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tlms\ Lapetlios'^, Soloe, Tamasos^, Epidamm, Chytri'^, Arsi- 
noe^, Carpasium^, and Grolgi'. Ttie towns of Cinyria, Ma- 
rium, and Idalium^ are no longer in existence. It is distant 
from Anemurium^ in Cilicia fifty miles ; the sea which runs 
between the two shores being called the Channel of Cilicia 
In the same locality is the island of Eleusa^^, and the four 
by Teucer the son of Telamon, who gave it the name of his native land 
from which he had been banished by his father. 
1 Now called Old Limasol, a town on the south coast, celebrated for 
its worsliip of Aphrodite or Yenus. It was a Phoenician settlement, and 
Stephanus calls it the most ancient city in the island. It long preserved 
its oriental customs, and here the Tyrian Hercules was worshipped under 
his name of Melkart. 2 jts site is now called Lapitho or Lapta. 
^ Probably the same as the Temese of Homer. It was situate in a 
fertile district in the middle of Cyprus, and in the neighbourhood of ex- 
tensive copper mines. Near it was a celebrated plain, sacred to Yenus, 
mentioned by Ovid. 
^ Now called Chytria, a town of Cyprus on the road from Cerinea to 
Salamis. 
^ In the east of Cyprus, near the Promontory of Acamas, formerly 
called Marion. Ptolemy Soter destroyed this town, and removed the 
inhabitants to Paphos. The modern name of its site is Pohkrusoko or 
Crisophou, from the gold mines in the neighbourhood. There was more 
than one city of tiiis name in Cyprus, which was probably bestowed on 
them during its subjection to the princes of the fine of Lagus. Another 
ALrsinoe is placed near Ammochostus to the north of the island, and a 
third of the sanie name appears in Strabo with a harbour, temple and 
grove, between Old and New Paphos. 
^ Or Carpasia, to the north-east of the island, facing the Promontory 
of Sarpedon on the Cilician coast. It was said to have been founded by 
Pygmahon, king of Tyre. Pococke speaks of remains at Carpas, the site 
of this place, especially a long wall and a pier. 
7 Or Grolgos, famous for the worship of Aphrodite or Yenus, which 
had existed here even before its introduction at Paphos by Agapenor. 
Its position is unknown. 
^ Or Idalia, adjoining to which was a forest sacred to Aphrodite. The 
poets, who connect this place with her worship, give us no indications 
whatever of its precise locahty. Engel identifies it with the modern 
Dahn, situate to the south of Leucosia, at the foot of Mount Olympus. 
^ Now Cape Anamur. 
" Aulon Cihcium," now the Sea of Caramania or Cyprus. 
The Cihcian Sea, namely. 
12 There were several islands of this name. It is not improbable that 
Pliny alludes to the one lying off the coast of Caria between the isle of 
[Rhodes and the mainland, and which seems to be the island marked 
Alessa in the maps. There was another of the same name close to the 
shore of Cihciaj afterwards known by the name of Sebaste. 
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