Letter 155: Orion should have written about Berytus, the Hellespont, the Propontis, and the Bosporus.

I would not have thought I could receive such a letter from you, or be held answerable for silence by people who do not even know where on land or sea they have arrived. But it seems that, fleeing the accusation still to come, you chose to accuse rather than answer me. You should first have reported: "I have left Berytus," "I have measured a great sea," "I sailed past the islands and saw the Hellespont, escorted on both continents by wonders; passing the Propontis, I reached the Bosporus itself. There I saw a city meeting those who sail in with an astonishing sight. Lying on the neck of the land, it looks over Asia while set before Europe, and, marking off the Pontus from the rest of the sea, sends its wonders along." You should have written this and whatever else those who have seen that place are used to babbling artlessly, striking our ears with amazement. If you had written such things and I had been silent, then I would rightly be subject to charges. But now you were silent, disregarded the law of voyagers, and begin the case with me, moving your tongue like an advocate. Only write. Even if you write accusations, I will endure them.