466 PLINT's KATtTBAL HISTOET. [Book V. 



river Pactolus\ also called the Chrysorroas, and the sources 

 of the Tarniis : this famous city, which is situate upon the 

 G-ygaean Lake^, used to be called Hyde^ by the people of 

 Maeonia. This jurisdiction is now called that oi JSardes, 

 and besides the people of the places already mentioned, the 

 following now resort to it — the Macedonian Cadueni^, the 

 Loreni, the Philadelpheni^, the Maeonii, situate on the river 

 Cogamus at the foot of Mount Tmolus, the Tripolitani, who 

 are also called the Antoniopolitse, situate on the banks of 

 the McTander, the Apollonihieritse®, the Mesotimolitse', and 

 some others of no note. 



CHAP. 31. — IONIA. 



Ionia begins at the Grulf of lasos, and has a long winding 

 coast with numerous bays. First comes the Grulf of Basili- 

 cum^, then the Promontory^ and town of Posideum, and the 

 oracle once called the oracle of the Branchidse^", but now of 

 Didymsean Apollo, a distance of twenty stadia from the sea- 

 shore. One hundred and eighty stadia thence is Miletus ^^, 



1 Now called the Sarabat. It was famous for its gold-producing sands. 



2 On the road between Thyatira and Sardes : near it was situate the 

 necropohs of Sardes. 



3 Strabo says that some persons called the citadel only by that name. 

 ^ There was a city of Mysia or Phrygia of the name of Cadus or Cadi ; 



but nothing is known of the place here aUuded to, whose people would 

 appear to have been a colony from Macedonia. 



^ The people of Philadelphia, now Ala- Cher, or the "Fine City," 

 twelve leagues south-east of Sardes, and nine leagues south of Attaha. 



^ So called from the Greek 'AttoXXwj'os Upov, " the temple of Apollo," 

 in the vicinity of wliicli, south-east of Pergamus, their town was probably 

 situate. Nothing is known of these localities. 



' Dwellers in Mesotmolus, a town wliich, from its name, would ap* 

 pear to have been situate on the middle of Mount Tmolus. 



^ Now called the Gulf of Melasso. ^ Now the Cape of Melasso. 



^•^ The remains of the Temple of Didymsean Apollo at Branchidse are 

 BtUl visible to those sailing along the coast. It was in the Milesian ter- 

 ritory, and above the harbour Panormus. The name of the site was 

 probably Didyma or Didymi, but the place was also called Branchidse, I 

 from that being the name of a body of priests who had the care of the 

 temple. We learn from Herodotus that Croesus, king of Lydia, consulted 

 this oracle, and made rich presents to the temple. The temple, of which 

 only two columns are left, was of wliite marble. 



11 The ruins of this important city are difficult to discover on account 



