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 B. xir. c. in. 8. PONTUS 289 the greater part of Phrygia Epictetus, and a part also of Bithynia, so that it is distant from Nicomedia a little more than 300 stadia, where the river Gallus unites with it. The latter river has its source at Modra in Phrygia on the Helles- pont, which is the same country as the Epictetus, and was formerly occupied by the Bithynians. The Sangarius thus increased in bulk, and navigable, al- though not so formerly, is the boundary of Bithynia at the part of the coast where it discharges itself. In front of this coast is the island Thynia. In the territory of Heracleia grows the aconite. This city is distant from the temple at Chalcedon about 1500, and from the Sangarius 500, stadia. 8. Tieium is now a small town and has nothing remarkable belonging to it, except that it was the birth-place of Philetasrus, the founder of the family of the Attalic kings. Next is the river Parthenius, flowing through a country abounding with flowers; from these it obtained its name. 1 Its source is in Paphlagonia. Then succeeded Paphlagonia, and the Heneti. It is a question what Heneti the poet means, when he says, " the brave Pylaemenes led the Paphlagonians out of the country of the Heneti, where they have a race of wild mules ; " 2 for at present, they say, no Heneti are to be found in Paphla- gonia. Others say that it is a village on the shore distant ten scho3ni from Amastris. But Zenodotus writes the verse in this manner, " From Heneta," and says that it means the present Amisus. According to others it was a tribe border- ing upon the Cappadocians, which engaged in an expedition with the Cimmerians, and were afterwards driven away into Adria. But the account most generally received is, that the Heneti were the most considerable tribe of the Paphlagonians ; that Pylaemenes was descended from it ; that a large body of this people accompanied him to the Trojan war ; that when they had lost their leader they passed over to Thrace upon the capture of Troy ; and in the course of their wanderings arrived at the present Henetic territory. Some writers say that both Antenor and his sons partici- pated in this expedition, and settled at the inner recess of the 1 The virgin river, from its flowers and tranquil course. 2 II. ii. 851. VOL. u. u