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Colycantii, and the Tripsedri. Isidorus adds to these the 

 Arimi*, as also the Capretae, settled on the spot where Apa- 

 mea^ stands, which was founded by King Seleucus, between 

 Cilicia, Cappadocia, Cataonia, and Armenia, and was at first 

 called Damea^ from the fact that it had conquered nations 

 most remarkable for their fierceness. 



CHAP. 34. (31.) — THE ISLANDS WHICH LIE IN FRONT OF ASIA. 



Of the islands which lie before Asia the first is the on© 

 situate in the Canopic Mouth of the Nile, and which received 

 its name, it is said, from Canopus, the pilot of Menelaiis. A 

 second, called Pharos, is joined by a bridge to Alexandria, 

 and was made a colony by the Dictator Caesar. In former 

 times it was one day's sail* from the mainland of Egypt ; at 

 the present day it directs ships in their course by means of 

 the nres which are lighted at night on the tower* there ; for 

 in consequence of the insidious nature of the shoals, there 

 are only three channels by which Alexandria can be ap- 

 proached, those of Steganus", Posideum' and Taurus. 



In the Phoenician Sea, before Joppe there is the island of 

 Paria*, the whole of it forming a town. Here, they say, 

 Andromeda was exposed to the monster : the island also of 

 Arados, already mentioned', between which and the con- 

 tinent, as we learn from Mucianus, at a depth of fifty cubits 

 in the sea, fresh water is brought up from a spring at the 

 very bottom by means of leather pipes ^'*. 



* By some supposed to have been a people of Phrygia. 

 ' Mentioned in C. 29 of the present Book. 



' From the Greek Safidu), " to subdue." Hardouin thinks that this 

 appellation is intended to be given by PUny to Asia in general, and not 

 to the city of Aparaea in particular, as imagined by OrteUus and others. 



* It is so described by Homer. 



5 Tliis was the light-house built upon it by Ptolemy II. PhUadelphus, 

 whence the name oi pharus came to be appUed to similar structures. It 

 was here also that, according to the common story, the seventy Translators 

 of the Greek version of the Old Testament, hence called the Septuagint, 

 were confined while completing their work. 



^ The narrow or fortified channeL 



' The Neptunian channel. 



® Mentioned also in C. 14 of the present Book. 



' In C. 17 of the present Book. 



^® The boatmen of Euad, the ancient Aradus, still draw fresh water 



