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 HIERAPOLIB. ru t, d«p exn irilli > hi from it; but it tppain to hs>e l«t its poiaoniflg in- flncnce in the tims of Amtnianiu. (Sinb. (. c; Plin. ii. 93. a. 95 ; KoD Cug. liiiiL ST ; Amm.Hirc iziiL 6.) Th««llnB of Uirnpotu wen much nnd ror dyeiiiB. (Strab. xiii. p. 630.) Amoof; the deiti« wor- Blii[qied in Hierapdii the Gruit Moiber of the Godi is «piwi«1tj Diuno]. (llin. iL 93. 9. 95.) There vu i Chri>tt>n church in tfaia town u carlj u Ute time oF St. Ful. (t'oloH. iv. la) At ■ liter tim it claimedtfaetit^Df inNropolixrf'Pfarjgii. (Hinncke, p. 665, with Waaelini^ notet) It w»s the birth- plue of the philneopher Epicletus. The niina of Hienpolie are eitiuMd at ui aninliabited place called PaTnbut-kaleMiL The; are of considemble extent, and have been Tisited and described b j sereral modem Imvellers,vhabaTeaka noticed the Alalactitea and incruatationa mentioned by Strain. Chandler hpeaka of a eliffas one entire incnistation, aod de- acribeait aa ''an immnue frnien caicade. the sorTice ttavj^ aa of vater at once fixed, or in ila headlmg coane Bwidenlf petrified." (See the Trarels of Po- cocke, CliBudler, Arundell, Leake, UamlltOT, and Fellowes.) .TnfCilida,kno- miiu, from nated upon ■r Pjraniuj, (•I.,j«o(t«. tAk .pi, t^ U«- »« lekiw). The name of Ihia lity ia alwaya n Hieropolls, while that of Phijiria ia Hiem- polls. Fron Ihe absence of all mention of Ibis Cilician towT by the andei t writers Eckhel jectures that 1 ia a mere rerenl name, and tha itia perhaps the «imepl«*a« MeEamus. since we find upon llie en n» of the Utt r MPr«fKr&' ^i- 'pir T# IlLlWp. (Eckhel, Tel iii. p. 57.) HIEEA'POLIS CUpi wiKis), the " S«^red Citj" of Cyrrhesliia m Syria, aituated on the high road from Antioch to Mesoptan.ia, a* M. P. to the W of the Eupliwtes and 36 M. P. to the SW. of Zengma (/lew. Tab.), 2{ days' journey from Beroi*, and 5 daja' from Antioch (Zosim. iii. 18). Hicnip<ili», or Hieropolia as it ia called alwaya en coins and in Steplianna of Ityiautium, obtained its Hellenic niime from Seleucus Nicaior (Aeiian, H. A. xli. a), OBing to the dtoumatance of Dambycb EtEBAPOLIS. (Bo^dln)), aa it na called b]' the natlTei, heby lb* chief Beat of the wonihip of the '' Synan gvUoi* Aatarte, or penonificatkn of the piiHTa p aw ua rf Natare. {Laata, de IkaSgr.c.y " Bamhyim qnae alio nomine His^nlia nealar; Syria Tero Utfop. Ibi pn)di);ioea Alai^alia, Gnedi Bulem Deteeto dicta, oolitar, Pliu. t. 19. SilEs {mi loc) haa in his text " Uabng,' which ia ibc eoma reading:, and appean in the Oriental Tonoa " !!■>- bedj'(Jaubert,e^,'"-UaDbeijnm(ScbakeiB, FitaSal^ "Henha.' " Maaha" (Scbnlteiis, Imdtx Gtn/r)- "Manbegj" (Abll-l-fedi, Tab.Sfr. f. 198). tad tb modem name Kard Bambudie, or BiigU Mw^e^ Under the Seleucidae. fnm ila ceotrsi pasiucn W- tweea Antioch and Selenceia en the delta </ ib« Tigris, It became a girat cmporiuni. Stnba (ni. p. 748) han giTw an intensting account of ihe pa- snge of the caravaoa from Syria to Sdoicea Mai Babylon; the cunfouoo uf Edeata and Eiampia m an error probably of the tiamcriber (e«np.GREkai4, ad fee). Craisus plnndereil the rich tonpk gf ib goddens, who presided orer the e hau eo to of iMw and the produdiie Beeda of lhin|^ and seb^ apa the treasures, which it took serarid iaja taw^ and eiainlne. And it *aa here that an ill taa befVilhim. (Plul. Crov. 17.) Under Constantlne, Uieragmlis beranw the eafild ofthenewpravinceLafjiiBtaiats.(Ualal.Cikw>.xiL p. 317.) Julian, in hli Persian cam[«if>ii, m^faOii Hierapolia aa the rendeivoos fur the Bunian mift before their passage of the Euphialea. He has gifa an account of his march to it. wblch tatk^ np £fi daya, in a letter to Libanioa (£p. xiriL), aad if mijned there three days, at Ihe bouse of Softts, a dislingnisbed pnpil of lamblidiua. At H>erapebi one of thou tmlucky ligna which Anuniami (niL 9. § 6} has BO carefully reconied, took place at ha enlnnoe into the town. (Comp. Gibboo, c zxjt; la Bean, Bai Empirt, vd. iii. p. 58.) With the eatabllihnieiit of Cbrialianit;, Hienpnta recovered ila ancient Indlgenona Syrian name. Ui loEt ita Bplendour and magniScence by the dovaU of the oM worship (a.d. S40> Bdhb. who eoan marided during the aheence of Belisaniu in the £■(, concenlrated hii fun.-ei at Bieiapolia, txA il ^ escaped bein([ pillaged by Chosraei by tfae payvot of tribute. (Procop. A/*. ii.S; Gibboe.c iliL: U Bean, VOL ix. p. 12.) 4. D. 1068 it wiB captsmt by the ontcnr Bo. manna Diogenes, in hi* valiant elTorta to neat ike progress of the Turla. (Zooar. toL iL p. S79; Le Beau, ToLriv.p 472.) It does not fall within the provuKe of thia aitk^ to trace the connection between Bambyce = " B^ byolna urbti," ^' Bombyciia oojaia gauderts,*' ■■«* the carious information on thii point will be fnud ia Ritler (Erdimik, vol. x. pp 1056—1063). The ruina of tfaia city were Gnt disoorai«d t»i described by Hanndrell (Journal, p. 804) and t? Pococlie(T'n». ToLii. pt.i. p. 1G6). Bat it n not till the period of Colond Chsuey'a Expediiim that til poaitu of 16 miles W. i? & (^ the paMage of KtU'-at' ta-rJM, at about 600 feet above the £i- phrales, the ruins of Hioapolia occupy the notn ef a rocky plain, where, by ita isulalfd poEitioo, the dty but likewlMi of every advantage which was likely Is create lud preserve a place of importuca.