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 462 I'LIft's natural history. [Eook V. Marsyas had tbe musical contest with Apollo as to supe- riority of skill in playing on the flute. Aulocrenae is the name given to a valley which lies ten miles on the road towards Phiygia from Apamea. As belonging to this juris- diction, it may be as well to mention the Metropolitae the Dionysopolita)-, the Euphorbeni^, the Acmonenses^, the Pel- teni®, and the SiJbiani^ besides nine other nations of no note. Upon the Grulf of Doris^ we have Leucopolis, Hamaxitos, Eleus, and Euthene^. We then come to Pitaium, Eutane^, and Halicarnassus^", towns of Caria. To the jurisdiction of this last place six towns were appended by Alexander the Great, Theaugela^ Sibde, Medmasa, Euralium, Pedasus, and Telmissus^^. Halicarnassus lies between two gulfs, those of Ceramus" and lasus^*. We then come to Myn- present Book. His account however is very confused, as be mentions on diiferent occasions a region of Aulocrene, a valley of Aulocrene, and a mountain of Aulocrene. ^ People of " the Mother City," said by Stephen of Byzantium to have received that name from Cybele, the Mother of the Gods. 2 Notlung is knowTi of the site of Dionysopohs. It is mentioned in a letter of Cicero's to his brother Quintus, in which he speaks of the people of this place as being very hostile to the latter. 3 The site of Euphorbium is denoted, according to Leake, by the mo- dern Sandukh. It lay between Synnas and Apamea, and not impro- bably, like Eucarpia, received its name from the fertihty of its territory. ■* The site of Acmona has been fixed at Ahatkoi, but it seems doubtful. ^ The site of Pelta is by D'Anville called Eis-Chak or Hou-Chak. ^ The people of Silbium or Silbia, near Metropolis. 7 The Dorian settlements on the coast of Caria were so called. The Dorian Gilf was probably the Sinus Ceramicus mentioned below. 8 Of these places nothing whatever seems to be known. ^ Pitaium and Eutane seem to be unknown. ^^ A member of the Dorian HexapoUs, or League of the Six Cities. Tlie site of this famous city is occupied by the modern Boodroima, and its ruins are very extensive. It was famous as being the birth-place of the two historians Herodotus and Dionysius. It was the largest and best fortified city of Caria. " According to Parisot the site of tliis place is now called Angeh and Karabaglas. ^2 This place must not be confounded with Telmessus or Telmissus in Lycia, which has been previously mentioned. It was situate six miles from Hahcarnassus. Of the other places here mentioned nothing seems to be known. ^3 Now the Gulf of Staneo, Kos, or Boodroum. It took its name from the port of Ceramus, now Keramo, according to D'Anville. ^* Now the Gulf of MandoHyeh. It took its name from the city of lasus, the site of which is now called Askem or Asyn-Kalessi.