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Chap. 32.] ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, ETC. 473 tichos and Temnos^. Upon the shore we come to the river Titanus, and the city which from it derives its name. Grynia^ also stood here on an island reclaimed from the sea and joined to the land : now only its harbours are left"*. AVe then come to the town of Elaea^ the river Caicus^, which flows from Mysia, the town of Pitane^, and the river Canaius. The fol- lowing towns no longer exist — Came^, Lysimachia^, Atarnca'", Carene^ Cisthene^^', Cilla^^ Cocylium'^^ Theba•^ Astyre'^

  • Or the " Xew Walls." Strabo speaks of it as distant thirty stadia

from Larissa. 2 Its site is unkno^Ti ; but it must not be confounded with the place of that name mentioned in the last Chapter, which stood on the sea-coast. It suffered from the great earthquake in the reign of Tiberius Caesar. 3 Or Grynium, foi'ty stadia from Myrina, and seventy from Ela^a. It contained a sanctuary of Apollo with an ancient oracle and a splendid temple of white marble. Parmenio, the general of Alexander, took the place by assault and sold the inhabitants as slaves. It is agaiu mentioned by Pliny in B. xxxii. c. 21.

  • Tliis passage seems to be in a corrupt state, and it is difficult to

arrive at Phny's exact meaning. 5 The port of the Pergameni. Strabo places it south of the river Caicus, twelve stadia from that river, and 120 from Pergamum. Its site is imcertam, but Leake fixes it at a place called KhseU, on the road from the south to Pergamum. ^ Its modern name is said to be Ak-Su or Bakir. 7 On the coast of the Elaitic gulf. It was almost destroyed by an earthquake in the reign of the Emperor Titus. Its site is by some thought to have been at SanderU. 8 Supposed to have been situate near the modem Cape Coloni. It •was here that in the war with Antiochus, B.C. 191-190, the Roman fleet was hauled up for the winter and protected by a ditch or rampart. 9 So called from Lysimachus, the son of Agathocles. ^° A strong place opposite to Lesbos. It was on the road from Adra- myttium to the plain of the Caicus. Its site is generally fixed at Dikeli Koi. " Or Carine. The army of Xerxes, on its route to the Hellespont, marched tlirough this place. Its site is unknown. ^2 It lay outside of the bay of Adramyttium and the promontory of Pyrrha. J3 Mentioned in the Iliad with Chryse and Tenedos. '^ A place called Kutchulan, or, as some Titc it, Cotschiolan-Kuni, is supposed to occupy its site. 15 Or Thcbc", in the viciiiity of Troy. J8 In the plain of Thebes between Antandros and Adramyttium. It had a temple of Artemis, of which the Antandrii had the superintendence. Its site does not appear to have been ascertained.