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wdth a town of the same name. Again, on the coast we 

 meet with Antandros\ formerly called Edonis, and after 

 that Cimmeris and Assos, also called Apollonia. The town 

 of Palamedium also formerly stood here. The Promontory 

 of Lecton^ separates ^olis from Troas. In jEolis there 

 was formerly the city of Polymedia, as also Chrysa, and a 

 second Larissa. The temple of Smintheus' is still standing ; 

 Colone'' in the interior has perished. To Adramyttium 

 resort upon matters of legal business the Apolloniatae', 

 whose town is on the river Rhyndacus'', the Erizii', the 

 Miletopolitffi*, the Poemaneni', the Macedonian AsculacsB, 

 the Polichnsei'", the Pionitae", the Cilician Mandacadeni, 

 and, in Mysia, the Abrettini'^, the people known as the 

 Hellespontii^^, and others of less note. 



famous for its fertility. The modern village of In^ is supposed to occupy 

 the pito of the ancient town of Gargara. 



1 Now Antandro, at the head of the Gidf of Adramyttium. Aristotle 

 also says that its former name was Edonis, and that it was inhabited by 

 a Thracian tribe of Edoni. Herodotus as weU as Aristotle also speak of 

 the seizure of the place by the Cimmerii in their incursion into Asia. 



* Now Cape Baba or Santa Maria, the south-west promontory of the 

 Troad. 



' Or Sminthian Apollo. This appears to have been situate at the 

 Chrysa last mentioned by Pliny as no longer in existence. Strabo places 

 Chrysa on a hill, and he mentions the temple of Sminthcus and speaks 

 of a symbol which recorded the etymon of that name, the mouse which 

 lay at the foot of the wooden figure, the work of Scopas. According to 

 an ancient tradition, Apollo had his name of Smintheus given him as 

 being the mouse-destroyer, for, according to Apion, the meaning of Smin- 

 theus was a " mouse." 



* According to tradition this place was in early times the residence of 

 Cycnus, a Thracian prince, who possessed the adjoining country, and the 

 island of Tenedos, opposite to which Colone was situate on the mainland. 

 Pliny however here places it in the interior. 



6 The site of this Apollonia is at AbuUionte, on a lake of the same 

 name, the ApoUoniatis of Strabo. Its remains are very inconsiderable. 



* Or Lycus, now known as the Edrenos. 



7 Of thus people nothing whatever is known. ^ D' Anville thinks 

 that the modem BaH- Kesri occupies the site of MiletopoHs. 



^ Stephanus Byzantinus mentions a place called Poemaninum near 

 Cyzicus. ^° The inhabitants of Polichna, a town of the Troad. 



^^ The people of Pionia, near Scepsis and Gargara. 



12 They occupied the greater part of Mysia Proper. They had a native 

 divinity to which they paid peculiar honours, by the Greeks called Ztvs^ 

 'ABpeTTrjvbs. 



^ The same as the Olympeni or Olympieni, in the district of Olyinpene 



