MERUS
MERUS (
Μῆρος), a town of Phrygia, which is mentioned only in the ecclesiastical writers as situated in Phrygia Salutaris, on the south-east of Cotyaeum. (Hierocl. p. 677; Socrat.
Hist. Eccles. 3.15; Sozomen, 5.11; Constant. Porphyr.
de Them. 1.4.) Some believe that the ruins near
Dovaslán (commonly called
Doganlu), of which Fellows heard (
Discov. in Lycia, p. 134, &c.), belong to Merus. (Comp. Leake,
Asia Minor, p. 24, &c.) [
L.S]
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