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plint's fatijbal histort. 
[Book Y. 
Cale, Stabulum, Conisium, Teium, Ealcea\ Tiare, Teutliranie,' 
Sarnaca, Haliserne, Lycide, Part}ieiiiuni,Thyinbre,Oxyopum, 
Lygdamum, ApoUonia, and Pergamum^, by far the most fa- 
mous city in Asia, and through which the river Selinus runs ; 
the Cetius, which rises in Mount Pindasus, flowing before 
it. Not far from it is Elsea, which we have mentioned^ as 
situate on the sea-shore. The jurisdiction of this district is 
called that of Pergamus ; to it resort the Thyatireni^, the 
Mosyni, the Mygdones^, the Bregmeni, the Hierocometce^, 
the Perpereni, the Tiareni, the Hierolophienses, the Her- 
mocapelitse, the Attalenses'', the Panteenses, the Apolloni- 
dienses, and some other states unknown to fame. The little 
town of Dardanum^ is distant from Khoeteum seventy stadia. 
Eighteen miles thence is the Promontory of Trapeza^, from 
which spot the Hellespont first commences its course. 
Eratosthenes tells us that in Asia there have perished the 
nations of the Solymi^^, the Leleges^^ the Bebryces^^, the 
^ A town on the Propontis, according to Stephanus. The sites of 
most of the places here mentioned are utterly unknown. 
2 Also called Pergama or Pergamus. Its ruins are to be seen at the 
modern Pergamo or Bergamo. It was the capital of the kingdom of 
Pergamus, and situate in the Teuthranian district of Mysia, on the 
northern bank of the river Caicus. Under its kings, its library almost 
equalled that of Alexandria, and the formation of it gave rise to the in- 
vention of parchment, as a writing material, which was thence called 
CJiarta Pergamena. This city was an early seat of Christianity, and is 
one of the seven chm^ches of Asia to whom the Apocalyptic Epistles are - 
addressed. Its ruins are still to be seen. 
3 At the beginning of the preceding Chapter. 
* The people of Thyatira, mentioned in B. v. c. 31. 
5 The people of Mygdonia, a district between Mount Olympus and 
the coast, in the east of Mysia and the west of Bithynia. 
^ " The people of the Holy Yillage." Hierocome is mentioned by Livy 
as situate beyond the river Mseander. 
The people of Attaha, mentioned in C. 32. 
s Previously mentioned in the present Chapter. 
^ Or "the Table." Now known as Capo de Janisseri. 
10 Also called the Milyse, probably of the Syro Arabian race ; they 
were said to have been the earhest inhabitants of Lycia. 
1^ The Leleges are now considered to have been a branch of the great 
Indo-G-ermanic race, who gradually became incorporated with the Hel- 
lenic race, and thus ceased to exist as an independent people. 
12 A nation belonging probably more to mythology than history. 
Strabo supposes them to have been of Thracian origin, and that their 
first place of settlement was Mysia, 
