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Chap. 32.] ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, ETC. 475 with a town of the same name. Again, on the coast we meet with Antanclros formerly called Edonis, and after that Cimmeris and Assos, also called Apollonia. The town of Palamedium also formerly stood here. The PromontorT of Lecton"" separates -3!^olis from Troas. In ^'Eolis there was formerly the city of Polymedia, as also Chrysa, and a second Larissa. The temple of Smintheus^ is still standing ; Colone'* in the interior has perished. To Adramyttium resort upon matters of legal business the Apolloniatae*, whose town is on the river Rhyndacus^, the Erizii, the Miletopolitse^, the Poemaneni^, the Macedonian Asculacte, the Polichnaei^", the Pionitae^ the Cilician Mandacadeni, and, in Mysia, the Abrettini*'-, the people known as the Hellespontii^^, and others of less note. fatnous for its fertility. The modem village of Ine is supposed to occupy the site of the ancient town of Gargara. 1 Now Antandro, at the head of the Gulf of Adramyttium. Aristotle also says that its former name was Edonis, and that it was inhabited by a Thracian tribe of Edoni. Herodotus as well as Aristotle also speak of the seizure of the place by the Cinimerii in their incursion into Asia. 2 Now Cape Baba or Santa Maria, the south-west promontory of the Troad. 3 Or Sminthian Apollo. This appears to have been situate at the Chrysa last mentioned by Phny as no longer in existence. Strabo places Chrvsa on a hill, and he mentions the temple of Smintheus and sj)eak3 of a symbol which recorded the etymon of that name, the mouse which lay at the foot of the wooden figiire, the work of 8coi)as. Accoriling to an ancient tradition, Apollo had lus name of Smintheus givi-n him as being the mouse-destroyer, for, accorduig to Apion, the meaning of Smin- theus was a " mouse," ^ AccorcUng to tradition this place was in early times the residence of Cycnus, a Tlu-acian prince, -who possessed the adjoining country, and the island of Tenedos, opposite to which Colone was bituatc on the mainland. Pliny however here places it in the interior. 5 The site of this Apollonia is at Abulliontc, on a lake of the same name, the Apolloniatis of Strabo. Its remains are very inconsiderable. ^ Or Lvcus, now known as the Edrenos. 7 Of this people nothing whatever is known. " D'Anville thiiika that the modem BaU-Kcsri occupies the site of Miletopolis. " Stephanus Byzantinus mentions a place called IVmaiiinum near Cvzicus. ^'^ The hihabitants of rolit-hna, a town ol the Truud. '* The people of Pionia, near .Sce]>sis and Gargara. ^2 They occupied the greater part of Mysia Proper. They had a native divinity to which they paid peculiar honours, by the Greeks caiUd Atvs 'ASpeTT7]v69. ^^ The same as the Olympeni or Olynipii-ni, in the district of Oljmpcne