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 B. xin. c. iv. 1517. HIERAPOLIS. 409 the marine purple. There is such an abundance of water, that there are natural baths in every part of the city. 15. After Hierapolis are the parts beyond the Mseander. Those about Laodiceia and Aphrodisias, 1 and those extend- ing to Carura, have been already described. The places which succeed are Antiocheia 2 on the Masander, now belonging to Caria, on the west ; on the south are Cibyra the Great, 3 Sinda, 4 and Cabalis, as far as Mount Taurus and Lycia. Antiocheia is a city of moderate size situated on the banks of the Mseander, at the side towards Phrygia. There is a bridge over the river. A large tract of country, all of which is fertile, on each side of the river, belongs to the city. It produces in the greatest abundance the fig of Antioch, as it is called, which is dried. It is also called Triphyllus. This place also is subject to shocks of earthquakes. A native of this city was Diotrephes, a celebrated sophist ; his disciple was Hybreas, the greatest orator of our times. 16. The Cabaleis, it is said, were Solymi. The hill situ- ated above the Termessian fortress is called Solymus, and the Termessians themselves Solymi. Near these places is the rampart of Bellerophon and the sepulchre of Peisandrus his son, who fell in the battle against the Solymi. This account agrees with the words of the poet. Of Bellerophon he speaks thus, " he fought a second time with the brave Solymi;" 5 and of his son, " Mars, tmsated with war, killed Peisandrus his son fighting with the Solymi." 6 Termessus is a Pisidian city situated very near and immedi- ately above Cibyra. 1 7. The Cibyrata3 are said to be descendants of the Lydians who occupied the territory Cabalis. The city was afterwards in the possession of the Pisidians, a bordering nation, who occupied it, and transferred it to another place, very strongly fortified, the circuit of which was about 100 stadia, It flourished in con- sequence of the excellence of its laws. The villages belonging to it extended from Pisidia, and the bordering territory Milyas, as far as Lycia and the country opposite to Ehodes. Upon the 1 Geira. 2 Jenedscheh. 3 Chorsum. 4 Dekoi. 5 I. vi. 184. 6 II, vi. 203.