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by Draco, Draco running into Tmolus, Tmolus into Cadmus^, 
and Cadmus into Taurus. Leaving Smyrna, the river Hermus 
forms a tract of plains, and gives them its own name. It 
rises near Dorylseum^, a city of Phrygia, and in its course 
receives several rivers, among them the one called the Phryx, 
which divides Caria from the nation to which it gives 
name ; also the Hyllus^ and the Cryos, themselves swollen 
by the rivers of Phrygia, Mysia, and Lydia. At the mouth 
of the Hermus formerly stood the town of Temnos^ : we 
now see at the extremity of the gulf^ the rocks called 
Myrmeces^, the town of Leuce^ on a promontory which 
was once an island, and Phocsea^, the frontier town of 
Ionia. 
A great part also of JEolia, of which we shall have pre- 
sently to speak, has recourse to the jurisdiction of Smyrna ; 
as well as the Macedones, surnamed Hyrcani^, and the Mag- 
netos from Sipylus. But to Ephesus, that other great lumi- 
nary of Asia, resort the more distant peoples known as the 
^ It does not appear that aU these mountains have been identified. 
Cadmus is the Baba Dagh of the Turks. 
2 Mentioned in C. 29 of the present Book. 
3 In the time of Strabo this tributary of the Hermus seems to have 
been known as the Phrygius. 
' ^ Its site is now called Menemen, according to D'Anville. The Cryus 
was so called from the Grreek Kpvos, " cold." 
^ The present Grulf of Smyrna. 
6 Or the "Ants." 
7 Probably so called from the whiteness of the promontory on which 
it was situate. It was built by Tachos, the Persian general, in B.C. 352, 
and remarkable as the scene of the battle between the Consul Licinius 
Crassus and Aristonicus in B.C. 131. The modern name of its site is 
Lefke. 
^ Its ruins are to be seen at Karaja-Fokia or Old Fokia, south-west of 
Pouges or New Fokia. It was said to have been founded by Phocian 
colonists under Philogenes and Damon. 
9 The people of Hyrcania, one of the twelve cities which were prostrated 
by an earthquake in the reign of Tiberius Csesar ; see B. ii. c. 86. 
The people of Magnesia " ad Sipylum," or the city of Magnesia on 
the Sipylus. It was situate on the south bank of the Hermus, and isr 
famous in history as the scene of the victory gained by the two Scipios 
over Antiochus the Great, which secured to the Romans the empire of 
the East, B.C. 190. This place also suffered from the great earthquake 
in the reign of Tiberius, but was still a place of importance in the fifth 
century. 
