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ERAE (Ancient city) TURKEY
Erae (Erai), a place on the coast of Ionia, mentioned by Thucydides
(viii. 19), in the vicinity of Lebedus and Teos. It was fortified strong enough
to keep out the Athenians, who attacked it. (Thuc. viii. 20.) Strabo mentions
Erae as a small town belonging to Teos; but though the reading Erai has been received
into some texts of Strabo, some of the MSS. are said to have Gerai, and Casaubon
has kept that reading in his text. (See Groskurd, Transl. Strab. vol. iii. p.
23, note.) There seems some confusion about the name Gerae, Gerraidae (Strabo),
and the harbour Geraesticus (Liv. xxxvii. 27), on which Groskurd's note may be
consulted. Palmerius conjectured that the name Erae, which he takes to be the
true name of the place, is corrupted into Agra in Scylax. Chandler (Asia Minor,
c. 26) supposed the modern site of Gerae to be Segigeck (as he writes it), 8 hours
from Smyrna. There is a view of the place in the Ionian Antiquities. Chandler
describes some remains of antiquity there. Some of the inscriptions found at this
place were published by Chishull and some by Chandler. Segigeck is at tile head
of a fine bay. There is a good note on Gerae in the French edition of Chandler's
Travels (vol. i. p. 420).
Hamilton (Researches, &c. vol. ii. p. 11) describes Sighajik as a
snug harbour, and he seems to conclude correctly that it is Livy's Geraesticus,
which Livy describes as the port of Teos qui ab tergo urbis est, and thus distinguishes
it from the harbour, qui ante urbem est. (Liv. xxxvii. 29.) The consideration
of the inscriptions found at Sighajik belongs to the article Teos. If we suppose
Gerae to be the true reading in Strabo, we may identify Gerae and Geraesticus;
but there is a difficulty about Erae in Thucydides, for his text does not enable
us to determine exactly where it is, though it seems to have been not far from
Teos. Proper names are not always right in the text of Thucydides, and this is
probably one example.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
(Erai). A small but strong seaport town on the coast of Ionia north of Teos.
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