Lycia

the bravest of the Achaeans is wounded, and he will not hold out much longer if King Apollo was indeed with me when I sped from Lycia hither.

I have come from afar, even from Lycia and the banks of the river Xanthos, where I have left my wife, my infant son, and much wealth to tempt whoever is needy;

my old father Lykaon urged me again and again when I was at home and on the point of starting, to take chariots and horses with me that I might lead the Trojans in battle, but I would not listen to him;

and I had much thanks to God, if any at all in the Asian region are outside the harm of the heretics.

but now I remind you of it, that you would deign to send an earnest man into Lycia, to inspect who they are that hold the right faith.

no single spot in all the world remains whither one might steer a course, either to Lycia or to the parched abodes of Ammon to release the hapless lady’s soul;

Moreover, when he had sailed to Lycia and died there, this woman, a few days after the news of his death, was sacrificing and holding festival, and had no shame before his surviving brother, so little regard did she have for the dead man, but I instituted mourning for him in the custom prescribed for relatives.

Lycia no Persian has ever subdued.

And the Danaans trembled before Glaucus, when he came from Lycia;

In Lycia there is a most famous region, called Hephaestion by the inhabitants, with the ground pierced in several places, which a harmless fire wanders round without any damage to growing things.