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May 7th. — This day we ascended a mountain 

 to the west of Cibyra, six thousand feet above the 

 sea, in order to obtain a good view over the 

 surrounding country. We could see over the 

 plain of Karaook as far as Denizlee, and its 

 opening into the valley of the Dalamon Tchy, 

 the ancient Indus. By that valley we were 

 separated from the highest mountain of Caria, 

 Baba Dagh, anciently Mount Cadmus. Close to 

 the snow many beautiful plants were in flower, 

 especially Anemone appenina, and several species 



these, together with the capital, constituted a tetrapolis. Each 

 of these towns had one vote in the general assembly of the 

 states, except Cibyra, which had two, in consideration of its 

 superior power. This city, we are told by Strabo, could raise 

 no less than thirty thousand foot, and twenty thousand horse ; 

 and its influence and power extended over a part of Pisidia, 

 Milyas, and Lycia, as far as Peraea of the Rhodians. The 

 first mention which is made in history of Cibyra occurs in 

 Livy's narrative of the Gallo-Grecian war ; a war which fur- 

 nished the Romans with an occasion for settling several minor 

 points of Asiatic policy, according to their sovereign will and 

 pleasure. We learn from the Roman historian (Livy xxxviii. 

 14,) that the consul Manlius, having crossed the Meander and 

 advanced through Caria to the Cibyratic frontier, detached 

 C. Helvius with a small corps, to discover whether Moagetes, 

 tyrant of Cibyra, was disposed to submit. On his threatening 

 to lay waste the territory of this chief, he came to the Roman 

 camp, and was ordered to pay five hundred talents. This 



