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Seleucia' upon the river Calycadnus, surnamed Traclieotis, 
a city removed^ from the sea-shore, where it had the name of 
Holmia. Besides those already mentioned, there are in the 
interior the rivers Liparis^, Bombos, Paradisus, and Mount 
Imbarus^. 
CHAP. 23. — ISAUEIA AND THE HOMONADES, 
All the geographers have mentioned Pamphylia as joining 
up to Cilicia, without taking any notice of the people of 
Isauria^. Its cities are, in the interior, Isaura^, Clibanus, 
and Lalasis ; it runs down towards the sea by the side of 
Anemurium^ already mentioned. In a similar manner also, 
all who have treated of this subject have been ignorant of 
the existence of the nation of the Homonades bordering upon 
Isauria, and their town of Homona^ in the interior. There 
are forty-four other fortresses, which lie concealed amid 
rugged crags and valleys. 
^ Its ruins are called Selefkeh. This was an important city of Seleucia 
Aspera, bililt by Seleucus I. on the western bank of the river Caljcadnus. 
It had an oracle of ApoUo, and annual games in honour of Zeus Olympius. 
It was a free city under the Romans. It was here that Frederick Bar- 
barossa, the emperor of Grermany, died. Its ruins are picturesque and 
extensive. 
2 Meaning that the inhabitants of Holmia were removed by Seleucus 
to his new city of Seleucia. 
3 Said by Yitruvius to have had the property of anointing those who 
bathed in its waters. If so, it probably had its name from the G-reek 
word XiTrapbs, " fat." It flowed past the town of Soloe. Bombos and 
Paradisus are rivers which do not appear to have been identified. 
^ A branch of the Taurus range. 
* It bordered in the east on Lycaonia, in the north on Phrygia, in the 
west on Pisidia, and in the south on Cilicia and PamphyHa. 
^ A well-fortified city at the foot of Mount Taurus. It was twice 
destroyed, first by its inhabitants when besieged by Perdiccas, and again 
by the Roman general Servihus Isauricus. Strabo says that Amyntas of 
Galatea built a new city in its vicinity out of the ruins of the old one. 
P'Anville and others have identified the site of Old Isauria with the 
modem Bei Sheher, and they are of opinion that Seidi Sheher occupies 
the site of New Isaura, but Hamilton thinks that the ruins on a hill 
near the village of Olou Bounar mark the site of New Isaura. Of the 
two next places nothing seems to be knovm at the present day. 
7 In the last Chapter. 
^ In Pisidia, at the southern extremity of Lake Caralitis. Tacitus, 
Annals, iii. 48, says that this people possessed forty-four fortresses: 
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