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452 pliny's natural history. [Book V. Tetrarchy of L^'^caonia in that part which joins np to Galatia, containing fourteen states, with the famous city of Iconiuni In Lycaonia itself the most noted places are Thebasa^ on Taurus, and Hyde, on the confines of Gralatia and Cappa- docia. On the [western] side of Lycaonia, and above Pam- phylia, come the Milyse^, a people descended from the Thracians ; their city is Arycanda. CHAP. 26. PAMPHYLIA. The former name of Pamphylia'* was Mopsopia®. The Pamphylian Sea^ joins up to that of Cilicia. The towns of Pamphylia are Side, Aspendum*^, situate on the side of a mountain, Pletenissum^, and Perga^°. There is also the Pro- montory of LeucoUa, the mountain of Sardemisus, and the 1 Tconiura was regarded in the time of Xenoplion as the easternmost town of Phrygia, while all the later authorities described it as the prin- cipal city of Lycaonia. In the Acts of the Apostles it is described as a very populous city, uihabited by Grreeks and Jews. Its site is now called Kunjah or Koniyeh. 2 It has been suggested that this may be the Tarbassus of Artemidorus, quoted by Strabo. Hyde was in later times one of the episcopal cities of Lycaonia. 3 Their district is called Melyas by Herodotus, B. i. c. 173. The city of Arycanda is unknown. ^ United with Cihcia it now forms the province of Caramania or Ker- manieh. It was a narrow strip of the southern coast of Asia Minor, extending in an arch along the Pamphylian Grulf between Lycia on the west, Cilicia on the east, and on the north bordering on Pisidia. ^ Tradition ascribed the first Grreck settlements in this country to Mopsus, son of Apollo (or of Rhacius), after the Trojan war. ^ Now called the Gulf of Adaha, lying between Cape KheHdonia and Cape Anemour. 7 Now called Candeloro, according to D'AnviUe and Beaufort. 8 Or Aspendus, an Argeian colony on the river Euiymedon. The " mountain " of Phny is notlung but a hill or piece of elevated ground. It is supposed that it still retains its ancient name. In B. xxxi. c. 7, Pliny mentions a salt lake in its vicinity. ^ Hardouin suggests that the correct reading is 'Petnelessum.' ^^ A city of remarkable splendour, between the rivers Catarrhaetes and Cestrus, sixty stadia from the mouth of the former. It was a celebrated scat of the worship of Artemis or Diana. In the later Roman empire it was the capital of Pamphyha Secunda. It was the first place visited by St. Paul in Asia Minor. See Acts, xiii. 13 and xiv. 25. Its splendid ruins are still to be seen at Murtana, sixteen miles north-east of Adaiia.