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Mount Crocodilus, the Grates^ of Mount Amanus, tlie rivers 
Androcus"^, Pinarus^, and Lycus'', the Grulf of Issos^, and the 
town of that name ; then Alexandria^, the river Chlorus^, 
the xree town of ^gse^, the river Pyramus^, the Gates of 
Cilicia, the towns of Mailos" and Magarsos^^, and, in the 
interior. Tarsus We then come to the Aleian Plains ^"^5 the 
town of Cassipolis, Mopsos^^, a free town on the river Py- 
ramus, Thynos, Zephyrium, and Anchiale^^ Next to these 
^ Or " Passes." As to Mount Amaniis, see C. 18 of the present Book. 
2 Parisot suggests that this is the Chersos of Xenophon, the modern 
Kermes. 
3 The Deh-Su of modern times according to D'Anville, the Maher- 
Su according to Pococke. 
^ PHny is the only writer that mentions this river Lycus. 
^ The Grulf of Is SOS is now called the Gulf of Scanderoon or Isken- 
derun, from the town of that name, the former Alexandria ad Issum, 
mentioned here hj PHny. In the vicinity of Issus, Alexander defeated 
the army of Darius. The exact site of the town appears not to have 
been ascertained. 
^ "Which still preserves its name in Iskenderun, on the east side of the 
Grulf. It probably received its name in honour of Alexander the Great. 
7 Or the " Green" River. Its identity is unknown. 
s Now called Ayas Kala or Kalassy. It was a place, in the Eoman 
period, of some importance. ^ The modern river Jihan. 
10 Or " Passes " of Cilicia, through the range of Taurus. 
11 Called Mallo in modern times, according to Hardouin and Dupinet. 
12 At the mouth of the Pyramus, according to Tzetzes. 
13 Famous as the birth-place of St. Paul, the Apostle of the Gentiles. 
Its ruins still bear the name of Tersus. During the civil war it took part 
with Julius Csesar, and from him received the name of JuhopoHs. 
14 They lie between the rivers Djihoun and Syhoun, according to Ansart. 
1'^ Now called Messis, according to D'Anville and Mannert. The site 
of Cassipolis, or Cassiopolis according to some readings, is unknown. 
16 The sites of Thynos and Zephyrium appear to be unknown. Ancliiale 
was situate on the coast, upon the river Anchialeus, according to the 
geographer Stephanus. Aristobulus, quoted by Strabo, saysi;hat at this 
place was the tomb of Sardanaj^alus, and on it a relief in stone repre- 
senting a man snapping the fingers of the right hand. He adds, 
" It is said that there is an Assyrian inscription also, recording that Sar- 
danapalus built Anchiale and Tarsus in one day, and exhorting the reader 
to eat, drink, &c., as everything else is not worth That, the meaning of 
which was shown by the attitude of the figure." Athenseus however 
cites Amyntas as his authority for stating that the tomb of Sardanapalus 
was at Nineveh. Leake is of opinion that a mound on the banks of the 
river beyond the modem villages of Kazalu and Karaduar forms the re- 
mains of Anchiale, 
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