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by Draco, Draco running into Tmolus, Tmolus into Cadmus \ 

 and Cadmus into Taurus. Leaving Smyrna, the river Hermus 

 forms a tract of plains, and gives them its own name. It 

 rises near Dorylaeum'', a city of Phrygia, and in its course 

 receives several rivers, among them the one called tlie Phryx, 

 which divides Caria from the nation to which it gives 

 name ; also the Hyllus^ and the Cryos, themselves swollen 

 by the rivers of Phrygia, Mysia, and Lydia. At the mouth 

 of the Hermus formerly stood the town of Temnos^ : we 

 now see at the extremity of the gulf^ the rocka called 

 Myrmeces^, the town of Leuce'' on a promontory which 

 was once an island, and Phocaea^, the frontier town of 

 Ionia. 



A great part also of ^olia, of which we shall have pre- 

 sently to speak, has recourse to the jurisdiction of Smyrna ; 

 as well as the Macedones, surnamed Hyrcani'*, and the Mag- 

 netes^" from Sipylus. But to Ephesus, that otlier great lumi- 

 nary of Asia, resort the more distant peoples known as the 



^ It does not appear that all these mountains have been identified. 

 Cadmus is the Baba Dagh of the Tui-ks. 



2 Mentioned in C. 29 of the present Book. 



3 In tlie time of Strabo this tributary of the Hermus seems to have 

 been known as the Plu-ygius. 



■* Its site is now called Menemen, according to D'Anville. The Cryus 

 •was so called fi'om the Greek Kpvos, "cold." 



5 The present Gulf of Smyrna. 



6 Or the "Ants." 



7 Probably so called from the whiteness of the promontory on which 

 it was situate. It was built by Tachos, tlie Persian general, in B.C. 352, 

 and remarkable as the scene of the battle between the Consid Licinius 

 Crassus and Aristonicus in B.C. 131. The modern name of its site ia 

 Lefke. 



8 Its ruins are to be seen at Karaja-Fokia or Old Fokin, soutli-west of 

 Fouges or New Fokia. It was said to have bei-n louuded by Phocian 

 colonists under Philogcncs and Damon. 



9 The people of HjTcania, one of tlie twelve cities which were prostrated 

 by an eartliquake in the reign of Tiberius Ca-sar ; see B. ii. c. 86. 



10 The people of Magnesia "ad Sipyluin," or the city of Magnesia on 

 the Sipylus. It was situate on the south bank of the llerinus, and is 

 famous in history as (he scene of the vielury gained by the two Seipios 

 over Antiochus the Great, which secured tt) the Romans the empire of 

 the East, B.C. 190. Tliis place also suilered from the great earthquake 

 in the reign of Tiberius, but was still a place of importance in the fifth 

 century. 



