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APAMIA (Ancient city) TURKEY
Aulocrenae, a valley ten Roman miles from Apamia (Cibotus) for those
who are going to Phrygia. (Plin. v. 29.) The Marsyas, says Pliny, rises and is
soon hidden in the place where Marsyas contended with Apollo on the pipe in Aulocrenae;
whence, perhaps, the place derives its name from the legend of Apollo and Marsyas,
as it means the fountains of the pipe. Strabo describes the Marsyas and Maeander
as rising, according to report, in one lake above Celaenae, which produces reeds
adapted for making mouth-pieces for pipes; he gives no name to the lake. Pliny
(xvi. 44) says, We have mentioned the tract (regio) Aulocrene, through which a
man passes from Apamia into Phrygia; there a plane tree is shown from which Marsyas
was suspended, after being vanquished by Apollo. But Pliny has not mentioned the
regio Aulocrene before; and the passage to which he refers (v. 29), and which
is here literally rendered, is not quite clear. But he has mentioned, in another
passage (v. 29), a lake on a mountain Aulocrene, in which the Maeander rises.
Hamilton (Researches, &c. vol. i. p. 498) found near Denair (Apameia Cibotus),
a lake nearly two miles in circumference, full of reeds and rushes, which he considers
to be the source of the Maeander, and also to be the lake described by Pliny on
the Mons Aulocrene. But the Aulocrenae he considers to be in the plain of Dombai.
Thus Pliny mentions a regio Aulocrene, a mons Aulocrene, and a valley (convallis)
Aulocrenae.
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
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