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Xerxes said this and made good his words, then journeyed ever onward. Passing by the Phrygian town called Anaua, and the lake from which salt is obtained, he came to Colossae, a great city in Phrygia; there the river Lycus plunges into a cleft in the earth and disappears,1 until it reappears about five stadia away; this river issues into the Maeander.

1 The Lycus here flows in a narrow gorge, but there is no indication of its ever having flowed underground, except for a few yards.

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