Book 14
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There is also a library, and the Homereium, a quadrangular portico, which has a temple of Homer and a statue. For the Smyrnaeans, above all others, urge the claims of their city to be the birth-place of Homer, and they have a sort of brass money, called Homereium.Still to be found in collections of coins.
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The river Meles flows near the walls. Besides other conveniences with which the city is furnished, there is a close harbour.
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There is one, and not a trifling, defect in the work of the architects, that when they paved the roads, they did not make drains beneath them; the filth consequently lies on the surface, and, during rains particularly, the receptacles of the filth spread it over the streets.
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It was here that Dolabella besieged and slew Trebonius, one of the murderers of divus Caesar; he also destroyed many parts of the city.
