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It is not generally admitted that Homer was from Cyme, for many dispute about him.
The name of the city was derived from an Amazon, as that
of Myrina was the name of an Amazon, buried under the
Batieia in the plain of Troy;
men call this Batieia; but the immortals, the tomb of the bounding
Myrina. note
Ephorus is bantered, because, having no achievements of
his countrymen to commemorate among the other exploits in
his history, and yet being unwilling to pass them over unnoticed, he exclaims,
at this time the Cymaeans were at peace.
After having described the Trojan and Aeolian coasts, we ought next to notice cursorily the interior of the country as far as Mount Taurus, observing the same order.
PERGAMUM note has a kind of supremacy among these places. It is a city of note, and flourished during a long period under the Attalic kings; and here we shall begin our description, premising a short account of her kings, their origin, and the end of their career.
Pergamum was the treasure-hold of Lysimachus, the son of Agathocles, and one of the successors of Alexander. It is situated on the very summit of the mountain which terminates in a sharp peak like a pine-cone. Phileterus of Tyana was intrusted with the custody of this strong-hold, and of the treasure, which amounted to nine thousand talents. He became an eunuch in childhood by compression, for it happened that a great body of people being assembled to see a funeral, the nurse who was carrying Philetaerus, then an infant, in her arms, was entangled in the crowd, and pressed upon to such a degree that the child was mutilated.
He was therefore an eunuch, but having been well educated he was thought worthy of this trust. He continued for
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Strabo, Geography (English) (XML Header) [genre: prose] [word count] [lemma count] [Str.].
