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thu8\ Lapethos', Soloe, Tamasos", Epidarum, Chytri^, Arsi- 

 noij*, Carpasium", and Gols^'. The towns of Cinyria, Ma- 

 rium, and Idalium® are no longer in existence. It is distant 

 from Anemurium' in Cilicia iifty miles ; the sea which runs 

 between the two shores being called the Channel of Cilicia*". 

 In the same locality" is the island of Eleusa'-, and the four 



by Teucer the son of Telamon, who gave it the name of his native land 

 from which he had been banished by his father. 



^ Now called Old Limasol, a town on the south coast, celebrated for 

 its worship of Aphrodite or Venus. It was a Phoenician settlement, and 

 Stephanus calls it the most ancient city in the island. It long preserved 

 its oriental customs, and here the Tyrian Hercules was worshipped under 

 his name of Melkart. * Its site is now called Lapitho or Lapta. 



* Probably the same as the Temese of Homer. It was situate in a 

 fertile district in the middle of Cyprus, and in the neighbourhood of ex- 

 tensive co})pcr -mines. Near it was a celebrated plain, sacred to Venus, 

 mentioned by Ovid. 



* Now called Chytria, a town of Cyprus on the road from Cerinea to 

 Salamis. 



* In the east of Cyprus, near the Promontory of Acamas, formerly 

 called Marion. Ptolemy Soter destroyed this town, and removed the 

 inhabitants to Paphos. The modem name of its site is Polikrusoko or 

 Crisophou, from the gold mines in the neighbourhood. There was more 

 than one city of this name in Cyprus, which was probably bestowed on 

 them during its subjection to the princes of the hne of Lagus. Another 

 Arsinoe is placed near Ammochostus to the north of the island, and a 

 third of the same name appears in Strabo with a harbour, temple and 

 grove, between Old and New Paphos. 



^ Or Carpasia, to the north-east of the island, facing the Promontory 

 of Sarpedon on the Cilician coast. It was said to have been founded by 

 Pygmalion, khig of Tyre. Pococke speaks of remains at Carpas, the site 

 of this place, especially a long wall and a pier. 



7 Or Golgos, famous for the worsliip of Aphrodite or Venus, which 

 had existed here even before its introduction at Paphos by Agapenor. 

 Its position is imknown. 



8 Or Idalia, adjoining to which was a forest sacred to Aphrodite. The 

 poets, who connect this place with her worship, give us no indications 

 what^jver of its precise locahty. Engel identifies it with the modem 

 Dalin, situate to the south of Leucosia, at the foot of Mount Olympus. 



^ Now Cape Anamur. 



'° " Aulon Cilicium," now the Sea of Caramania or Cyprus. 



*^ The Cilician Sea, namely. 



^ There were several islands of this name. It is not improbable that 

 Pliny alludes to the one lying off the coast of Caria between the isle of 

 Rhodes and the mainland, and which seems to be the island marked 

 Alessa in the maps. There was another of the same name close to the 

 shore of Cihcia, afterwards known by the name of Sebaste. 

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