Chap. 22.] ACCOmTT Or C0UNTEIE8, ETC. 447 



Mount Crocodilus, the Gates* of Mount Amanus, the rivers 

 Androcus^ Pinarus', and Lycus*, the Gulf of Issos', and the 

 town of that name ; then Alexandria", the river Chlorus^, 

 the Tree town of -^gae', the river Pvramus', the Gates'" of 

 Cilicia, the towns of Mallos" and Magarsos", and, in the 

 interior, Tarsus". We then come to the Aleian Plains", the 

 town of Cassipolis, Mopsos", a free town on the river Py- 

 ramus, Thynos, Zephynum, and Anchiale*". Next to these 



* Or " Passes." As to Mount Amanus, see C. 18 of the present Book. 

 ^ Parisot suggests that this is the Chcrsos of Xenophon, the modern 



Kermes. 



* The Deh-Su of modem times according to D'Anville, the Mahor- 

 Su according to Pococke. 



< Phny is the only writer that mentions this river Lycus. 



• The Gulf of Issos is now called the Gulf of Scanderoon or Isken- 

 dorun, from the town of that name, the former Alexandria ad Issum, 

 mentioned hero by Pliny. In tlio vicinity of Issus, Alexander defeated 

 the army of Darius. The exact site of the town appears not to have 

 been ascertained. 



• Wliicli still preserves its name in Iskenderun, on the east side of the 

 Gulf It probably received its name in honour of Alexander the Great. 



7 Or the " Green" River. Its identity is vmknown. 



■ Now called Ayas Kala or Kalassy. It was a place, in the Boman 

 period, of some importance. ' The modem river Jihan. 



10 Or " Passes " of Cihcin, through the range of Taurus. 



^' Called Mallo in modem times, according to llardouin and Dupinet. 



** At the mouth of the Pyramus, according to Tzetzes. 



^ Famous as the birth -pfaoe of St. Paul, the Ajwstle of the Gentiles. 

 Its ruins still bear the name of Tersus. During the civil war it took part 

 "with Julius Csesar, and fix>m him received the name of JuUopolis. 



1* They Ue between the rivers Djihoun and Syhoun, according to Ansart. 



^* Now called Messis, according to D'Anville and Mannert. The site 

 of Cassipolis, or Cassiopolis according to some readings, is unknown. 



^^ The sites of Thynos and Zephyrium appear to be unknown. Anchiale 

 was situate on the coast, upon the river Anchialeus, according to the 

 geographer Stephanus. Aristobulus, quoted by Strabo, says that at tliis 

 place was the tomb of Sardanapalus, and on it a rehef in stone repre- 

 senting a man snapping the fingers of the right hand. He adds, 

 *' It is said that there is an Assyrian inscription also, recording that Sar- 

 danapalus built Anchiale and Tarsus in one day, and exhorting the reader 

 to eat, drink, &c., as everything else is not worth That, the meaning of 

 which was shown by the attitude of the figure." Athenseus however 

 cites Amyntas as his authority for stating tliat the tomb of Sardanapalus 

 was at Nineveh. Leake is of opinion that a mound on the banks of the 

 river beyond the modem villages of Kazalu and Kaiaduar forms the re- 

 Duiins of Anchiale, 



