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 472 plikt's natural histoet. [Book V. Caesarienses the Metropolitae^ the Cilbiani^, "both the Lower and Upper, the Mysomacedones"*, the Mastaurenses", the Briiditae^, the H^^psepeni^, and the Dioshieritae^. CHAP. 32. (30.)— ^OLIS. JEolis^ comes next, formerly known as Mysia, and Troas which is adjacent to the Hellespont. Here, after passing Phocsea, we come to the Ascanian Port, then the spot where Larissa^" stood, and then Cyme' Myrina, also called Sebas- topolis^"^, and in the interior, Mgse^^, Attalia^'*, Posidea, Neon- 1 The people, it is supposed, of a place called Hierocsesarea. 2 The people probably of Metropolis in Lydia, now Turbali, a city on the plain of the Cayster, between Ephesus and Smyrna. Cilbis, perhaps the present Durgut, was their cliief place. 3 A people dwelling in the upper valley of Cayster. 4 Or Mysian Macedonians. 5 The people of Mastaura in Lydia. Its site is stiU known as Mas- taura-Kalesi. * 6 The people of Briida, the site of which is unknown. ' The people of Hypaepae, a small town of Lydia, on the southern slope of Mount Tmolus, forty-two miles from Ephesus. Under the Persian supremacy, the worship of Fire was introduced at this place. Arachne, the spinner, and competitor with Minerva, is represented by Ovid as dwelling at this place; he calls it on two occasions "the little Hypsepse." Leake is of opinion that the ruins seen at Bereki belong to this place. a small place in Ionia between Lebedus and Colophon. It has been sug- gested that it was on the banks of the Cayster, but its site is uncertain. ^ ^olis, properly so called, extended as far north as the promontory of Lectum, at the northern entrance of the bay of Adramyttium. ^* Near Cyme, a place of Pelasgian origin. It was called Egyptian Larissa, because Cyrus the Great settled here a body of his Egyptian soldiers. According to D'AnviUe its site is stiU known as Larusar. 1* Said to have been so called from Cyme an Amazon. It was on the northern, side of the Hermus : Herodotus gives it the surname of Phri- conis. Its site is supposed to be at the modern SanderH or Sandarho. The father of the poet Hesiod was a native of tliis place. '2 It was probably so called in honour of the Emperor Augustus. ^"* Situate at a short distance from the coast. We learn from Tacitus that it suffered from the great earthquake in the time of Tiberius. Its site is called Guzel-Hissar, according to D'Anville. ^•* Originally named Agi'oeira or Alloeira. There is a place stQl called Adala, on the river Hermus, but Hamilton found no remains of anti- quity there.
 * The people of Dios Hieron, or the " Temple of Jupiter." This was