Kitap 14
2.21
As a player on the cithara was displaying his art in public, every one listened to him attentively till the market bell rung for the sale of fish, when he was deserted by all except one man, who was quite deaf. The minstrel coming up to him said, Friend, I am much obliged to you for the honour you have done me, and I admire your love of music, for all the others have left me at the sound of the bell.—What say you, has the bell rung?—Yes, he replied?—Good bye to you, said the man, and away he also went.
2.21
Diodorus the Dialectician was a native of this place. He was surnamed Cronus (or Old Time); the title was not properly his from the first; it was his master Apollonius who (in the first instance) had received the surname of Cronus, but it was transferred to Diodorus on account of the want of celebrity in the true Cronus.
2.22
Next to Iasus is Cape PoseidiumCape Arbore. of the Milesians. In the interior are three considerable cities, Mylasa,Mylassa, or Marmora. Stratoniceia,Eski-hissar. and Alabanda.Arab-hissar The others are guard forts to these or to the maritime towns, as Amyzon, Heracleia, Euromus, Chalcetor. But we make little account of these.
