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PLIKX'S NATURAL HISTOBT. 
[Book Y, 
Marsyas had the musical contest with Apollo as to supe- 
riority of skill in playing on the flute. Aulocrense is the 
name given to a valley which lies ten miles on the road 
towards Phrygia from Apamea. As belonging to this juris- 
diction, it may be as well to mention the Metropolitse^, the 
Dionysopolitse^, the Euphorbeni^, the Acmonenses^, the Pel- 
teni^, and the Silbiani^, besides nine other nations of no note. 
Upon the Grulf of Doris^ we have Leucopolis, Ilamaxitos, 
Eleus, and Euthene^. We then come to Pitaium, Eutane^, 
and Halicarnassus towns of Caria. To the jurisdiction of 
this last place six towns were appended by Alexander the 
G-reat, Theangela^\ Sibde, Medmasa, Euralium, Pedasus, 
and Telmissus^^. Halicarnassus lies between two gulfs, 
those of Ceramus^^ and lasus^^. We then come to Myn- 
present Book. His account however is very confused, as lie mentions on 
different occasions a region of Aulocrene, a valley of Aulocrene, and a 
mountain of Aulocrene. 
1 People of " the Mother City," said by Stephen of Byzantium to have 
received that name from Cybele, the Mother of the Gods. 
2 Nothing is known of the site of Dionysopohs. It is mentioned in a 
letter of Cicero's to his brother Quintus, in which he speaks of the people 
of this place as being very hostile to the latter. 
3 The site of Euphorbium is denoted, according to Leake, by the mo- 
dern Sandukh. It lay between Synnas and Apamea, and not impro- 
bably, like Eucarpia, received its name from the fertihty of its territory. 
■* The site of Acmona has been fixed at Ahatkoi, but it seems doubtful. 
^ The site of Pelta is by DAnville called Bis-Chak or Hou-Chak. 
^ The people of Silbium or Silbia, near Metropohs. 
7 The Dorian settlements on the coast of Caria were so called. The 
Dorian Grulf was probably the Sinus Ceramicus mentioned below. 
^ Of these places nothing whatever seems to be known. 
^ Pitaium and Eutane seem to be unknown. 
^0 A member of the Dorian Hexapolis, or League of the Six Cities. 
The site of this famous city is occupied by the modern Boodroum, and 
its ruins are very extensive. It was famous as being the birth-place of 
the two historians Herodotus and Dionysius. It was the largest and 
best fortified city of Caria. According to Parisot the site of this 
place is now called Angeh and Karabaglas. 
12 This place must not be confounded with Telmessus or Telmissus in 
Lycia, which has been previously mentioned. It was situate six miles 
jfrom Halicarnassus. Of the other places here mentioned nothing seems 
to be known. 
13 Now the Grulf of Staneo, Kos, or Boodroum. It took its name from 
the port of Ceramus, now Keramo, according to D'Anville. 
1^ Now the Grulf of Mandeliyeh. It took its name from the city of 
lasus, the site of which is now called Askem or Asyn-Kaiessi. 
