RUINS OF IOULIS. 171 
ABLE, NOT LEAD A DISHONOURABLE LIFE.' 
Ptolemy mentions three cities, instead of four; 
Caressus, loulis, and Carthcca*. From the ruins of 
the last of these has originated the present town 
of Zta, the only one in the whole island : those 
ruins may be traced in the valley, the whole 
way from the harbour to the citadel 4 . The 
name of this city written KAP0AIA by Strabo 
and by Ptolemy, and consequently Carthcea by 
Latin writers appears upon its medals, KAP0A, 
which is probably an abbreviation. We were Medals, 
fortunate in procuring several : but they were 
all of bronze ; nor have we ever seen or heard 
of a silver medal either of loulis or of Carthcea. 
Those of the latter city exhibited in front a 
laurelled bust; and for reverse, the fore quarters 
either of &fawn or of a dog; in some instances 
with a bee below, and a semicircle of diverging 
rays above the head of the animal. Their 
legends were either K, simply, or KAP0HA; 
but in no instance KAP0AIA. The bee evidently 
refers to loulis, of which city this was the 
symbol; as appears by some bronze medals 
(3) Ki'a wtfft} iv n oraXs/f ro'.Tf, Kxonffos, 'lov^ie, Ka^a/a. Pto/cni. Geog. 
lib. iii. cap. 15. Amst. 1G18. 
(4) Tournefort speaks of an inscription of forty-one lines in the 
Chapel of St. Peter ; but it was much effaced, and almost illegible. 
