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by Draco, Draco running into Tmolus, Tmolus into Cadmus \ 

 and Cadmus into Taurus. Leaving Smyrna, the river Hermus 

 forms a tract of plains, and gives them its own name. It 

 rises near Dorylseum^, a city of Phrygia, and in its course 

 receives several rivers, among them the one called the Phryx, 

 which divides Caria from the nation to which it gives 

 name ; also the Hyllus^ and the Cryos, themselves swollen 

 by the rivers of Phrygia, Mysia, and Lydia. At the mouth 

 of the Hermus formerly stood the town of Temnos^ : we 

 now see at the extremity of the gulf* the rocka called 

 Myrmeces*, the town of Leuce'' on a promontory which 

 was once an island, and Phocsea*, the frontier town of 

 Ionia. 



A great part also of ^olia, of which we shall have pre- 

 sently to speak, has recourse to the jurisdiction of Smyrna ; 

 as well as the Macedones, sumamed Hyrcani^, and the Mag- 

 netes'° from Sipylus. But to Ephesus, that other great lumi- 

 nary of Asia, resort the more distant peoples known as the 



* It does not appear that all these mountains have been identified. 

 Cadmus is the Baba Dagh of the Turks. 



3 Mentioned in C. 29 of the present Book. 



3 In tlie time of Strabo this tributary of the Hermus seems to have 

 been known as the Plirygius. 



* Its site is now called Menemen, according to D'Anville. The Cryus 

 was so called from the Greek jcpuos, " cold." 



* The present Gulf of Smyrna, 

 e Or the "Ants." 



7 Probably so called from the whiteness of the promontory on which 

 it was situate. It was built by Tachos, the Persian general, in B.C. 352, 

 and remarkable as the scene of the battle between the Consul Licinius 

 Crassus and Aristonicus in B.C. 131. The modem name of its site is 

 Lefke. 



s Its ruins are to be seen at Karaja-Fokia or Old Fokia, south-west of 

 Fouges or New Fokia. It was said to have been founded by Phocian 

 colonists under Philogenes and Damon. 



^ The people of Hyrcania, one of the twelve cities which were prostrated 

 by an earthquake in the reign of Tiberius Csesar ; see B. ii. c. 86. 



^^ The people of Magnesia " ad Sipylum," or the city of Magnesia on 

 the Sipylus. It was situate on the south bank of the Hermus, and is 

 famous in liistory as the scene of the victory gained by the two Scipios 

 over Antiochus the Great, which secured to the Romans the empire of 

 the East, B.C. 190. This place also suffered from the great earthquake 

 in the reign of Tiberius, but was still a place of importance in the fifth 

 century. 



