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 464 plint's natural history. [Book Y. tlie district of Berecyntlius Nysa^, and Tralles^, also called Euanthia^, Seleucia, and Antiochia: it is washed by the river Eudon, wliile the Thebais runs through it. Some authors say that a nation of Pygmies formerly dwelt here. Besides the preceding towns, there are Thydonos, Pyrrha^, Eurome®, Heraclea', Amyzon^, the free town of Alabanda^, which has given name to that jurisdiction, the free town of Stratonicea^**, Hynidos, Ceramus^^ Trcezene^^, and Phorontis. ' The situation of this district is not known. See B. xvi. c. 16, where it appears that this region was famous for its boxwood. 2 One of the numerous places of that name devoted to the worship of Bacchus. It was built on both sides of the ravine of the brook Eudon, which fell into the Mteander. Its ruins are to be seen at Sultan-Hissar, a httle to the west of HazeH. 3 Its ruins are to be seen at Grhiuzel-Hissar, near Aidin. This was a flourishing commercial city, included sometimes in Ionia, sometimes in Caria. It stood on the banks of the Eudon, a tributary of the river Mseander. Under the Seleucidse it was called Antiochia and Seleucia. 4 From the beauty and fertility of the surrounding country. 5 An Ionic town of Caria, on the north side of the Sinus Latmicus, fifty stadia from the mouth of the Mseander. 6 Or Euromus, a town of Caria, at the foot of Mount Grion, which runs parallel with Latmos. Ruins of a temple to the north-west of Ala- banda are considered to belong to Euromus. 7 A town of uncertain site. It must not be confounded with the place of the same name, mentioned in c. 31 of the present Book. 8 The ruins of its citadel and walls still exist on the east side of Mount Latmos, on the road from Bafi to Tchisme. 9 Situate about twenty miles south of Tralles, The modern site is doubtful, but Arab Hissa, on a branch of the Mteander, now called the Tchma. is supposed to represent Alabanda. It was notorious for the luxuriousness of its inhabitants. A stone found in the vicinity was used for making glass and glazing vessels. See B. xxxvi. c. 13. ^" Built by Antiochus I. Soter, and named, in honovir of his wife, Stra- tonice. It stood south of Alabanda, near the river Marsyas. It is sup- posed that it stood on the site of a former city called Idrias, and still earlier, Chrysaoris. ^^ D'AnvHle identifies it with a place called Keramo, but no such place appears to be known. Strabo places it near the sea between Cnidus and Halicarnass'iis, and Ceramus comes next after Cnidus. Ptolemy seems to place it on the south side of the bay. Of Hynidos nothing appears to be known. ^2 Its situation is unknown ; but there can be httle doubt that it was founded by the Dorians who emigrated to the coast of Asia Minor from Argolis and Trcezene m the Peloponnesus. Phorontis appears to be unknown.