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 322 STRABO. CASA.UB. 568. parts. In this district there are two lakes, the greater Coralis, the smaller T-rogitis. Somewhere here is Iconium, 1 a small town, well tmilt, about which is a more fertile tract of land than the pastures for the wild asses before mentioned. Polemo possessed this place. Here the Taurus approaches this country, separating Cap- padocia and Lycaonia from Cilicia Tracheia. It is the bound- ary of the Lycaonians and Cappadocians, between Coropassus, a village of the Lycaonians, and Gareathyra (Garsaura), a small town of the Cappadocians. The distance between these fortressess is about 120 stadia. 2. To Lycaonia belongs Isaurica, near the Taurus, in which are the Isaura, two villages of the same name, one of which is surnamed Palrea, or the Old, the other [the New], the latter is well fortified. 2 There were many other villages dependent upon these. They are all of them, however, the dwellings of robbers. They occasioned much trouble to the Romans, and to Publius Servilius, surnamed Isauricus, with whom I was acquainted ; he subjected these places to the Romans, and destroyed also many of the strong-holds of the pirates, situated upon the sea. 3. Derbe, 3 the royal seat of the tyrant Antipater, surnamed Derbaetes, is on the side of the Isaurian territory close upon Cappadocia. Laranda 4 also belonged to Antipater. In my time Amyntas attacked and killed Antipater Derbaetes, and got possession of the Isaura and of Derbe. The Romans gave him the Isaura where he built a palace for himself, after having destroyed Isauria Palaea (the Old). He began to build in the same place a new wall, but before its completion he was killed by the Cilicians in an ambuscade, when invading the country of the Homonadeis. 4. For being in possession of Antiocheia near Pisidia, and the country as far as Apollonias, 5 near Apameia Cibotus, 6 some parts of the Paroreia, and Lycaonia, he attempted to exter- minate the Cih'cians and Pisidians, who descended from the Taurus and overran this district, which belonged to the Phrygians and Cilicians (Lycaonians). He razed also many 1 Konia. 2 Meineke's correction. 3 Its position is uncertain, probably Divle, to the S. of the Lake Ak-Gol. See Smith, art. Derbe.
 * Caraman. 5 Tschol-Abad. Aphiom Kara Hissar.