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jurisdiction is now called the district of Sardis, and 

 besides the people before-named it is the ccntre for 

 the Macedonian Cadieni, the Philadelphini, and tlie 

 Maeonii themselves who are situated on the river 

 Cogamus at the foot of Mount Tmolus, the Tripohtani, 

 also called Antoniopohtae — their territory is washed 

 by the river Maeander — , the Apollonihieritae, the 

 Mysotimohtae and other people of no note. 



XXXI. At the Gulf of lasus lonia begins. It has a loma. 

 M-inding coast, with a rather large number of bays. 

 The first is the Royal Bay, then the cape and 

 to^vn of Posideum, and the shrine once called the 

 oracle of the Branchidae, now that of Didymaean 

 Apollo, 2h miles from the coast ; and 22i miles from 

 it Miletus, the capital of lonia, which formerly bore 

 the names of Lelegeis and Pityusa and Anactoria, 

 the mother of over 90 cities scattered over all thc 

 seas ; nor must she be robbed of her claim to Cadmus 

 as her citizen, the author who originated composition 

 in prose. From the mountain Kake of Aulocrene 

 rises the river Maeander, which washes a large 

 number of cities and is replenished by frequent 

 tributaries ; its windings are so tortuous that it is 

 often believed to turn and flow backwards. It first 

 wanders through the region of Apamea, afterwards 

 that of Kumenia, and then the plains of HjTgale, 

 and finally the country of Caria, its tranquil waters 

 irrigating all these regions with mud of a most 

 fertilising quality ; and it ghdes gently into the sea 

 a mile and a quarter from Miletus. Next comes 

 Mount Latmus, the towns of Heraclea belonging to 

 the mountain so designated in the Carian dialect, 

 Myus which is recorded to have been first founded 

 by lonian cmigrants from Athens, Naulochum, and 



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