354 Gradus ad Aornon. [No. 4. 



left the city free, but took 300 of their cavalry to swell his army 

 and to serve as hostages. 



It may here be worth while to recapitulate all the evidence left 

 by aDcient history relating to Nusa and Mt. Meros. 



Pliny says, " Other writers are of opinion that the utmost frontier 

 and limit of India is the river Cophetes, and both it and all those 

 quarters are included within the territories or province of the Arii ; 

 yea and most of them assume that the cities Nysa as also the 

 mountain Meros consecrated to god Bacchus belong unto India, as 

 parcels thereof. This is that mountain whereof arose the poetical 

 fable, that Bacchus therein was born and issued out of Jupiter his 

 thigh. Likewise they assign and lay to India the country of the 

 Aspagores (Issup and Glowr the inhabitants of Sobaut) so plentiful 

 in vines, laurel and box, and generally of all sorts of apple trees 

 and other fruitful trees that grow within Greece." See Holland's 

 Translation, B. VI. ch. 21. 



Strabo says, " After the Koopheen flows the Indus (speaking of 

 Alexander's march). Between those two rivers are the Astakoinoi, 

 Maasianoi, Nusaioi and Ippasioi. Then afterwards the (realm) of 

 Assakanos, where is the city Masoga the palace (seat of authority) 

 of the country. Whence over against the Indus, is the territory of 

 another city Peukela, near which the bridge or ferry was established 

 to waft over his army." Strabo, c. XV. p. 698. 



In another place Strabo quotes the following passage from So- 

 phocles. 



" Thence beholding the insane Nusa illustrious in the sight of 

 mortals, wherein bull-horned Iakkhos dwelleth, to him the most 

 pleasing of nurses. Where not a bird emitteth sound, et cetera. 



" And it is said that he was sown up in a thigh and the poet con- 

 cerning Lycurgus Edonus thus saith : 



" He formerly caused trouble to the nurses of the mad or madden- 

 ing Dionusos at the truly divine Nusa." 



Here we see Nusa styled the mad or maddening, and Bacchus 

 receiving the same attribute, agreeing well with the shrine at the 

 foot of Mt. Elum consecrated to the Baba Dewana, or mad father. 



Let us sum up the features to be sought for in Nusa and Mt. 

 Meros, and then see how far they will agree with those accompany- 

 ing Mt. Elum. 



