Plinics Natural! Hifiorie* 



Doris.But before vie pafirefarther^mcet it were to fpeake of thofe cities and States which arc in 

 the midland countrcyjand which lie behind rand namely of onc^named Cibiratica.The towne. 

 it felfe is in Phrygiajand to it refort fot law and jufticc 2 5 citties. 



Chap. xxix. 



THc principall cittie in thbfe quarters (of the Cibirates) is Laodicea. Seated it is upon the 

 river Lycus : and yet there run hard to the fides thereof two other rivers^ Afopus, and Ca- 

 per, This citic in times paft was called Diolpolisjand afterwards Rhoas.The other nations 

 B belonging tothat jurifdi£lion of the Cibirates, worth the naming, be the Hydrelites, Themi- 

 fones^andyicrapolitcs. Another countic-court or towncof refort thercis^ which taketh thd 

 name of Synnada : and to it repaire for juflice^the Licaonians, AppiansjEncarpeneSjDorylaeij 

 Midseijlulienfes^and other Statesof no great reckening5fifteenei AthirdSeignorieorShird 

 there is that goeth to Apamia, which in old time was called Celxnasjand afterwards Ciboron: 

 fituate it is at the foot of the hill Signia, environed with three rivers, Marfy as, Obrima, and 

 Orga,falling all into the great river Maeander. As for the river Marfy a^ (which a little from his 

 fpring was hidden under the ground,where as Marfjas the mufician ftrove with Apollo in playing 

 upon the flute) fheweth himlelfe againe in Aulocrenas, for fo is the valley called5ten miles from 

 Apamia, as men travaile the high way to Phrygia. Vnder this jurifdi6lion5 we fhoUld doe well to 

 C name the MetropoliteSjDionyfopoliteSjEuphorbenes, A.cmonefes, Pelten€s,andSilbians.- 

 There are befideSjto the number of 60 finall towncs of no account*But within the gulfe of Do- 

 risjthere fland Leucopolis, AmaxiteSjEleus, and Euthenas. Moreover, other townes of Garia j 

 PitaiumjEut3ni2e,and Halicarnafliis. And to this cittie were annexed, as fubjed and homages 

 by (Alexander the Great,fixe other townesjnamely, TheangelajSibde, Medmofla, Euranium, 

 Pedaiium, andTelneffum :which townes areinhabited between the two gulfes,Ceramicus,and 

 lafiuSiFrom thence yce come to Myndus, and wheie fometime flood Palcemyndus, Neapolis, 

 Nariandus, Carianda,the free citie Termera, Bergyla^ and the'town lafus which gave the name 

 to the gulfe lafius.But Caria is moffrenowmed and glorious for the places of name within it in 

 the firme land: for therein arc thefe citties, to witj Mylafafree, and Antiochiaj now flanding 

 where fometime were the townes, Seminethos, and Cranaos: and environed now it is about 

 with the rivers Mseander, and Moffinus, In the fame trad flood fometime Ma:andropolis alfo. 

 There is befidcs, the citie Eumenia, upon the river Cludrus: the river Glaucus: the towne Ly- 

 fias,andOrthafia. Thetraclor marches of BerecinthuSjNyfa, Tralleis, which alfo is named 

 EuanthiajSeleucia, and Antiochiaj which is fituate upon the river Eudone that runneth hard 

 by it, and Thcbanis which pafTcth quite through it. Some there bCjwho report,that the dwarfes 

 called Pigma2i,fbmetime there dwelt. Inwhich region befideSj were thefe townes, Thydonos, 

 Pyn ha, Eurome,Heraclea, Arayzon, and the free citie Alabanda, whereof that fliiercwickcor 

 jurifdidion tooke name . Alfo the free towne Stratonicea,Hynidos,Ceramus, rroezene, and 

 Phorontis, Yea there be nations farther remote, that refort thitherto plead and have jiiitice in 

 E thatCourt .-namely, the Othroniens,Halydiensor HyppineSjXyftianes, Hydilfenfes, Apollo- 

 niateSjTrape2opoIites,and of free condition the Aphrodifians , Over and befides thefe,therd 

 are Coffinus,and Harpafa,fituate upon the river Harpafus^which alfo ran under Trailicon,when 

 fuch a towne there was. As for the countrey of Lydia, watered it is inmanyplaceswiththe re- 

 courfe of Mseanders ff reame,winding and turning in and out, as his manneris : and it reacheth 

 above Ionia : confining upon Phrygia in theEafl, upon Mifia in the North, and in the South 

 fide enclofing all the countrey of Caria.This Lydia was fometimes named M(Eonia*The capi- 

 tall citie of this region, is Sardis,feated upon the fide of the mountaineTmolus,called before- 

 time Tiinolus, a hill well planted with vineyards. Moreover, renowmed is this countrey for the 

 river Padolus ifTuing forth of this mountaine ; which river is called likewife Chryforrhoa izs al- 

 P fo for thefountaine Tarnes.The citic abovefaid, was commonly by the Moeonias called Hydcj 

 famous for the meerc or lake of Gyges. All that jurifdidion is at this day called Sardinia „ Thi- 

 ther refort befides the abovenamedjthe Caduenes,defcended from the Macedonians , the Lo- 

 renes, Philadelphenes, yea and the very Moeonians, fuch as inhabitc upon the river Gogamus 

 at the foot of tmoius s and the Tripolitanes who together with the AntoniopoUtcs^ dwell upon 



