490 pLnrr's natitbal histoet. [Book V. 



This country was at first called by the name of Cronia, 

 after that, Thessalis, and then Malianda and Strymonis. The 

 people of it are by Homer called Halizones\ from the fact 

 that it was "a nation begirt by the sea. There was formerly 

 a vast city here, Attussa by name ; at present there are 

 twelve cities in existence; among which is Gordiucome^, 

 otherwise Juliopolis; and, on the coast, Dascylos'. We 

 then come to the river (ielbes^ ; and, in the interior, the 

 town of Helgas, or Germanicopolis, which has also the 

 other name of Booscoete* ; Apamea*, now more generally 

 known as Myrlea of the Colophonians : the river iltheleus 

 also, the ancient boundary of Troas, and the commencement 

 of Mysia. Next to this comes the gulf into which the 

 river Ascanius flows, the town of Bryllion*, and the rivers 

 Hylas and Cios, with a town of the same name as the last- 

 mentioned river ; it was founded by the Milesians at a place 

 which was called Ascania of Phrygia, as an entrepot for the 

 trade of the Phrygians who dwelt in the vicinity. We may 

 therefore look upon this as a not ineligible opportunity for 

 making further mention of Phrygia. 



CHAP. 41. — PHETGIA. 



Phrygia lies above Troas, and the peoples already men- 



* Ephorus, as quoted bv Stephanus Byzantinu8, says, that the Hali- 

 zones inhabited the district lying between Caria, Mysia, and Lydia. 

 Hesychius incorrectly places them in Paphlagonia. 



2 Meaning the " Village of Gordius," one of its ancient lings. It was 

 also called Gordium. After falling to decay, it was rebuilt by Augustus, 

 and called Juliopolis. It is celebrated in history as the place where 

 Alexander the Great cut the Gordian knot<; the scene of the adventure 

 being the Acropolis of the town, the former palace of King Gordius. 



3 Therewere several Asiatic cities of the similar name of DascyUum. The 

 site of the one here mentioned does not appear to have been ascertained. 



4 More generally read " Gebes." « The " Bull's Bed," or " Den." 

 It probably took its second name from the Roman general Germanicus. 



* Now called Medania, or Mutania. It received its name of Apamea 

 from Prusias, king of Bithynia, in compUment to his wife. In the time 

 of the first Csesars, it was made a Roman colony. 



' The Bay of Cios. The river runs into a lake, formerly known as 

 Lake Ascanius ; probably that mentioned by PUny in B. xxxi. c. 10. 



® Stephanus Byzantinus says that it was the same as the town of Cios, 

 or Cius, here mentioned as near to it. It was on the shores of the 

 Propontis. 



