466 PLIirr's TH'ATtritAL HISTOET. [Book V. 



river Pactolus\ also called the Chrysorroas, and the sources 

 of the Tarnus : this famous city, which is situate upon the 

 Gygaean Lake^, used to be called Hyde^ by the people of 

 Maeonia. This jurisdiction is now called that oi Sardes, 

 and besides the people of the places already mentioned, the 

 following now resort to it — the Macedonian Cadueni'*, the 

 Loreni, the Philadelpheni^, the Maeonii, situate on the river 

 Cogamus at the foot of Mount Tmolus, the Tripolitani, who 

 are also called the Antoniopolitae, situate on the banks of 

 the Maeander, the Apollonihieritae®, the Mesotimolitae^, and 

 some others of no note. 



CHAP. 31. — IONIA. 



Ionia begins at the Gulf of lasos, and has a long winding 

 coast with numerous bays. First comes the G-ulf of Basili- 

 cum^, then the Promontory' and town of Posideum, and the 

 oracle once called the oracle of the Branchidae^", but now of 

 Didymsean Apollo, a distance of twenty stadia from the sea- 

 shore. One hundred and eighty stadia thence is Miletus", 



1 Now called the Sarabat. It was famous for its gold-producing sands. 



2 On the road between Thyatira and Sardes : near it was situate the 

 necropolis of Sardes. 



•' Strabo says tliat some persons called the citadel only by that name. 



4 There was a city of Mysia or Phrygia of the name ot Cadus or Cadi ; 

 but nothing is known of the place here alluded to, whose people would 

 appear to have been a colony from Macedonia, 



5 The people of Pluladeiphia, now Ala-Cher, or the "Fine City," 

 twelve leagues south-east of Sardes, and nine leagues south of Attaha. 



^ So called from the Greek ' AiroWwvos iepbv, " the temple of Apollo," 

 in the vicinity of which, south-east of Pergamus, their town was probably 

 situate. Notliing is known of these locahties. 



7 Dwellers in Mesotmolus, a town which, from its name, would ap- 

 pear to have been situate on the middle of Mount Tmolus. 



8 Now called the Gulf of Melasso. ^ Now the Cape of Melasso. 



^^ The remains of the Temple of Didymgean Apollo at Branchidse are 

 still visible to those sailing along the coast. It was in the Milesian ter- 

 ritory, and above the harbour Panormus. The name of the site was 

 probably Didyma or Didymi, but the place was also called Branchidse, 

 from that being the name of a body of priests who had the care of tho 

 temple. We learn from Herodotus that Croesus, king of Lydia, consulted 

 this oracle, and made rich presents to the temple. The temple, of which 

 only two columns are left, was of white marble. 



" The ruins of this important city are difficult to discover on account 



