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' PLIKY'S ]S"ATURAL histoet. 
[Book y. 
name of whicli was Dulopolis. "We then come to Cnidos^ 
a free town, situate on a promontory, Triopia^, and after 
tliat the towns of Pegusa and Stadia. 
At this last town Doris begins ; but, first, it may be as 
well to describe the districts that lie to the back of Caria 
and the several jurisdictions in the interior. The first of 
these ^ is called Cibyratica ; Cibjra being a town of Phrygia. 
Twenty-five states resort to it for legal purposes, together 
with the most famous city of Laodicea"*. 
(29.) This place at first bore the name of Diospolis, and 
after that of Hhoas, and is situate on the river Lycus, the 
Asopus and the Caprus^ washing its sides. The other people 
belonging to the same jurisdiction, whom it may be not 
amiss to mention, are the Hydrelitse^, the Themisones'^, and 
the Hierapolitse^. The second jurisdiction receives its title 
^ Part of it was situate on an island now called Cape Krio, connected 
by a causeway with the mainland. Its site is covered with ruins of a 
most interesting character in every direction. The Triopian promontory, 
evidently alluded to by Phny, is the modern Cape Krio. 
2 It has been remarked that in his description here PHny is very brief 
and confused, and that he may intend to give the name of Triopia either 
to the small peninsula or island, or may include in this term the western 
part of the whole of the larger peninsula. 
3 Of these conventus. For an account of Cibyra see last page. 
* On the Lycus, now known as the Choruk-Su. By different writers 
it has been assigned to Lydia, Caria, and Phrygia, but in the ultimate 
division of the Roman provinces it was assigned to the Grreater Phrygia. 
It was founded by Antiochus II; on the site of a previous town, and 
named in honour of his wife Laodice. Its site is occupied by ruins of 
great magnificence. In the Apostohc age it was the seat of a flourishing 
Christian Church, which however very soon gave signs of degeneracy, 
as we learn from St. John's Epistle to it, Kevel. ii. 14-22. St. Paul also 
addresses it in common with the neighbouring church of Colossse. Its 
site is now called Eski-Hissar, or the Old Castle. 
s A tributary of the Phrygian Mseander. 
6 The people of Hydrela, a town of Caria, said to have been founded 
by one of three brothers who emigrated from Sparta. 
7 The people of Themisonium, now called Tseni. 
^ The people of Hierapohs, a town of Phrygia, situate on a height be- 
tween the rivers Lycus and Mseander, about five miles north of Laodicea, 
on the road from Apamea to Sardis. It was celebrated for its warm 
springs, and its Plutonium, or cave of Pluto, from which issued a me- 
phitic vapour of a poisonous nature ; see B. ii. c. 95. The Christian 
Church here is alluded toby St. Paul in his Epistle to theColossians, iv. 13. 
Its ruins are situate at an uninhabited place called Pambuk-Kalessi. 
