From Calpe to Rhoe Portus 20 ſtadia. I do not find this place mentioned by any other Writer. From Rhoe Portus to Apollonian Inſula 20 ſtadia. This iſland, Was ſacred to Apollo, as We learn from [1]Apollonius Rhodius, and from thence had its name. It was uſually called Thynias; or Daphnufa. It appears to have been uninhabited in early times. It is called Kerbeh, or Kirbe, in the modern maps.
From Apollonian to Chelas 20 ftadia. The diſtance from Pfilis to Chelas is ſet down in the Peutingerian Tables as 20 [2]miles, equal to 160 ſtadia. It is ſet down in Ptolemy 20′ to the eaſt of Calpe. In Arrian the ſame ſpace is reckoned to be 270 ſtadia, or 33.75 Greek miles. This river is now called by the Greeks Ava, or Ayala; but Tournefort ſays, the Turks call it Sagari, or Sacari; by the former of which names it appears both in the Peutingerian Tables, and in modern maps. This river was the boundary between Cappadocia and Bithynia. Tournefort ſays, he found no river between the Rhebas and the Sangarius. This river is mentioned by Homer in two [3]places, as a river of Phrygia, ſo that its ancient name has been continued through many ages.
[4]Apollonius notices the mouth of this river, as appearing to the Argonauts early in the morning, on the third day of their voyage from the entrance of the Euxine ſea.
Arrian ſays, it is 990 ſtadia from the temple of Jupiter Urius to
- ↑ Argon. lib. ii. veriſ 688, 689.
- ↑ Q. if not 28 miles = 224 ſtadia.
- ↑ Iliad iii. verſ. 187. Il. xvi. verif 719.
- ↑ Argon. lib. ii. verſ 724. The Scholilſt fays, there was a temple of Cybele at the mouth of the river, called ὀρείας Δήμητρος ἱερὸν, probably to mark the boundary between the countries. In like manner Jupiter was under certain circumstances called Ζεῦς ὀρείος, or Δίος ὀρείος, and in the Latin, Jupiter terminalis.
