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tlie capital of Ionia, wliich formerly had the names of Lele- 
geis, Pityusa, and Anactoria, the mother of more than ninety 
cities, founded upon all seas ; nor must she be deprived of the 
honour of having Cadmus^ for her citizen, who was the first 
to write in prose. The river Mseander, rising from a lake in 
Mount Aulocrene, waters many cities and receives numerous 
tributary streams. It is so serpentine in its course, that it 
is often thought to turn back to the very spot from which 
it came. It first runs through the district of Apamea, then 
that of Eumenia, and then the plains of Eargyla; after 
which, with a placid stream it passes through Caria, water- 
ing all that territory with a slime of a most fertilizing quality, 
and then at a distance of ten stadia from Miletus with a 
gentle current enters the sea. We then come to Mount 
Latmus^, the towns of Heraclea^, also called by the same 
name as the mountain, Carice, Myus^, said to have been first 
built by lonians who came from Athens, JSTaulochum^, and 
Priene^. Upon that part of the coast which bears the name 
of Trogilia'' is the river Gressus. This district is held sacred 
by all the lonians, and thence receives the name of Panionia. 
Near to it was formerly the tovm of Phygela, built by 
of the great changes made on the coast by the river Mseander. They are 
usually supposed to be those at the poor village of Palatia on the south 
bank of the Mendereh; but Forbiger has sliown that these are more 
probably the remains of Myus, and that those of Miletus are buried in a 
lake formed by the Mendereh at the foot of Mount Latmus. 
1 ' See B. vii. c. 57. Josephus says that he hved very shortly before 
the Persian invasion of Grreece. ^ 
2 Now called the Monte di Palatia. 
3 Grenerally called " Heraclea upon Latmus," from its situation at the 
western foot of Mount Latmus. Ruins of this town still exist at the 
foot of that mountain on the borders of Lake Baffi. 
^ Its ruins are now to be seen at Palatia. It was the smallest city of 
the Ionian Confederacy, and was situate at the month of the Mseander, 
thirty stadia from its mouth. 
^ Mannert says that its ruins are to be seen at a spot called by the 
Turks Sarasun-Kalesi. 
^ One of the twelve Ionian cities, situate at the foot of Mount Mycale. 
It stood originally on the shore, but the change in the coast by the allu- 
vial deposits of the Mseander left it some distance from the land. It was 
celebrated as being the birth-place of the philosopher Bias. Its ruins 
^are to be seen at the spot called Samsun. 
7 Now called Cape Santa Maria, or Samsim. 
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