[3958] Meaning the “Fountains of the Pipe,” and probably deriving its name from the legend here mentioned by Pliny, and in B. xvi. c. 44. Strabo describes the Marsyas and Mæander as rising, according to report, in one lake above Celænæ, which produced reeds adapted for making the mouth-pieces of musical instruments, but he gives no name to the lake. Hamilton found near Denair or Apamea, a lake nearly two miles in circumference, full of reeds and rushes, which he looks upon as the lake on the mountain Aulocrene, described by Pliny in the 31st Chapter of the present Book. His account however is very confused, as he mentions on different occasions a region of Aulocrene, a valley of Aulocrene, and a mountain of Aulocrene.
[3959] People of “the Mother City,” said by Stephen of Byzantium to have received that name from Cybele, the Mother of the Gods.
[3960] Nothing is known of the site of Dionysopolis. It is mentioned in a letter of Cicero’s to his brother Quintus, in which he speaks of the people of this place as being very hostile to the latter.
[3961] The site of Euphorbium is denoted, according to Leake, by the modern Sandukli. It lay between Synnas and Apamea, and not improbably, like Eucarpia, received its name from the fertility of its territory.
[3962] The site of Acmona has been fixed at Ahatkoi, but it seems doubtful.
[3963] The site of Pelta is by D’Anville called Ris-Chak or Hou-Chak.
[3964] The people of Silbium or Silbia, near Metropolis.
[3965] The Dorian settlements on the coast of Caria were so called. The Dorian Gulf was probably the Sinus Ceramicus mentioned below.
[3966] Of these places nothing whatever seems to be known.
[3967] Pitaium and Eutane seem to be unknown.