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Æolis [Note] comes next, formerly known as Mysia, and Troas which is adjacent to the Hellespont. Here, after passing Phocæa, we come to the Ascanian Port, then the spot where Larissa [Note] stood, and then Cyme [Note], Myrina, also called Sebastopolis [Note], and in the interior, Ægæ [Note], Attalia [Note], Posidea, Neon-
tichos [Note], and Temnos [Note]. Upon the shore we come to the river Titanus, and the city which from it derives its name. Grynia [Note] also stood here on an island reclaimed from the sea and joined to the land: now only its harbours are left [Note]. We then come to the town of Elæa [Note], the river Caïcus [Note], which flows from Mysia, the town of Pitane [Note], and the river Canaïus. The following towns no longer exist—Canæ [Note], Lysimachia [Note], Atarnea [Note], Carene [Note], Cisthene [Note], Cilla [Note], Cocylium [Note], Theba [Note], Astyre [Note],
Chrysa [Note], Palæscepsis [Note], Gergitha [Note], and Neandros [Note]. We then come to the city of Perperene [Note], which still survives, the district of Heracleotes, the town of Coryphas [Note], the rivers Grylios and Ollius, the region of Aphrodisias [Note], which formerly had the name of Politice Orgas, the district of Scepsis [Note], and the river Evenus [Note], on whose banks the towns of Lyrnesos [Note] and Miletos have fallen to decay. In this district also is Mount Ida [Note], and on the coast Adramytteos [Note], formerly called Pedasus, which gives its name to the gulf and the jurisdiction so called. The other rivers are the Astron, Cormalos, Crianos, Alabastros, and Hieros, flowing from Mount Ida: in the interior is Mount Gargara [Note],
with a town of the same name. Again, on the coast we meet with Antandros [Note], formerly called Edonis, and after that Cimmeris and Assos, also called Apollonia. The town of Palamedium also formerly stood here. The Promontory of Lecton [Note] separates Æolis from Troas. In Æolis there was formerly the city of Polymedia, as also Chrysa, and a second Larissa. The temple of Smintheus [Note] is still standing; Colone [Note] in the interior has perished. To Adramyttium resort upon matters of legal business the Apolloniatæ [Note], whose town is on the river Rhyndacus [Note], the Erizii [Note], the Miletopolitæ [Note], the Pœmaneni [Note], the Macedonian Asculacæ, the Polichnæi [Note], the Pionitæ [Note], the Cilician Mandacadeni, and, in Mysia, the Abrettini [Note], the people known as the Hellespontii [Note], and others of less note.
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