450 PLINT's NATXTEAL HISTOET. [Book V. 



Seleucia^ upon the river Calycadnus, sumamed Tracheotis, 

 a city removed^ from the sea-shore, where it had the name of 

 Holmia. Besides those already mentioned, there are in the 

 interior the rivers Liparis^, Bombos, Paradisus, and Mount 

 Imbarus*. 



CHAP. 23. — ISAUEIA AlfD THE HOMONADES. 



All the geographers have mentioned Pamphylia as joining 

 up to Cilicia, without taking any notice of the people of 

 Isauria^. Its cities are, in the interior, Isaura®, Clibanus, 

 and Lalasis ; it runs down towards the sea by the side of 

 Anemurium^ already mentioned. In a similar manner also, 

 all who have treated of this subject have been ignorant of 

 the existence of the nation of the Homonades bordering upon 

 Isaiu-ia, and their town of Homona^ in the interior. There 

 are forty-four other fortresses, which lie concealed amid 

 rugged crags and valleys. 



^ Its ruins are called Selefkeh. This was an important city of Seleucia 

 Aspera, bililt by Seleucus I. on the western bank of the river Calycadnus. 

 It had an oracle of ApoUo, and annual games in honour of Zeus Olympius. 

 It was a free city under the Romans. It was here that Frederick Bar- 

 barossa, the emperor of Germany, died. Its ruins are picturesque and 

 extensive. 



2 Meaning that the inhabitants of Holmia were removed by Seleucus 

 to his new .city of Seleucia. 



3 Said by Vitruvius to have had the property of anointing those who 

 bathed in its waters. If so, it probably had. its name from the Greek 

 word XiTrapos, " fat." It flowed past the town of Soloe. Bombos and 

 Paradisus are rivers which do not appear to have been identified. 



^ A branch of the Taurus range. 



* It bordered in the east on Lycaonia, in the north on Phrygia, in the 

 west on Pisidia, and in the south on Cilicia and Pamphylia. 



^ A well-fortified city at the foot of Mount Taurus. It was twice 

 destroyed, first by its inhabitants when besieged by Perdiccas, and again 

 by the Roman general Servihus Isauricus. Strabo says that Amyntas of 

 Galatea built a new city in its vicinity out of the ruins of the old one. 

 T)*Anville and others have identified the site of Old Isauria with the 

 modem Bei Sheher, and they are of opinion that Seidi Sheher occupies 

 the site of New Isaura, but Hamilton thinks that the ruins on a hill 

 near the village of Olou Bounar mark the site of New Isaura. Of the 

 two next places nothing seems to be knovni at the present day. 



7 In the last Chapter. 



8 In Pisidia, at the southern extremity of Lake Caralitis. Tacitus, 

 Annals, iii. 48, says that this people possessed forty-four fortresses: 



