B. xii. c, vni. 21. PHRYGIA. 337 the disciples of Erasistratus under the conduct of Hicesius. At present there is nothing of this kind. 21. The names of some Phrygian tribes, as the Berecyntes [and Cerbesii], are mentioned, which no longer exist. And Alcman says, "He played the Cerbesian, a Phrygian air." They speak also of a Cerbesian pit which sends forth destruc- tive exhalations ; this however exists, but the people have no longer the name of Cerbesii. ^Eschylus in his Niobe 1 con- founds them ; Niobe says that she shall remember Tantalus, and his story ; " those who have an altar of Jupiter, their paternal god. on life Idaean hill," and again ; " Sipylus in the Idaean land," and Tantalus says, " I sow the furrows of the Berecynthian fields, extending twelve days' journey, where the seat of Adrasteia and Ida resound with the lowing of herds and the bleating of sheep ; all the plain re-echoes with their cries." 1 The Niobe, a lost tragedy of Sophocles, is often quoted ; this is pro- bably here meant.
