[27] Ὅς σφι ψῆγμα χρυσοῦ καταφορέων ἐκ τοῦ Τμώλου διὰ μέσης τῆς ἀγορῆς ῥέει, καὶ ἔπειτα ἐς τὸν Ἕρμον ποταμὸν ἐκδιδοῖ, ὁ δὲ ἐς θάλασσαν. _Lib._ v. _cap._ 101. And _Strabo_ says, _Lib._ xiii. _p._ 625. Ῥεῖ δ’ ὁ Πακτωλὸς ἀπὸ τοῦ Τμώλου, καταφέρων τὸ παλαιὸν χρυσοῦ ψῆγμα πολύ· ἀφ’ οὗ τὸν Κροίσου λεγόμενον πλοῦτον, καὶ τῶν προγόνων αὐτοῦ διονομασθῆναί φασί. [28] _Passaque ab auriferis tellus exire metallis_ _Pactolon, qua culta secat non vilior Hermus._ Lucan. Lib. iii. ℣. 209. [29] Lib. xxxvi. cap. 14. _Summa miracula, epistylia tantae molis attolli potuisse_, etc. See mention of this difficulty in Wotton’s _Reflections upon ancient and modern learning_, pag. 67. edit. 1694. [30] _Epistolae quatuor_, _pag._ 136, 137. [31] Ἕρμος, says _Strabo_, Lib. xiii. pag. 626. ἐξ ὄρους ἱεροῦ τῆς Δινδυμένης εἰς τὴν Σαρδιανὴν φέρεται, κατὰ τὰ συνεχῆ πεδία, μέχρι τῆς θαλάττης. [32] _Iliad._ β′. ℣. 863 Τὼ Γυγαίη τέκε λίμνη, Oἳ καὶ Μῄονας ἦγον ὑπὸ Τμώλῳ γεγαῶτας. [33] Ἐν δὲ σταδίοις τεσσαράκοντα ἀπὸ τῆς πόλεως ἐστὶν ἡ Γυγαία μὲν ὑπὸ τοῦ ποιητοῦ λεγομένη. _Strab._ ubi supra. [34] Ὑπέρκειται τῶν Σάρδεων ὁ Τμῶλος, εὔδαιμον ὄρος. _Strabo_, Lib. xiii. pag. 625. [35] Ovid. Met. Lib. xi. ℣. 150. _Riget arduus alto_ _Tmolus in ascensu; clivoque extensus utroque_ _Sardibus hinc, illinc parvis finitur Hypaepis._ Ὕπαιπα δὲ πόλις ἐστὶ καταβαίνουσιν ἀπὸ τοῦ Τμώλου εἰς τὸ τοῦ Καΰστρου πεδίον. Lib. xiii. pag. 627. [36] Ὁ μέν γε Τμῶλος ἱκανῶς συνῆπται, καὶ περιγραφὴν ἔχει μετρίαν, ἐν αὐτοῖς ἀφοριζόμενος τοῖς Λυδίοις μέρεσιν· ἡ δὲ μεσόγαιος εἰς τὸ ἀντικείμενον μέρος διατείνει μέχρι Μυκάλης. _L._ xiii. p. 629. And a little after: Τῷ δὴ Καῦστριανῷ πεδίῳ μεταξὺ πίπτοντι τῆς τε Μεσωγειότητος, καὶ τοῦ Τμώλου, συνεχές ἐστι πρὸς ἑὼ τὸ Κιλβιανὸν πεδίον. [37] The modern name _Tyria_ well answers to the antient Τυριαῖον which _Xenophon_ mentions as a well inhabited city, not far from Καΰστρου πεδίον. _De expedit. Cyri_, L. i. [38] Lib. v. cap. 29. _Ephesus alluitur Cäystro, in Cilbianis jugis orto, multosque amnes deferente, et stagnum Pegasaeum, quod Phyrites amnis expellit._ [39] This is plain from _Strabo_, who having finished his account of _Ephesus_, and proceeding from thence towards _Smyrna_, says, Εἶτα τὸ Γαλλήσιον ὄρος, καὶ ἡ Κολοφὼν, _etc._ Lib. xiv. pag. 642. [40] This likewise appears from _Strabo_, who tells us, that betwixt _Erythrae_, or the western part of that cape land, and the _isthmus_, which joins the same cape land to the continent, stands the mountain _Mimas_. Μεταξὺ τῶν Ἐρυθρῶν καὶ τοῦ ὑποκρήμνου Μίμας ἐστὶν, ὄρος ὑψηλόν. _Ibid._ _pag._ 645. [41] Chap. vi. ℣. 5. _De Joannis autographo, Ephesi servato, vid. Pfaffii Dissert._ p. 154. [42] Οἱ ἐξ Ἐφέσου εἰς Σάρδις εἰσὶ τεσσεράκοντα καὶ πεντακόσιοι στάδιοι. _Herodot._ Lib. v. cap. 54. [43] The mountains, that enclose the city and plain of _Ephesus_, are _Gallesius_ to the north, _Mycale_ to the south, and _Pactyas_ to the east.