472 plikt's natural histoet. [Book V. 



Caesarienses\ the Metropolitae^ the Cilbiani^, "both the 

 Lower and Upper, the Mysomacedones"*, the Mastaurenses", 

 the Briiditae^, the H^^psepeni^, and the Dioshieritae^. 



CHAP. 32. (30.)— ^OLIS. 



JEolis^ comes next, formerly known as Mysia, and Troas 

 which is adjacent to the Hellespont. Here, after passing 

 Phocsea, we come to the Ascanian Port, then the spot where 

 Larissa^" stood, and then Cyme'\ Myrina, also called Sebas- 

 topolis^"^, and in the interior, Mgse^^, Attalia^'*, Posidea, Neon- 



1 The people, it is supposed, of a place called Hierocsesarea. 



2 The people probably of Metropolis in Lydia, now Turbali, a city on 

 the plain of the Cayster, between Ephesus and Smyrna. Cilbis, perhaps 

 the present Durgut, was their cliief place. 



3 A people dwelling in the upper valley of Cayster. 



4 Or Mysian Macedonians. 



5 The people of Mastaura in Lydia. Its site is stiU known as Mas- 

 taura-Kalesi. * 



6 The people of Briida, the site of which is unknown. 



' The people of Hypaepae, a small town of Lydia, on the southern 

 slope of Mount Tmolus, forty-two miles from Ephesus. Under the 

 Persian supremacy, the worship of Fire was introduced at this place. 

 Arachne, the spinner, and competitor with Minerva, is represented by 

 Ovid as dwelling at this place; he calls it on two occasions "the little 

 Hypsepse." Leake is of opinion that the ruins seen at Bereki belong to 

 this place. 



** The people of Dios Hieron, or the " Temple of Jupiter." This was 

 a small place in Ionia between Lebedus and Colophon. It has been sug- 

 gested that it was on the banks of the Cayster, but its site is uncertain. 



^ ^olis, properly so called, extended as far north as the promontory 

 of Lectum, at the northern entrance of the bay of Adramyttium. 



^* Near Cyme, a place of Pelasgian origin. It was called Egyptian 

 Larissa, because Cyrus the Great settled here a body of his Egyptian 

 soldiers. According to D'AnviUe its site is stiU known as Larusar. 



1* Said to have been so called from Cyme an Amazon. It was on the 

 northern , side of the Hermus : Herodotus gives it the surname of Phri- 

 conis. Its site is supposed to be at the modern SanderH or Sandarho. 

 The father of the poet Hesiod was a native of tliis place. 



'2 It was probably so called in honour of the Emperor Augustus. 



^"* Situate at a short distance from the coast. We learn from Tacitus 

 that it suffered from the great earthquake in the time of Tiberius. Its 

 site is called Guzel-Hissar, according to D'Anville. 



^•* Originally named Agi'oeira or Alloeira. There is a place stQl called 

 Adala, on the river Hermus, but Hamilton found no remains of anti- 

 quity there. 



