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tcni^, the Timoniacenses^, and the Tliebaseui'. Galatia 

 also touches upon Carbalia in Pamphylia, and the Milyse*, 

 about Baris ; also upon Cyllanticum and Oroandicum^, a di- 

 strict of Pisidia, and Obizene, a part of Lycaonia. Besides 

 those already mentioned^, its rivers are the Sangarius'^ and 

 the Gallus^, from which last the priests' of the Mother ol 

 the gods have taken their name. 



CHAP. 43. — BITHTNTA. 



And now as to the remaining places on this coast. On 

 the road from Cios into the interior is Prusa^°, in Bithynia, 

 founded by Hannibal at the foot of Olympus, at a distance 

 of twenty-five miles from Nictea, Lake Ascanius^^ lyii^g Tt)e- 

 tween them. We then come to Nicaea^-, formerly called 



1 The people of Sebaste, a town of the Tectosages. 



2 The people of Timonium, a town of Paphlagonia, according to Ste- 

 phanus Byzantmus. 



3 Tliebasa, a town of Lycaonia, has been mentioned in C. 25 of the 

 present Book. * See C. 25 of the present Book. 



5 The town of Oroanda, giving name to this district, is mentioned at 

 the end of C. 24 of the present Book. 



^ The Cayster, the Khyndacus, and the Cios. 



7 Now called the Sakariyeh, the largest river of Asia Minor after the 

 ancient Halys. 



8 Now called the Lefke, which discharges itself into the Tangarius, 

 or Sakariyeh. 



^ Called *' GtiUi." They were said to become mad from drinking of 

 the waters of this river, and to mutilate themselves when in a frantio 

 state. See Ovid's Fasti, B. iv. 1. 364 et seq. 



^° Now called Brusa. It stood on the north side of Mount Olympus, 

 fifteen Roman miles from Cius. According to most accounts, it was 

 bmlt by Prusias, king of Bithynia. It is most probable that Hannibal 

 superintended the works, wlule staying as a refugee at the court of Prusias. 



'^ Now Lakelznik. 



^2 Its ruins are to be seen at Iznik, on the east side of the lake of that 

 name. Its site is supposed to have been originally occupied by the town 

 of Attsea, and afterwards by a settlement of the Bottiseans, called Ancore, 

 or Helicore, wliich was destroyed by the Mysians. On this spot, shortly 

 after the death of Alexander the Great, Antigonus built a city which 

 he named after liimself, Antigonaea ; but Lysimachus soon afterwards 

 changed the name into Nicsea, h\ honour of his wife. Under the kings 

 of Bithynia, it was often the royal residence, and it long dispiited with 

 Nicomedia the rank of capital of Bithynia. The modem Izmk is only 

 a poor village, with about 100 houses. Considerable ruins of the ancient 



