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 450 plikt's natural HISTOET, [Book V. Seleucia^ upon the river Calycadnus, surnamed Tracheotis, a city removed^ from the sea-shore, where it had the name of Hohnia. Besides those already mentioned, there are in the interior the rivers Liparis^ Bombos, Paradisus, and Mount Imbarus^. CHAP. 23. — ISAUBIA AND THE HOMONADES. All the geographers have mentioned Pamphylia as joining up to Cilicia, without taking any notice of the people of Isauria'. Its cities are, in the interior, Isaura^ Clibanus, and Lalasis ; it runs down towards the sea by the side of Anemurium'" already mentioned. In a similar manner also, all who have treated of this subject have been ignorant of the existence of the nation of the Homonades bordering upon Isaiu-ia, and their toTi of Homona^ in the interior. There are forty-four other fortresses, which lie concealed amid rugged crags and valleys. 1 Its ruins are called Selefkeh. This was an important city of Seleucia Aspera, bililt by Seleucus I. on the western bank of the river Calycadnus. It had an oracle of Apollo, and annual games m honour of Zeus Olympms. It was a free city under the Romans. It was here that Frederick Bar- barossa, the emperor of G-ermany, died. Its ruins are picturesque and pici'GnsiVG 2 Meaning that the inhabitants of Hohnia were removed by Seleucua to his new city of Seleucia. 3 Said by Yitruvius to have had the property of anomtmg those who bathed in its waters. If so, it probably had its name from the Greek word Xnrapbs, " fat." It flowed past the town of Soloe. Bombos and Paradisus are rivers which do not appear to have been identified. ■♦ A branch of the Taurus range. ^ ^ 5 It bordered in the east on Lycaonia, in the north on Phrygia, m the west on Pisidia, and in the south on Cihcia and PamphyHa. 6 A weU-fortified city at the foot of Mount Taurus. It was twice destroyed, first by its inhabitants when besieged by Perdiccas, and again by the Roman general Servihus Isauricus. Strabo says that Amyntas of. Galatea built a new city in its vicinity out of the rums of the old one. P'AnviUe and others have identified the site of Old Isauria with the: ■ modem Bei Sheher, and they are of opinion that Seidi Shehcr occupies the site of New Isaura, but Hamilton thinks that the ruins on a hill near the village of Olou Bounar mark the site of New Isaura. Of the two next places nothing seems to be known at the present day. 7 In the last Chapter. 8 In Pisidia, at the southern extremity of Lake Caralitis. Tacitus, Annals, iii. 48, says that this people possessed forty-four fortresses :