[1200] Pliny, xxxiv. c. 18.
[1201] Great-grandson of Deïotarus I.
[1202] According to Alexander Polyhistor, the town was built by a goatherd, who had found one of his goats straying there, but this is probably a mere philological speculation, gangra signifying “a goat” in the Paphlagonian language. In ecclesiastical writers it is often mentioned as the metropolitan see of Paphlagonia. The orchards of this town were celebrated for their apples. Athen. iii—Smith.
[1203] Book iv. c. i. § 6. Athen. b. viii.
[1204] Isnik Gol.
[1205] Sakaria.
[1206] B. vii. c. vi. § 2.
[1207] G. of Ismid.
[1208] Ismid or Iskimid.
[1209] B. of Gemlik.