3. Next to the Coracesium is the city Syedra;[226] then Hamaxia,[227] a small town upon a hill, with a harbour, to which is brought down timber for ship-building; the greatest part of it consists of cedar. This country seems to produce this tree in abundance. It was on this account that Antony assigned it to Cleopatra, as being capable of furnishing materials for the construction of her fleet. Then follows Laertes a fortress, situated upon the crest of a hill, of a pap-like form; a port belongs to it; next, the city Selinus,[228] then Cragus, a precipitous rock on the sea-coast; then Charadrus[229] a fortress, which has a port (above it is the mountain Andriclus[230]) and a rocky shore, called Platanistus, next Anemurium[231] a promontory, where the continent approaches nearest to Cyprus, towards the promontory Crommyum,[232] the passage across being 350 stadia. From the boundaries of Pamphylia to Anemurium, the voyage along the Cilician coast is 820 stadia; the remainder of it as far as Soli[233] is about 500 stadia (1500?). On this coast, after Anemurium, the first city is Nagidus, then Arsinoë,[234] with a small port; then a place called Melania,[235] and Celenderis[236] a city, with a harbour. Some writers,[237] among whom is Artemidorus, consider this place as the commencement of Cilicia, and not Coracesium. He says, that from the Pelusiac mouth to Orthosia are 3900 stadia, and to the river Orontes[238] 1130 stadia; then to the gates of Cilicia 525 stadia, and to the borders of Cilicia 1260 stadia.[239] 4. Next is Holmi,[240] formerly inhabited by the present Seleucians; but when Seleucia on the Calycadnus was built, they removed there. On doubling the coast, which forms a promontory called Sarpedon,[241] we immediately come to the mouth of the Calycadnus.[242] Zephyrium[243] a promontory is near the Calycadnus. The river may be ascended as far as Seleucia, a city well peopled, and the manners of whose inhabitants are very different from those of the people of Cilicia and Pamphylia. In our time there flourished at that place remarkable persons of the Peripatetic sect of philosophers, Athenæus and Xenarchus. The former was engaged in the administration of the affairs of state in his own country, and for some time espoused the party of the people; he afterwards contracted a friendship with Murena, with whom he fled, and with whom he was captured, on the discovery of the conspiracy against Augustus Cæsar; but he established his innocence, and was set at liberty by Cæsar. When he returned from Rome, he addressed the first persons who saluted him, and made their inquiries, in the words of Euripides— “I come from the coverts of the dead, and the gates of darkness.”[244] He survived his return but a short time, being killed by the fall, during the night, of the house in which he lived.