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After Hierapolis are the parts beyond the Mæander. Those about Laodiceia and Aphrodisias,1558 and those extending to Carura, have been already described. The places which succeed are Antiocheia1559 on the Mæander, now belonging to Caria, on the west; on the south are Cibyra the Great,1560 Sinda,1561 and Cabalis, as far as Mount Taurus and Lycia.

Antiocheia is a city of moderate size situated on the banks of the Mæander, at the side towards Phrygia. There is a bridge over the river. A large tract of country, all of which is fertile, on each side of the river, belongs to the city. It produces in the greatest abundance the fig of Antioch, as it is called, which is dried. It is also called Triphyllus. This place also is subject to shocks of earthquakes.

A native of this city was Diotrephes, a celebrated sophist; his disciple was Hybreas, the greatest orator of our times.

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The Cabaleis, it is said, were Solymi. The hill situated above the Termessian fortress is called Solymus, and the Termessians themselves Solymi. Near these places is the rampart of Bellerophon and the sepulchre of Peisandrus his son, who fell in the battle against the Solymi. This account agrees with the words of the poet. Of Bellerophon he speaks thus,

“he fought a second time with the brave Solymi;”1562

and of his son,

“Mars, unsated with war, killed Peisandrus his son fighting with the Solymi.”1563

Termessus is a Pisidian city situated very near and immediately above Cibyra.