A Geographical And Historical Description of Asia Minor
A Geographical And Historical Description of Asia Minor
Cramer, J. A. (John Anthony), 1793-1848
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Hist. c. 36.) Galen speaks also of some mines near the same city. (Simpl. Rem. IX. p. 125.) Strabo places above Soli, and at some distance from the Ldmenia. coast, a Small town named Limenia ; it appears from some ecclesiastical documents, cited by Wesseling in a note to Hierocles, to have been four miles from Soli. Continuing along the northern part of the island Aninoe. towards the west, we find a town named Arsinoe, but differing apparently from the one situate not far from Paphos. Strabo, w...ho mentions both, speaks Lucu« of a grove sacred to Jupiter in the vicinity of the former. (XIV. p. 683.) A little beyond we come to cape Acamas, the point from whence our periplus commenced. There are few places of note to be considered in the interior of Cyprus. The chief of these was Ta- masus, celebrated for its rich mines of copper, and the metallic composition prepared on the spot called calcanthum. (Strab. XIV. p. 683.) These mines ap- pear to have been known as early as the days of Homer, for he refers to them in the Odyssey : W\im wk\ ohoiroi ifovtov W aWo&poovs avipwrovgy Od.
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