Chap. 34] ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, ETC. 479 



Colyeantii, and the Tnpsedri. Isidorus adds to these the 

 Ariiiii', as also the Capretae, settled ou the spot where Apa- 

 mea" stands, which was founded by King Seleucus, between 

 Cilicia, Cappadocia, Cataonia, and Ai-meuia, and was at first 

 called Damea^ from tlie fact that it had conquered nations 

 most remarkable for their fierceness. 



CHAP. 34. (31.) — THE ISLANDS WHICH LIE IN FEONT OF ASIA. 



^ Of the islands which lie before Asia the first is the one 

 situate in the Canopic Moutli of the Nile, and which received 

 its name, it is said, from Canopus, the pilot of Menelaiis. A 

 second, called Pharos, is joined by a bridge to Alexandria, 

 and was made a colony by the Dictator Caesar. In former 

 times it was one day's *saiP from the mainland of Bg}-pt ; at 

 the present day it directs ships in their course by means of 

 the fii-es which are lighted at night on the tower^ there ; for 

 in consequence of the insidious nature of the shoals, there 

 are only three channels by wliich Alexandria can be ap- 

 proached, those of Steganus*', Posideum'' and Taurus. 



In the Phoenician Sea, before Joppe there is the island of 

 Paria^, the whole of it forming a town. Here, they say, 

 Andromeda was exposed to the monster : the island also of 

 Arados, already mentioned^, between which and the con- 

 tinent, as we learn from Mucianus, at a depth of fifty cubits 

 in the sea, fresh water is brought up from a spriug at the 

 very bottom by means of leather pipes *°. 



^ By some supposed to have been a ]>eople of Phrygia. 



2 Mentioned in C. 29 of the present Book. 



3 From the Greek dcifiao}, " to subdue." Ilardouin thinks tliat this 

 appellation is intended to be given by Pliny to Asia in getu'ral, and not 

 to the city of Apamea in ]-)articidar, as imagined by Ortehus and others. 



^ It is so described by Homer. 



5 This was the hght-house built upon it by Ptolemy TI. Philadelphus, 

 whence the name of pharus came to be a]>i)lied to similar structures. It 

 was here also that, according to tlie common story, the seventy 'IVanslatora 

 of the Greek version of tlie Old Testament, hence called the Septuagint, 

 were confined wliile com^ileting their work. 



^ The narrotv or fortijied channel. 



^ The Neptunian channel. 



^ Mentioned also m C. 14 of the present Book. 



^ In C. 17 of the present Book. 



^^ The boatmen of Ruad, the ancient Aradus, still draw fresh wat^r 



