Ancient history from the monuments: Greek cities & islands of Asia MinorVaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright)
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Ancient history from the monuments: Greek cities & islands of Asia Minor
Vaux, W. S. W. (William Sandys Wright)
Greeks -- Turkey; Turkey -- History
Pind. Pyth. i. 31, thus speaks of him and of his home:—
Τυφὼς ἑκατὸν κάρανος· τὸν ποτὲ
Κιλίκιον θρέψεν πολυώνυμον
ἅντρον.
He is also called, Pyth. viii. 26,
Τυφὼς Κίλιξ ἑκατόγκρανος.
Æschylus, too, gives him the same epithet of “hundred-headed.”—Prom.
Vinct. 350.
Footnote 93:
Pomponius Mela (i. 13) gives an even fuller description of this famous
cave, probably from the same original author, Callisthenes.
Of these we take first, SOLI, a colony (Strabo tells us) from Lindus, a
relationship the Solians did not forget during subsequent negotiations
with the Romans. Soli is first mentioned in Xenophon’s Anabasis, and
must, in the following seventy years, have rapidly increased, as
Alexander the Great fined the people 200 talents for their attachment to
the Persian empire. After having been destroyed by Tigranes, Pompey
placed there some of the Cilician pirates whom he had spared; at the
same time changing the name of the city to Pompeiopolis. Most of the
existing remains are, therefore, Roman. “The first object,” says
Beaufort, “which presented itself on landing was a beautiful harbour or
basin, with parallel sides and circular ends; it is entirely artificial,
being formed by surrounding moles or walls fifty feet in thickness and
seven feet in height.... Opposite to the entrance of the harbour a
portico rises from the surrounding quay, and opens to a double row of
two hundred columns which, crossing the town, communicates with the
principal gate towards the country; and from the outside of that gate a
paved road continues, in the same line, to a bridge over a small
river.... Even in its present state of wreck, the effect of the whole is
so imposing, that the most illiterate seaman in the ship could not
behold it without emotion.” The actual execution of these columns is,
however, poor; and, of the original two hundred, only forty-four are now
standing.[94] Soli was the birthplace of Chrysippus, Philemon, and
Aratus.
Footnote 94:
It has been said that the term σολοικσμος—_solœcismus_—_solecism_—
meaning ungrammatical speech—was derived from the people of Soli; but
this accusation is not certain (Cf. Strab. xiv. 671; Eustath. ad Dion.
Perieg. v. 875; Suidas in voce Σόλοι). There was another Soli in
Cyprus, the inhabitants of which were usually termed Solii (Σόλιοι),
to distinguish them from those on the mainland, who were termed
Σολεῖς. Both, probably, spoke but indifferent Greek.
ADANA, which is noticed first in the Mithradatic War, by Appian, and,
subsequently, by Pliny, Ptolemy, Dio Cassius, Procopius, and the
Byzantine historians, like Tarsus, adopted the name of Hadrian. It is
still a place of some size, and the capital of the Pashalik of the same
name.
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