[4158] A nation belonging probably more to mythology than history. Strabo supposes them to have been of Thracian origin, and that their first place of settlement was Mysia.
[4159] By some supposed to have been a people of Phrygia.
[4160] Mentioned in C. [29] of the present Book.
[4161] From the Greek δαμάω, “to subdue.” Hardouin thinks that this appellation is intended to be given by Pliny to Asia in general, and not to the city of Apamea in particular, as imagined by Ortelius and others.
[4162] It is so described by Homer.
[4163] This was the light-house built upon it by Ptolemy II. Philadelphus, whence the name of pharus came to be applied to similar structures. It was here also that, according to the common story, the seventy Translators of the Greek version of the Old Testament, hence called the Septuagint, were confined while completing their work.
[4164] The narrow or fortified channel.
[4165] The Neptunian channel.