Book 14
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After Leucae follows Phocaea,Karadscha-Fokia. situated on a bay. I have mentioned this place in the description of Massalia.Marseilles, b. iv. ch. i. §4. Then follow the confines of the Ionians and the Aeolians. I have already spoken of these.B. xiii. ch. i. 2.
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In the interior of the Ionian maritime territory there remain to be described the places about the road leading from Ephesus, as far as AntiochJenidscheh. and the Maeander.
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This tract is occupied by a mixed population of Lydians, Carians, and Greeks.
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The first place after Ephesus is Magnesia, an Aeolian city, and called Magnesia on the Maeander, for it is situated near it; but it is still nearer the Lethaeus, which discharges itself into the Maeander. It has its source in Pactyes, a mountain in the Ephesian district. There is another Lethaeus in Gortyne, a third near Tricca, where Asclepius is said to have been born, and the fourth among the Hesperitae Libyans.Western Africa.
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Magnesia lies in a plain, near a mountain called Thorax,Gumusch-dagh. on which it is said Daphitas the grammarian was crucified, for reviling the kings in a distich— O slaves, with backs purpled with stripes, filings of the gold of Lysimachus, you are the kings of Lydia and Phrygia.
