[102] These innovations or corruptions were not confined to the composition of pieces intended for the theatre, but extended also to the manner of their representation, to music, dancing, and the costume of the actors. It was an absolute plague, which corrupted taste, and finally destroyed the Greek theatre. We are not informed of the detail of these innovations, but from what we are able to judge by comparing Strabo with what is found in Athenæus, (b. xiv. § 14, p. 990, of Bohn’s Classical Library,) Simodia was designated by the name of Hilarodia, (joyous song,) and obtained the name Simodia from one Simus, or Simon, who excelled in the art. The Lysiodi and Magodi, or Lysodia and Magodia, were the same thing, according to some writers. Under these systems decency appears to have been laid aside. [103] Od. ix. 3. [104] Aidin-Gusel-Hissar. [105] The chain of mountains between the Caÿster and the Mæander, the different eminences of which bear the names of Samsun-dagh, Gumusch-dagh, Dsehuma-dagh, &c. [106] Sultan-Hissar. [107] The Tralli Thracians appear to have acted as mercenary soldiers, according to Hesychius. [108] Groskurd supplies the word πρόσκεινται. [109] Groskurd reads τοιούτων, for τοσούτων in the text. Coraÿ proposes νοσούντων. [110] Meineke’s conjecture is followed, λίπα ἀληλιμμένοι, for ἀπαληλιμμένοι. [111] Groskurd’s emendation of this corrupt passage is adopted, ὑπερβᾶσι τὴν Μεσωγίδα ἐπὶ τὰ πρὸς τὸν νότον μέρη Τμώλου τοῦ ὄρους. [112] Il. ii. 461. [113] Arpas-Kalessi. [114] Mastauro. [115] Adopting Kramer’s correction of Καρίας for παραλίας. [116] Cape Arbora. [117] Schelidan Adassi islands, opposite Cape Chelidonia. [118] Near Gudschek, at the bottom of the Gulf of Glaucus, now Makri. [119] The Phœnix (Phinti?) rises above the Gulf of Saradeh. [120] Alessa, or, according to others, Barbanicolo. [121] Dalian. [122] Doloman-Ischai. [123] Kramer suggests the words ὑπομέλανας καὶ, for the corrupt reading, ἐπιμελῶς. [124] Il. vi. 146. [125] The Caunians were aborigines of Caria, although they affected to come from Crete.—_Herod._ i. 72. [126] Castro Marmora. The gulf on which it stands is still called Porto Fisko. [127] Chares flourished at the beginning of the third century B. C. The accounts of the height of the Colossus of Rhodes differ slightly, but all agree in making it 105 English feet. It was twelve years in erecting, (B. C. 292-280,) and it cost 300 talents. There is no authority for the statement that its legs extended over the mouth of the harbour. It was overthrown 56 years after its erection. The fragments of the Colossus remained on the ground 923 years, until they were sold by Moawiyeh, the general of the Caliph Othman IV., to a Jew of Emessa, who carried them away on 900 camels, A. D. 672. Hence Scaliger calculated the weight of the bronze at 700,000 pounds.—_Smith’s Dict. of Biog. and Mythology._