478 plint's NATTJEAL HISTOET. [Book V. 



Cale, Stabulum, Conisium, Teium, Balcea\ Tiare, Teuthranie, 

 Samaca, Haliserne, Lycide, Partheniiim,Thymbre,Oxyopum, 

 Lygdamum, ApoUonia, and Pergamum^, by far the most fa- 

 mous city in Asia, and through which the river Selinus runs ; 

 the Cetius, which rises in Mount Pindasus, flowing before 

 it. Not far from it is ElsBa, which we have mentioned^ as 

 situate on the sea-shore. The jurisdiction of this district is 

 called that of Pergamus ; to it resort the Thyatireni^, the 

 Mosyni, the Mygdones^, the Bregmeni, the Hierocomette*, 

 the rerpereni, the Tiareni, the Hierolophienses, the Her- 

 mocapelitae, the Attalenses^, the Panteenses, the ApoUoni- 

 dienses, and some other states unknown to fame. The little 

 town of Dardanum^ is distant from Rhoeteum seventy stadia. 

 Eighteen miles thence is the Promontory of Trapeza**, from 

 which spot the Hellespont first commences its course. 



Eratosthenes tells us that in Asia there have perished the 

 nations of the Solymi'", the Leleges", the Bebryces", the 



^ A town on the Propontis, according to Stephanus. The sites of 

 most of the places here mentioned are utterly unknown. 



3 Also called Pergama or Pergamus. Its ruins are to be seen at the 

 modem Pergarao or Bergamo. It was the capital of the kingdom of 

 Pergamus, and situate in the Teuthranian district of Mysia, on the 

 northern bank of the river Caicus. Under its kings, its hbrary almost 

 equalled that of Alexandria, and the formation of it gave rise to the in- 

 vention of parchment, as a writing material, which was thence called 

 Charta Pergamena. This city was an early seat of Christianity, and is 

 one of the seven churches of Asia to whom the Apocalyptic Epistles are 

 addressed. Its ruins are still to be seen. 



3 At the beginning of the preceding Chapter. 



* The people of Thyatira, mentioned in B. v. c. 31. 



* The people of Mygdonia, a district between Mount Olympus and 

 the coast, in the east of Mysia and the west of Bithynia. 



^ " The people of the Holy Village." Hierocome is mentioned by Livy 

 as situate beyond the river Mseander. 



7 The people of Attalia, mentioned in C. 32. 



8 Previously mentioned in the present Chapter. 



* Or " the Table." Now known as Capo de Janisseri. 



^0 Also called the Milyse, probably of the Syro- Arabian race ; they 

 were said to have been the earhest inhabitants of Lycia. 



^^ The Leleges are now considered to have been a branch of the great 

 Indo-Germanic race, who gradually became incorporated with the Hel- 

 lenic race, and thvis ceased to exist as an independent people. 



^2 A nation belonging probably more to mythology than history. 

 Strabo supposes them to have been of Thracian origin, and that their 

 first place of settlement was Mysia. 



