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1500 AD (search for this): book 14, chapter 5
owards the promontory Crommyum,Cape Kormakiti. the passage across being 350 stadia. From the boundaries of Pamphylia to Anemurium, the voyage along the Cilician coast is 820 stadia; the remainder of it as far as SoliMesetlii. is about 500 stadia (1500?). On this coast, after Anemurium, the first city is Nagidus, then Arsinoë,Softa-Kalessi. with a small port; then a place called Melania,Mandane? and CelenderisKilandria, or Gulnar. a city, with a harbour. Some writers,According to Pliny,e Circuit of the Earth. He is still liable to the same charge of ignorance, even if we should suppose the isthmus to be contracted to its least dimensions, and follow writers who erroneously estimate the distance at one-half of the sum, namely 1500 stadia, to which it is reduced by Artemidorus; but even this would not by any means reduce the thus contracted space to the figure of a triangle. Besides, Artemidorus has not correctly described the exterior sides; one side, he says, extends fr
1260 AD (search for this): book 14, chapter 5
ch Strabo has just said belongs to Pamphylia. Ptolemy fixes upon Coracesium as the first place in Cilicia, which, according to Mela, was separated from Pamphylia by Cape Anemurium, which was near Nagidus. among whom is Artemidorus, consider this place as the commencement of Cilicia, and not Coracesium. He says, that from the Pelusiac mouth to Orthosia are 3900 stadia, and to the river OrontesNahr-el-Asy. 1130 stadia; then to the gates of Cilicia 525 stadia, and to the borders of Cilicia 1260 stadia.B. xvi. c. ii. § 33. Next is Holmi,Selefke. formerly inhabited by the present Seleucians; but when Seleucia on the Calycadnus was built, they removed there. On doubling the coast, which forms a promontory called Sarpedon,Cape Lissan. we immediately come to the mouth of the Calycadnus.Gok-su. ZephyriumCape Cavaliere. a promontory is near the Calycadnus. The river may be ascended as far as Seleucia, a city well peopled, and the manners of whose inhabitants are very different from
1130 AD (search for this): book 14, chapter 5
Some writers,According to Pliny, Cilicia anciently commenced at the river Melas, which Strabo has just said belongs to Pamphylia. Ptolemy fixes upon Coracesium as the first place in Cilicia, which, according to Mela, was separated from Pamphylia by Cape Anemurium, which was near Nagidus. among whom is Artemidorus, consider this place as the commencement of Cilicia, and not Coracesium. He says, that from the Pelusiac mouth to Orthosia are 3900 stadia, and to the river OrontesNahr-el-Asy. 1130 stadia; then to the gates of Cilicia 525 stadia, and to the borders of Cilicia 1260 stadia.B. xvi. c. ii. § 33. Next is Holmi,Selefke. formerly inhabited by the present Seleucians; but when Seleucia on the Calycadnus was built, they removed there. On doubling the coast, which forms a promontory called Sarpedon,Cape Lissan. we immediately come to the mouth of the Calycadnus.Gok-su. ZephyriumCape Cavaliere. a promontory is near the Calycadnus. The river may be ascended as far as Seleucia