PODALAEA
PODALAEA (
Ποδαλαία,
Ποδαλλία,
Ποδαλία, or
Ποδάλεια: Eth.
Ποδαλεώτης), a town of Lycia, situated in the neighbourhood of Limyra (
Steph. B. sub voce but according to Ptolemy (
5.3.7) not far from the sources of the Xanthus in the north of Lycia. (Comp.
Plin. Nat. 5.28; Hierocl. p. 683.) Sir C. Fellows (
Lycia, p. 232, &c.) looks for its site further east towards Mount Solyma, where remains of an ancient town (Cyclopian walls and rock-tombs) near
Almalec, are still found, and are known by the name of
Eski Hissar, i. e. old town.
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