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Chap. 35.] thus Lapethos, Solœ, Tamasos, Epidamm, Chytri, Arsinoë, Carpasium,and Golgi. The towns of Cinyria, Marium, and Idaalium are no longer in existence. It is distant from Anemurium in Cilicia fifty miles; the sea which runs between the two shores being called the Channel of Cilicia. In the same locality is the island of Eleusa, and the four

by Teucer the son of Telamon, who gave it the name of his native land from whicch he had been banished by his father


 * r1 Now called Old Limasol, a town in the south coast, celebrated for its worship of Aphrodite or Venus. It was a Phœnician settlement, and Stephanus calls it the most ancient city in the island. It long preserved its oriental customs, and here the Tyrian Hercules was worshipped under his name of Melkrat.


 * r2 Its site is now called Lapitho or Lapta.

fertile district in the middle of Cyprus, and in the neighborhood of extensive copper mines. Near it was a celberated plain, sacred to Venus, mentioned by Ovid.
 * r3 Probably the same as the Temese of Homer. It was situate in a


 * r4 Now called Chytria, a town of Cyprus on the road for Cerinea to Salamiis.

called Marion. Ptolemy Soter destroyed this town, and removed the inhabitants to Paphos. The modern name of its site is Pohkrusoko or Cirsophou, from the gold mines in the neighbourhood. There was more than one city of this name in Cyprus which was probably bestowed on them during its subjection to the princes of the line of Lagus. Another Arsinoë is placed near Ammochostus to the north of the island, and a third of the same name appears in Strabo with a harbour, temple and grove, between Old and New Paphos.
 * r5 In the east Cyprus, near the Promontory of Acamas, formerly


 * r6 Or Carpasia to the north-east of the island, facing the Promontory of Sarpedon on the Cillcian coast. It was said to have been founded by Pygmalion, king of Tyre. Pococke speaks of remains at Carpas, the site of this place, especially a long wall and a pier.


 * r7 Or Golgos, famous for the worship of Aphrodite or Venus, which had existed here even before its introduction at Paphos by Agapenor. Its position is unknown.
 * r8 Or Idaha, adjoining to which was a forest sacred to Aphrodite The poets, who connect this place with her worship, give us no indications whatever of Its precise locality. Engel identifies it with the modern Dalin, situate to the south of Leucosia, at the foot of Mount Olympus.

Pliny alludes to the one lying off the coast of Caria between the isle of Rhodes and the mainland, and which seems to be the island marked Alessa m the maps. There was another of the same name close to the snore ot Cihcia, afterwards known by the name of Sebaste.
 * r9 Now Cape Anamur.
 * r10 "Aulon Cilicium," now the Sea of Caramania or Cyprus
 * r11 The Cilcian Sea, namely.
 * r12 There were several islands of this name. It is not improbable that

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