[4058] It does not appear that all these mountains have been identified. Cadmus is the Baba Dagh of the Turks.
[4059] Mentioned in C. [29] of the present Book.
[4060] In the time of Strabo this tributary of the Hermus seems to have been known as the Phrygius.
[4061] Its site is now called Menemen, according to D’Anville. The Cryus was so called from the Greek κρύος, “cold.”
[4062] The present Gulf of Smyrna.
[4063] Or the “Ants.”
[4064] Probably so called from the whiteness of the promontory on which it was situate. It was built by Tachos, the Persian general, in B.C. 352, and remarkable as the scene of the battle between the Consul Licinius Crassus and Aristonicus in B.C. 131. The modern name of its site is Lefke.
[4065] Its ruins are to be seen at Karaja-Fokia or Old Fokia, south-west of Fouges or New Fokia. It was said to have been founded by Phocian colonists under Philogenes and Damon.
[4066] The people of Hyrcania, one of the twelve cities which were prostrated by an earthquake in the reign of Tiberius Cæsar; see B. ii. c. [86].
[4067] The people of Magnesia “ad Sipylum,” or the city of Magnesia on the Sipylus. It was situate on the south bank of the Hermus, and is famous in history as the scene of the victory gained by the two Scipios over Antiochus the Great, which secured to the Romans the empire of the East, B.C. 190. This place also suffered from the great earthquake in the reign of Tiberius, but was still a place of importance in the fifth century.