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Colycantii, and the Tripsedri. Isidorus adds to these the 
Arimi^ as also the Capretse, settled on the spot where Apa- 
mea^ stands, which was founded by King Seleucus, between 
Cilicia, Cappadocia, Cataonia, and Armenia, and was at first 
called Damea'^, from the fact that it had conquered nations 
most remarkable for their fierceness. 
CHAP. 34. (31.) — THE ISLANDS WHICH LIE IN EEONT OE ASIA. 
Of the islands which lie before Asia the first is the one 
situate in the Canopic Mouth of the Nile, and which received 
its name, it is said, from Canopus, the pilot of Menelaiis. A 
second, called Pharos, is joined by a bridge to Alexandria, 
and was made a colony by the Dictator Caesar. In former 
times it was one day's saiP from the mainland of Egypt ; at 
the present day it directs ships in their course by means of 
the fires which are lighted at night on the tower ^ there ; for 
in consequence of the insidious nature of the shoals, there 
are only three channels by which Alexandria can be ap- 
proached, those of Steganus^, Posideum^ and Taurus. 
In the Phoenician Sea, before Joppe there is the island of 
Paria^, the whole of it forming a town. Here, they say, 
Andromeda was exposed to the monster : the island also of 
Arados, already mentioned^, between which and the con- 
tinent, as we learn from Mucianus, at a depth of fifty cubits 
in the sea, fresh water is brought up from a spring at the 
very bottom by means of leather pipes 
^ By some supposed to have been a people of Phrygia. 
2 Mentioned in C. 29 of the present Book. 
^ From the Grreek dafidoj, " to subdue." Hardouin thinks that this 
appellation is intended to be given by Phny to Asia in general, and not 
to the city of Apamea in particular, as imagined by OrteHus and others. 
^ It is so described by Homer. 
^ This was the light-house built upon it by Ptolemy II. Philadelphus, 
whence the name ofpharus came to be applied to similar structures. It 
was here also that, according to the common story, the seventy Translators 
of the Grreek version of the Old Testament, hence called the Septuagiut, 
were confined while completing their work. 
^ The narrow or fortified channel. 
^ The Neptunian channel. 
^ Mentioned also in C. 14 of the present Book. 
^ In C. 17 of the present Book. 
The boatmen of Ruad, the ancient Aradus, stiU draw fi'esh water 
