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Chap. 29.] ACCOUNT OF COTTNTEIES, ETC. 461 from Synnas^ ; to it resort the Lycaones'^, the Applani^, the Eucarpcni"*, the Dorylsei", the Midaei, the Jidienses^, and fifteen other peoples of no note. The third jurisdiction has its seat at Apamea^, formerly called Celaenae^, and after that Cibotos. This place is situate at the foot of Mount Signia, the Marsyas, the Obrima, and the Orga, rivers Avhich fall into the Mseander, flowing past it. Here the Marsyas, rising from the earth, again makes its appearance, but soon after buries itself once more at Aulocrense^, the spot where ^ Situate in the nortli of Phrygia Sakitaris ; its ruins being probably those to be seen at Afioiu'-Kara-Hisar. From the time of Constantine tliis place became the capital of Phrygia Salutaris. It stood in a fi-uitful plain, near a raoimtain quarry of the celebrated Synnadic marble, which was white ^^•ith red veins and spots. This marble was also called " Doci- miticus," from Docimia, a nearer place. 2 As already mentioned in C- 2-5 of the present Book. 3 The site of Appia does not appear to be known. Cicero speaks of an apphcation made to him by the Appiani, when he was governor of Cilicia, respecting the taxes with which they were burdened, and the buildings of their town. ^ Eucarpia was a town of Phrygia, not far from the sources of the Mreandcr, on the road from Doryla?um to Apamea Cibotus. The vine grew there in great luxuriance, and to its fruit fulness the town probably owed its name. Kiepert places it in the vicmity of Segielar, but its exact site is imknown. 5 The site of Dorylseum is now called Eski-Shehr. The hot-baths here ai'e mentioned by Athenjeus, and its waters were pleasant to the taste. 8heep-feechng appears to have been carried on here to a gi'cat extent, and under the Greek empire it was a flourishing place. The site of Midseum does not seem to be known. " The people of Juha, .Tuliopolis, or Julianopohs, a town of Lydia, probably to the south of Mount Tmolus. 7 This place was built near Cclsenae by Antiochus Soter, and named after his mother Apama. Strabo says that it lay at the mouth of the river Marsyas. Its site has been fixed at the modem Denair. Some ancient ruins are to be seen. •' Pliny commits an error here ; Celoenoc was a diflercnt place from Apamea, though close to it. 9 Meaning the " Fountains of the Pipe," and probably deriving its name from the legend here mentioned by Pliny, and in B. xvi. c. 4-t. Strabo describes the Marsyas and Ma^ander as rising, according to report, in one lak(^ above CeliTcnie* which produced reeds adapted for making the mouth-pieces of musical instruments, but he gives no name to the lake. Hamilton found near Denair or Apamea, a lake nearly two miles in cir- cumference, full of reeds and rushes, which he looks u]ion as the lake on the mountain Aulocrene, described by Pliny in the 31bt Chapter of the