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Smyrna (Turkey) (search for this): book 7, chapter 5
Smyrna, one of the twelve Aeolian cities, built on that site which even now they call the old city, was seized by Ionians who set out from Colophon and displaced the Aeolians; subsequently, however, the Ionians allowed the Smyrnaeans to take their place in the general assembly at Panionium. The modern city was founded by Alexander, the son of Philip, in accordance with a vision in a dream.
It is said that Alexander was hunting on Mount Pagus, and that after the hunt was over he came to a sanctuary of the Nemeses, and found there a spring and a plane-tree in front of the sanctuary, growing over the water. While he slept under the plane-tree it is said that the Nemeses appeared and bade him found a city there and to remove into it the Smyrnaeans from the old city.
So the Smyrnaeans sent ambassadors to Clarus to make inquiries about the circumstance, and the god made answer:—Thrice, yes, four times blest will those men beWho shall dwell in Pagus beyond the sacred Meles.So they migrated of
Teos (search for this): book 7, chapter 5
Greece (Greece) (search for this): book 7, chapter 5
Lebedus (search for this): book 7, chapter 5
Priene (Turkey) (search for this): book 7, chapter 5
Branchidae (Turkey) (search for this): book 7, chapter 5
Phocaea (Turkey) (search for this): book 7, chapter 5
Miletus (Turkey) (search for this): book 7, chapter 5
Ionia (search for this): book 7, chapter 5
Tyre (Lebanon) (search for this): book 7, chapter 5