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the capital of Ionia, which formerly had the names of Lele- 

 geis, Pityusa, and Anactoria, the mother of more than ninety 

 cities, founded upon all seas ; nor must she be deprived of the 

 honour of having Cadmus^ for her citizen, who was the first 

 to write in prose. The river Maeander, rising from a lake in 

 Mount Aulocrene, waters many cities and receives numerous 

 tributary streams. It is so serpentine in its course, that it 

 is often thought to turn back to the very spot from which 

 it came. It first runs through the district of Apamea, then 

 that of Eumenia, and then the plains of Bargyla; after 

 which, with a placid stream it passes through Caria, water- 

 ing all that territory with a slime of a most fertilizing quality, 

 and then at a distance of ten stadia from Miletus with a 

 gentle current enters the sea. We then come to Mount 

 Latmus^, the towns of Heraclea', also called by the same 

 name as the mountain, Carice, Myus"*, said to have been first 

 built by lonians who came from Athens, Naulochum*, and 

 Priene^. Upon that part of the coast which bears the naine 

 of Trogilia'' is the river Gesaus. This district is held sacred 

 by all the lonians, and thence receives the name of Panionia. 

 Near to it was formerly the town of Phygela, built by 



of the great changes made on the coast by the river Mffiander. They are 

 usually supposed to be those at the poor village of Palatia on the south 

 bank of the Mendereh ; but Forbiger has sliown that these are more 

 probably the remains of Myus, and that those of Miletus are buried in a 

 lake formed by the Mendereh at the foot of Mount Latmus. 



^ See B. vii. c. 57. Josephus says that he hved very shortly before 

 the Persian invasion of Greece. 



2 Now called the Monte di Palatia. 



3 Generally called " Heraclea upon Latmus," from its situation at the 

 western foot of Mount Latmus. Ruins of this town still exist at the 

 foot of that moimtain on the borders of Lake Bafii. 



* Its ruins are now to be seen at Palatia. It was the smallest city of 

 the Ionian Confederacy, and was situate at the mouth of the Maeander, 

 thirty stadia from its mouth. 



^ Mannert says that its ruins are to be seen at a spot called by the 

 Turks Sarasun-Kalesi. 



^ One of the twelve Ionian cities, situate at the foot of Mount Mycale. 

 It stood originally on the shore, but the change in the coast by the allu- 

 vial deposits of the Mseander left it some distance from the land. It was 

 celebrated as being the birth-place of the philosopher Bias. Its ruins 

 ;are to be seen at the spot called Samsim. 



7 Now called Cape Santa Maria, or Samsim. 



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