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tciii\ tlie Timoniacenses^, and the Thebaseni^. Gralatia 
also touches upon Carbalia in Pamphylia, and the Milyse^, 
about Baris ; also upon Cyllanticum and Oroandicum^, a di- 
strict of Pisidia, and Obizene, a part of Lycaonia. Besides 
those already mentioned^, its rivers are the Sangarius'' and 
the G-allus^, from which last the priests^ of the Mother ol 
the gods have taken their name. 
CHAP. 43.— BITHTKIA. 
And now as to the remaining places on this coast. On 
the road from Cios into the interior is Prusa^^, in Pithy nia, 
I founded by Hannibal at the foot of Olympus, at a distance 
of twenty-five miles from Nic^a, Lake Ascanius^^ lyiiig 
tween them. "We then come to Mcsea^^, formerly called 
1 The people of Sebaste, a town of the Tectosages. 
2 The people of Timonium, a town of Paphlagonia, according to Ste- 
phanus Byzantinus. 
3 Thebasa, a town of Lycaonia, has been mentioned in C. 25 of the 
present Book. ^ See 0. 25 of the present Book. 
^ The town of Oroanda, giving name to this district, is mentioned at 
the end of C. 24 of the present Book. 
^ The Cayster, the Rhyndacus, and the Cios. 
7 Now called the Sakariyeh, the largest river of Asia Minor after the 
ancient Halys. 
^ Now called the Lefke, which discharges itself into the Tangarius, 
or Sakariyeh. 
9 Called " GraUi." They were said to become mad from drinking of 
the waters of this river, and to mutilate themselves when in a frantic 
state. See Ovid's Fasti, B. iv. 1. 364 et seq. 
Now called Brusa. It stood on the north side of Mount Olympus, 
fifteen Roman miles from Cius. According to most accounts, it was 
built by Prusias, king of Bithynia. It is most probable that Hannibal 
superintended the works, while staying as a refugee at the court of Prusias. 
^ ^ Now Lake Iznik. 
^2 Its ruins are to be seen at Iznik, on the east side of the lake of that 
name. Its site is supposed to have been originally occupied by the town 
of Attsea, and afterwards by a settlement of the Bottiseans, called Ancore, 
or Helicore, which was destroyed by the Mysians. On this spot, shortly 
after the death of Alexander the Grreat, Antigonus built a city which 
he named after himself, Antigonsea ; but Lysimachus soon afterwards 
changed the name into Nicsea, in honour of his wife. Under the kings 
of Bithynia, it was often the royal residence, and it long disputed with 
Nicomedia the rank of capital of Bithynia. The modern Iznik is only 
a poor village, with about 100 houses. Considerable ruins of the ancient 
