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pliny's NATTFEAL HISTOET. [Book Y. 
the district of Berecyntlius^ Nysa^, and Tralles^, also called 
Eiianthia'*, Seleucia, and Antiochia: it is washed by the 
river Eiidon, while the Thebais runs through it. Some 
authors say that a nation of Pygmies formerly dwelt here. 
Besides the preceding towns, there are Thydonos, Pyrrha^, 
Eurome^, Heraclea'', Amyzon^, the free town of Alabanda^, 
which has given name to that jurisdiction, the free town of 
Stratonicea^I^, Hynidos, Ceramus^^ Troezene^^, and Phorontis. 
1 The situation of this district is not known. See B. xvi. c. 16, where 
it appears that this region was famous for its boxwood. 
2 One of the numerous places of that name devoted to the worship of 
Bacchus. It was built on both sides of the ravine of the brook Eudon, 
which fell into the Mseander. Its ruins are to be seen at Sultan-Hissar, 
a Httle to the west of Hazeli. 
3 Its ruins are to be seen at Crhiuzel-Hissar, near Aidin. This was a 
flourishing commercial city, included sometimes in Ionia, sometimes in 
Caria. It stood on the banks of the Eudon, a tributary of the river 
Mseander. Under the Seleucidse it was called Antiochia and Seleucia. 
4 From the beauty and fertility of the surrounding country. 
5 An Ionic town of Caria, on the north side of the Sinus Latmicus, 
fifty stadia from the mouth of the Mseander. 
6 Or Euromus, a town of Caria, at the foot of Mount Grrion, which 
runs parallel with Latmos. Euins of a temple to the north-west of Ala- 
banda are considered to belong to Euromus. 
7 A town of uncertain site. It must not be confounded with the place 
of the same name, mentioned in c. 31 of the present Book. 
8 The ruins of its citadel and walls still exist on the east side of 
Mount Latmos, on the road from Bafi to Tchisme. 
9 Situate about twenty miles south of Tralles. The modern site is 
doubtful, but xlrab Hissa, on a branch of the Mseander, now called the 
Tcliina. is supposed to represent Alabanda. It was notorious for the 
luxuriousness of its inhabitants. A stone found in the vicinity was used 
for making glass and glazing vessels. See B. xxxvi. c. 13. 
1^ Built by Antiochus I. Soter, and named, in honour of his wife, Stra- 
tonice. It stood south of Alabanda, near the river Marsyas. It is sup- 
posed that it stood on the site of a former city caUed Idrias, and still 
earUer, Clu'ysaoris. 
11 D'Anville identifies it with a place called Keramo, but no such 
place appears to be known. Strabo places it near the sea between Cnidus 
and Halicarnassus, and Ceramus comes next after Cnidus. Ptolemy 
seems to place it on the south side of the bay. Of Hynidos notliing 
appears to be known, 
12 Its situation is unknown ; but there can be httle doubt that it was 
founded by the Dorians who emigrated to the coast of Asia Minor from 
Argolis and Troezene in the Peloponnesus. Phorontis appears to be 
unknown. 
