[44] _Ephesus attollitur monte Pione, alluitur Caystro._ Plin. Lib. v. cap. 29. [45] Concerning this church see _Procopii_ Ἀνέκδοτα, _p._ 12. and Ἰουστ. Κτισμ. _pag._ 45, where it is said to have been rebuilt by an order from _Justinian_. [46] See F. Simon’s _Histoire critique de la creance et des coûtumes des nations du Levant_, chap. 7, 8. [47] Plin. _Lib._ xxxvi. _c._ 14. _In solo id palustri fecere._ And _Lib._ v. _c._ 29. _Templum Dianae complexi e diversis regionibus duo Selenuntes_, that is, two _Selenusian_ lakes. [48] Strabo, _Lib._ xiv. _pag._ 639, _et_ 642. Εἶτα Πύγελα πολίχνιον (which now is called _Scala Nova_) εἶτα λιμὴν Πάνορμος καλούμενος, ἔχων ἱερὸν τῆς Ἐφεσίας Ἀρτέμιδος· εἶθ’ ἡ πόλις. And again: Μετὰ δὲ τὴν ἐκβολὴν τοῦ Καΰστρου λίμην ἐστὶν ἐκ τοῦ πελάγους ἀναχεομένη· καλεῖται δὲ Σεληνουσία, καὶ ἐφεξῆς ἄλλη σύῤῥους αὐτῇ. [49] These particulars, as collected out of several authors, are to be seen in _Supplem. in Q. Curt._ _Lib._ ii. _cap._ 7. [50] See these and other particulars in _Plin._ _Lib._ xxxvi. _cap._ 14. [51] This is the face of the moon _aspide cincta comas_. See _Thes. Rom. Ant._ _Vol._ v. _p._ 779. [52] Herodian. _Lib._ I. _cap._ 39. Ἡ δὲ πρεσβυτάτη τῶν Κομμόδου ἀδελφῶν (Φαδίλλα ἦν ὄνομα αὐτῇ) εἰσδραμοῦσα, _etc._ See likewise _Grut._ _pag._ MLXVI, _n._ 13. and _Fabrett._ _Inscriptiones_, _pag._ 746. [53] _Pag._ 255. But the reader may see it more perfect in the few sheets, which were printed, of the second part of _Antiq. Asiat._ [54] See pag. 254. [55] Ἐξ Ἐφέσου μέχρι Σμύρνης ὁδός ἐστιν ἐπ’ εὐθείας τριακόσιοι εἴκοσι στάδιοι· εἰς γὰρ Μητρόπολιν ἑκατὸν καὶ εἴκοσι στάδιοι, οἱ λοιποὶ δὲ εἰς Σμύρναν. Strab. Lib. xiv. p. 632. [56] Lib. v. cap. 29. _Ephesus alluitur Câystro multos amnes deferente, et stagnum Pegasaeum, quod Phyrites amnis expellit._ [57] _Mitylene_, made more remarkable for those words of the _Lesbians_ to _Pompey_, then fled hither: _Fac, Magne, locum, quem cuncta revisant_ _Saecula, quem veniens hospes Romanus adoret._ Lucan. Lib. viii. ℣. 114. [58] See _Strab._ _Lib._ xiii. _pag._ 615. [59] Hence _Virgil_, _Culic._ ℣. 312. _Omnis ut in cineres Rhoetei litoris ora,_ _Classibus ambustis, flamma superante, daretur._ See likewise _Xenoph._ _Hist. Graec. L._ i. _in prin._ ὡς ἤνοιγε περὶ τὸ Ῥοίτειον. And _P. Mel._ L. i. c. 18. _Extra sinum sunt Rhoetea littora._ [60] Lib. viii. p. 599. Οὐδὲν ἴχνος σώζεται τῆς ἀρχαίας πόλεως. And in like manner, _Lucan_, _Lib._ ix. ℣. 968. _Tota teguntur_ _Pergama dumetis, et jam periere ruinae._ [61] _Polybius_ makes the breadth of the _Hellespont_ here to be no more than two furlongs, _Lib._ xvi. _p._ 735. [62] In some modern prints _Aidos_. The most memorable siege of this place by king _Philip_ of _Macedon_ is related by _Livy_, _Lib._ xxxi. _cap._ 17.