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 448 PLINT's NATUllAL HISTOET. [Book T. are the rivers Saros^ and Cydnus^, the latter of which, at some distance from the sea, runs through the free city of Tarsus, the region of Celenderitis with a town^ of similar name, the place where Nymphaeum^ stood. Soli of.Cilicia^, now called Pompeiopolis, Adana^, Cibyra^, Pinare^, Pedalie^, Ale, Selinus^", Arsinoe", lotape^^, Doron, and, near the sea, 2 Now called the Tersoos Chai. It is remarkable for the coldness of its waters, and it was here that Alexander the Great nearly met with his death from bathing when heated, in the stream. 3 Now Chelendreh. It was a strong place on the coast, situate on a high rock nearly surrounded by the sea. None of its ruins seem older than the early period of the Roman empire. The Turks call it Guhiare. •* Probably so called from a temple to the Sea Nymphs there. 5 To distinguish it from Soles or Soh of Cyprus. It was situate be- tween the rivers Cydnus and Lamus, and was said to have been colonized by Ai'gives and Lydians from Rhodes. Alexander mulcted its inha- bitants of 200 talents, for their adl^esion to the Persians. It was cele- brated as the birth-place of the Stoic plulosopher Chrysippus, the comic poet Philemon, and the poet and astronomer Aratus. Its name is per- petuated in the word Solecism, which is said to have been first apphed to the corrupt dialect of Greek spoken by the mhabitants of this city, or as some say, of SoU in Cyprus. ^ It still retains its ancient name, and is situate on the western side of the Sarus, now the Syhovm or Syhan. Pompey settled here some of the Cilician pirates whom he had conquered. "^ Leake, in his 'Asia Minor,' p. 196, says, "The vestiges of Cibyraare probably those observed by Captain Beaufort upon a height which rises from the right bank of a considerable river about eight miles to the eastward of the Melas, about four miles to the west of Cape Karaburnu, and nearly two miles from the shore." Ptolemy mentions Cibyra as aa inland town of Cihcia Trachea, but Scylax places it on the coast. 8 Its ruins are still called Pinara or Mmara. It was an inland city of Lycia, some distance west of the river Xanthus, and at the foot of Mount Cragus. ^ Or perhaps ' Podahe.' Of it nothing seems to be known. ^° Or Sehnuntum, now Selenti, on the coast of Cilicia. In consequence of the death here of the Emperor Trajan, it received the name of Trajano- pohs. Of Ale, if that is the correct reading, nothing whatever is knovni. ^^ On the coast of Cihcia ; mentioned by Strabo as having a port. Leake places it at or near the ruined castle called Sokhta Kalesi, below which is a port, and a peniusula on the east side of the harbour covered with ruins. '^ In the district of Selenitis. It has been identified with the site of the modern fortress of Lambardo. It is also suggested that it may have been the same place as Laerte, the native city of Diogenes Laertius. Of Doron nothing seems to be known.
 * The modern Syhou, according to Ansart.