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Stories of the following kind are related respecting the city. Stratonicus, the player on the cithara, seeing the Caunians somewhat dark and yellow,Kramer suggests the words ὑπομέλανας καὶ, for the corrupt reading, ἐπιμελῶς. said that this was what the poet meant in the line, As are the leaves, so is the race of men.Il. vi. 146. When he was accused of ridiculing the unhealthiness of the city, he answered, Can I be so bold as to call that city unhealthy, where even the dead walk about?
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The Caunians once revolted from the Rhodians, but, by a decision of the Romans, they were received again by the Rhodians into favour. There is in existence an oration of Molo against the Caunians.
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It is said that they speak the same language as the Carians, that they came from Crete, and retained their own laws and customs.The Caunians were aborigines of Caria, although they affected to come from Crete.—Herod. i. 72.
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Next is Physcus,Castro Marmora. The gulf on which it stands is still called Porto Fisko. a small town; it has a port and a grove sacred to Latona: then Loryma, a rugged line of seacoast, and a mountain, the highest of any in that quarter, on the summit of which is Phoenix, a stronghold, of the same name as the mountain. In front is the island Eleussa, at the distance of 4 stadia. Its circumference is about 8 stadia.
