων τῆς πόλεως ρʹ, δι' ἣν ἐκλήθη ἡ χώρα Ἀμυκή. προετρέψατο δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς Σέλευκος καὶ τοὺς Ἀργείους Ἰωνίτας, καὶ κατήγαγε καὶ αὐτοὺς ἐκ τῆς Ἰωπόλεως ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ Ἀντιοχείᾳ οἰκεῖν· οὕστινας ὡς ἱερατικοὺς καὶ εὐγενεῖς πολιτευομένους ἐποίησεν. ἔστησε δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς Σέλευκος καὶ πρὸ τῆς πόλεως ἄγαλμα λίθινον τῷ ἀετῷ. ἐκέλευσε δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς καὶ τοὺς μῆνας τῆς Συρίας κατὰ Μακεδόνας ὀνομάζεσθαι, διότι εὗρεν ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ χώρᾳ γίγαντας οἰκήσαντας· ἀπὸ γὰρ δύο μιλίων τῆς πόλεως Ἀντιοχείας ἐστὶ τόπος, ἔχων σώματα ἀνθρώπων ἀπολιθωθέντων κατὰ ἀγανάκτησιν θεοῦ, οὕστινας ἕως τῆς νῦν καλοῦσι γίγαντας· ὡσαύτως δὲ καὶ Παγράν τινα οὕτω καλούμενον γίγαντα ἐν τῇ αὐτῇ οἰκοῦντα γῇ κεραυνωθῆναι ὑπὸ πυρός, ὡς δῆλον ὅτι οἱ Ἀντιοχεῖς τῆς Συρίας ἐν τῇ γῇ οἰκοῦσι τῶν γιγάντων. ἐποίησε δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς Σέλευκος πρὸ τῆς πόλεως πέραν τοῦ ποταμοῦ ἄλλο ἄγαλμα κεφαλῆς ἵππου καὶ κασσίδα κεχρυσωμένην πλησίον, ἐπιγράψας ἐν αὐτοῖς, Ἐφ' οὗ φυγὼν ὁ Σέλευκος τὸν Ἀντίγονον διεσώθη· καὶ ὑποστρέψας ἐκεῖθεν ἀνεῖλεν αὐτόν. ἀνήγειρε δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς Σέλευκος καὶ τῷ Ἀμφίονι στήλην μαρμαρίνην ἔσω τῆς λεγομένης Ῥωμανησίας πόρτας, ὀρνεοθυσίαν ποιοῦντι ἅμα αὐτῷ. ἔκτισε δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς Σέλευκος ὁ Νικάτωρ καὶ ἄλλην παραλίαν πόλιν ἐν τῇ Συρίᾳ ὀνόματι Λαο 203 δίκειαν εἰς ὄνομα τῆς αὐτοῦ θυγατρός, πρῴην οὖσαν κώμην ὀνόματι Μαζαβδάν, ποιήσας κατὰ τὸ ἔθος θυσίαν τῷ ∆ιί, καὶ αἰτησάμενος ποῦ κτίσει τὴν πόλιν, ἦλθεν ἀετὸς πάλιν καὶ ἥρπασεν ἀπὸ τῆς θυσίας· καὶ ἐν τῷ καταδιώκειν αὐτὸν τὸν ἀετὸν ὑπήντησεν αὐτῷ σύαγρος μέγας, ἐξελθὼν ἀπὸ καλαμῶνος, ὅντινα ἀνεῖλεν ᾧτινι κατεῖχε δόρατι· καὶ φονεύσας τὸν σύαγρον καὶ σύρας τὸ λείψανον αὐτοῦ, ἐκ τοῦ αἵματος αὐτοῦ διεχάραξε τὰ τείχη ἐάσας τὸν ἀετόν· καὶ οὕτως τὴν αὐτὴν πόλιν ἔκτισεν ἐπάνω τοῦ αἵματος τοῦ συάγρου, θυσιάσας κόρην ἀδαῆ ὀνόματι Ἀγαύην, ποιήσας αὐτῇ στήλην χαλκῆν εἰς τύχην τῆς αὐτῆς πόλεως. ἔκτισε δὲ ὁ αὐτὸς Σέλευκος ὁ Νικάτωρ καὶ ἄλλην πόλιν εἰς τὴν Συρίαν μεγάλην εἰς ὄνομα τῆς αὐτοῦ θυγατρὸς Ἀπάμας, εὑρηκὼς κώμην πρῴην λεγομένην Φαρνάκην· καὶ τειχίσας αὐτὴν ὁ αὐτὸς Σέλευκος ἐπωνόμασε πόλιν, καλέσας αὐτὴν Ἀπάμειαν, θυσίαν ποιήσας· ἣν αὐτὸς μετεκάλεσεν ὀνόματι Πέλλαν διὰ τὸ ἔχειν τὴν τύχην τῆς αὐτῆς Ἀπαμείας πόλεως τὸ ὄνομα τοῦτο· ἦν γὰρ ὁ αὐτὸς Σέλευκος ἀπὸ Πέλλης τῆς πόλεως Μακεδονίας. ἐποίησε δὲ θυσίαν ταῦρον καὶ τράγον· καὶ ἐλθὼν πάλιν ὁ ἀετὸς ἐπῆρε τὰς κεφαλὰς τοῦ ταύρου καὶ τοῦ τράγου· καὶ περιεχάραξεν ἐκ τοῦ αἵματος τὰ τείχη. ἔκτισε δὲ καὶ ἄλλας διαφόρους πόλεις εἰς ἄλλας ἐπαρχίας καὶ εἰς τὰ Περσικὰ μέρη ὁ αὐτὸς Σέλευκος πολλάς, ὧν ἀριθμός ἐστιν οεʹ, καθὼς ὁ σοφὸς Παυσανίας ὁ χρονογράφος συνεγράψατο, ὧντινων πόλεων καὶ τὰ ὀνόματα ἐξέθετο, εἰς 204 ὄνομα ἴδιον καὶ τῶν αὐτοῦ τέκνων, ὡς ἔδοξεν αὐτῷ, ὁ Σέλευκος ὁ δὲ σοφὸς Παυσανίας ἐξέθετο εἰς ὄνομα τοῦ ἑαυτοῦ πατρὸς ἔθηκε τὸ ὄνομα τῆς μεγάλης Ἀντιοχείας ὁ αὐτὸς Σέλευκος, ἐπειδὴ καὶ ὁ αὐτοῦ πατὴρ Ἀντίοχος ἐλέγετο.