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 132 ANCALITES. Anawaty or Anuuutf, is described (^London G^. Joum. voL vii. p. 42 1 ), bat without anj exact descrip- tion of its position, as contoimng ruins " backed by an isolated mountain, bearing a castle of various archi- tecture." It seems not unlikely that this mountain may be Cyinda, which, in the time of Alexander and his successors, was a deposit for treasure. (Strab. p. 672 ; Diod. xviii. 62, xix. 56 ; Plut. Eumen, c. 13.) Strabo, indeed, places Cyinda above Anchiale; but as he does not mention Anazarbus, this ia no great difficulty; and besides this, his geography of Gilida is not very exact. If Pococke's account of the Py- ramus at Anauxuy being celled Qninda is true, this is some confirmation of the hill oif Anazarbus being Quinda. It seems probable enough that Quinda is J j^ an old name, which might be applied to the hill fort, even after Aiiazarbus became a dty of some import- /3L // ance. An old t raveller (WiUebrand y. Oldenburg), quoted by i? orBiger, found, at a place called Naversa (manifestly a corruption of Anazaibus) or Anawcutfj considerable remains of an old town, at the distance of 8 German miles from Sis. [G. L.] ANCALITES, a people in Britain, inhabiting the hundred of JTen/y, a locality which, probably, preserves their name. Caesar alone mentions them. Gale and Horsely reasonably suppose that they were a section of the Attrebates of Ptolemy. They were the most western Britons with which Caesar came in contact. (Caes. B. G, v. 21.) [R. G. L.] ANCHI'ALE CAyxidi, •A7x«^«*o, *Ayxid^.os : Eth, *Ayxuiit{fs)f a town of Cilicia, which Ste- I^anns («. v. *AyxtdKri) places on the coast, and on a river Anchialeus. One story which he repents, makes its origin purely mythical. The other story that he records, assigns its origin to Sardanapalus, who is said to have built Anchiale and Tarsus in one day. Strabo also places Anchiale near the coast. [Anazarbus.] Aristobulus, qnoted by Strabo (p. 672), says that the tomb of Sardanapalus was at Anchiale, and on it a relief in stone (rvvoy idiyoy) in the attitude of a man snapping the fingers of his right hand. He adds, " some say that there is an inscription in Assyrian characters, which recorxled that Sardanapalus built AnchiiUe and Tarsus in one day, and exhorted the reader to eat, drink, and so forth, as everything else is not worth That —, the meaning of which the attitude of the figure showed." In the text of Strabo, there follow six hexameter Greek verses, which are evidentiy an interpolation in the text. After these six veraes, the text of Strabo proceeds : ^ Choerilus, also, men- tions these matters; and the following verses also are generally circulated." The two hexameters which then follow, are a paraphrase of the exhorta- tion, of which Strabo has already given the sub- stance in prose. Athenaeus (xii. p. 529) quotes Aristobulus as authority for the monument at An- chiale; and Amyntas as authority for the eiust- ence of a mound at Kinus (^Nineveh)y which was the tomb of Sardanapalus, and contained, on a stone slab, in Chaldaic characters, an inscription to the same efiect as that which Strabo mentions; and Athenaeus says that Choerilus paraphrased it in verse. In uiother passage, Athenaeus (p. 336) quotes the six hexameters, which are interpolated in Strabo's text, but he adds a seventh. He there cites Chrysippus as authority for the insoription being on the tomb of Sardanapalus; but he does not, in that passage, say who is the Greek para- phrast, or where the inscription was. Athenaeus, however (p. 529), just like a mere collector who AKCONA. uses no judgment, gives a third story about « monument of Sardanapalus, without saying where it was; the inscription recorded that he bnilt Tir- sus and Anchiale in one day, ** but now is dead;" which suggests very difierent reflections from the other version. Arrian (Anab. ii. 5), probably fol- lowing Ptolemy, says, that Alexander marched in one day from Anchiale to Tarsus. lie describes the figure on the monument as baring the hands jcuned, as clapping the hands; he adds, that the former magnitude of the dty was shown by the circuit and the foundations of the walk. This description does not apply to the time of Arrian, but to the age of Alexander, for Arrian is merely copying the historians of Alexander. It senns luudly doubtful that the Assyrians once extended their power as far, at least, as Anchiale, and that there was a monument with Assyrian characters there in the time of Alexander; and there mi|;ht be one also to the same effect at Nineveh. (See Cic TuscDup. V. 35; Pdyb. viii. 12; and as to the passage of Strabo, Groskurd's Translation and Notes, vol. ill. p. 8I0a Leake (^Atia Jlfmor,p. 214) /y; observes, that a little west of Tarsus, and between the villages Kazalu and Karoduoar^ is a river thai answers to the Anchialeus; and he obsenres that '*a large mound, not far from the Anchialeus, inth some other similar tumuli near the shore to the westward, are the remains, perhape, of the Assyrian founders of Anchiale, whidi probably derived its temporary importance from being the chief ma- ritime station of the Assyrian monardis in these seas." [G. L] ANCHFALE (^Ayx^ni Ahiali), a small town on the western coast of tiie Euxine, to the north of Apollonia, to which its inhabitants were subject. (Strab. vii. p. 319.) The Latin writers, who men- tion the place, call it Anchialus or Anchialmn. (Ov. Tritt. L 9. 36; Pomp. MeL ii. 2; Plin.^.^. iv. 18; comp. Ptol. iiL 11. § 4.) [L. S.] ANCHIASMUS. [OwcmaMus.] ANCHI'SIA^ [Mastineia.] A'NCHOE ('A7x<^), a place on the borders of Boeotia and of Locris, near Upper Larymna, at which the waters of the Cephissus broke forth from their subterraneous channel. There was also a lake of the same name at this place. (Strab. ix. pp. 406, 407 ; Plin. iv. 7. a. 12 ; Leake, Northern Greece^ vol. ii. p. 289.) [Lastmn A.] ANCON ('A7irc&f'), a headland and bay, as tba name implies, on the coast of Pontus, east of Amisns. It is mentioned by Valerius Flaccus (iv. 600) in his ArgonauUca, after the Iris, as if it were east of the mouth of that river. Apollonius Bhodins simply speaks of it as a headland (ii. 369). The ancient authorities do not agree in the (tistances along this coast (Steph. $. v. XaJSurla; HainiltoD, Researches, vol. i. p. 288). The conclusion of Hamilton seems to be the. most probable, that Der- bend BoumoUy east of Amisus, represents Ancon, as it is the first headland east of Amisus, " and the only place before reaching the mouth of the Iny where a harbour can exist." He adds, that " at tha extremity of Derbend BoumoUf a small stream falls into the sea between two precipitous headlands, probably the Chadisius of the ancients." [G. L.] ANCO'NA, or ANCON ('AyieiAi' : Eth, 'AyKiiras, and *AyKonfiTriSf Steph. B., Anconitanus: the fom Ancon in Latin is diiefly poetical; but, accordiqg to Orelli, Cicero uses Anconem for the ace. case)t an important city of Picenum on the Adriatic sea, y, . . « ' ► r '