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Upon the adjoining coast is Caria [Note], then Ionia, and beyond it Æolis. Caria surrounds Doris, which lies in the middle, and runs down on both sides of it to the sea. In it [Note] is the Promontory of Pedalium [Note], the river Glaucus [Note], into which the Telmedium [Note] discharges itself, the towns of Dædala [Note], Crya [Note], peopled by fugitives, the river Axon [Note], and the town of Calynda [Note].
(28.) The river Indus [Note], which rises in the mountains of the Cibyratæ [Note], receives sixty-five rivers which are constantly flowing, besides upwards of 100 mountain torrents. Here is the free town of Caunos [Note], then the town of Pyrnos [Note], the port of Cressa [Note], from which the island of Rhodes is distant twenty miles; the place where Loryma formerly stood, the towns of Tisanusa [Note], Paridion [Note], and Larymna [Note], the Gulf of Thymnias [Note], the Promontory of Aphrodisias [Note], the town of Hyda, the Gulf of Schœnus, and the district of Bubasus [Note]. There was formerly the town of Acanthus here, another
name of which was Dulopolis. We then come to Cnidos [Note], a free town, situate on a promontory, Triopia [Note], and after that the towns of Pegusa and Stadia.
At this last town Doris begins; but, first, it may be as well to describe the districts that lie to the back of Caria and the several jurisdictions in the interior. The first of these [Note] is called Cibyratica; Cibyra being a town of Phrygia. Twenty-five states resort to it for legal purposes, together with the most famous city of Laodicea [Note].
(29.) This place at first bore the name of Diospolis, and after that of Rhoas, and is situate on the river Lycus, the Asopus and the Caprus [Note] washing its sides. The other people belonging to the same jurisdiction, whom it may be not amiss to mention, are the Hydrelitæ [Note], the Themisones [Note], and the Hierapolitæ [Note]. The second jurisdiction receives its title
from Synnas [Note]; to it resort the Lycaones [Note], the Appiani [Note], the Eucarpeni [Note], the Dorylæi [Note], the Midæi, the Julienses [Note], and fifteen other peoples of no note. The third jurisdiction has its seat at Apamea [Note], formerly called Celænæ [Note], and after that Cibotos. This place is situate at the foot of Mount Signia, the Marsyas, the Obrima, and the Orga, rivers which fall into the Mæander, flowing past it. Here the Marsyas, rising from the earth, again makes its appearance, but soon after buries itself once more at Aulocreneæ [Note], the spot where
Marsyas had the musical contest with Apollo as to superiority of skill in playing on the flute. Aulocrenæ is the name given to a valley which lies ten miles on the road towards Phrygia from Apamea. As belonging to this jurisdiction, it may be as well to mention the Metropolitæ [Note], the Dionysopolitæ [Note], th>e Euphorbeni [Note], the Aemonenses [Note], the Pelteni [Note], and the Silbiani [Note], besides nine other nations of no note.
Upon the Gulf of Doris [Note] we have Leucopolis, Hamaxitos, Eleus, and Euthene [Note]. We then come to Pitaium, Eutane [Note], and Halicarnassus [Note], towns of Caria. To the jurisdiction of this last place six towns were appended by Alexander the Great, Theangela [Note], Sibde, Medmasa, Euralium, Pedasus, and Telmissus [Note]. Halicarnassus lies between two gulfs, those of Ceramus [Note] and Iasus [Note]. We then come to Myn-
dos [Note], and the former site of Palæomyndos; also Nariandos,
Neapolis [Note], Caryanda [Note], the free town of Termera [Note], Bargyla [Note],
and the town of Iasus [Note]
Caria is especially distinguished for the fame of its places in the interior; for here are Mylasa [Note], a free town, and that of Antiochia [Note], on the site of the former towns of Symmæthos and Cranaos: it is now surrounded by the rivers Mæander [Note] and Orsinus [Note]. In this district also was formerly Mæandropolis [Note]; we find also Eumenia [Note], situate on the river Cludros, the river Glaucus [Note], the town of Lysias and Orthosa [Note],
the district of Berecynthus [Note], Nysa [Note], and Tralles [Note], also called Euanthia [Note], Seleucia, and Antiochia: it is washed by the river Eudon, while the Thebais runs through it. Some authors say that a nation of Pygmies formerly dwelt here. Besides the preceding towns, there are Thydonos, Pyrrha [Note], Eurome [Note], Heraclea [Note], Amyzon [Note], the free town of Alabanda [Note], which has given name to that jurisdiction, the free town of Stratonicea [Note], Hynidos, Ceramus [Note], Trœzene [Note], and Phorontis.
At a greater distance [Note], but resorting to the same place of jurisdiction, are the Orthronienses, the Alindienses [Note] or Hippini, the Xystiani [Note], the Hydissenses, the Apolloniataæ [Note], the Trapezopolitæ [Note], and the Aphrodisienses [Note], a free people. Besides the above, there are the towns of Coscinus [Note], and Harpasa [Note], situate on the river Harpasus [Note], which also passed the town of Trallicon when it was in existence.
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