“below snowy Tmolus, in the rich district of Hyda.”
But no Hyda[1539] is to be found among the Lydians. Others make this the birth-place of Tychius, mentioned by the poet,
“he was the best leather-cutter in Hyda.”[1540]
They add that the place is woody, and frequently struck with lightning, and that here also were the dwellings of the Arimi; for to this verse,
“Among the Arimi, where they say is the bed of Typhoëus,”[1541]
they add the following,
“in a woody country, in the rich district of Hyda.”
Some lay the scene of the last fable in Cilicia, others in Syria, others among the Pithecussæ (islands),[1542] who say that the Pitheci (or monkeys) are called by the Tyrrhenians Arimi. Some call Sardes Hyda; others give this name to its Acropolis.
The Scepsian (Demetrius) says that the opinion of those authors is most to be depended upon who place the Arimi in the Catacecaumene in Mysia. But Pindar associates the Pithecussæ which lie in front of the Cymæan territory and Sicily with Cilicia, for the poet says that Typhon lay beneath Ætna;