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KAVNOS (Ancient city) TURKEY
Near Caria and Lycia, origin of its people, attacked and subdued by the Medes, participation in Ionian revolt against Darius.
The city has dockyards, and a harbor that can be closed. Above the city, on a height, lies Imbrus, a stronghold .. the city have foul air in summer, as also in autumn, because of the heat and the abundance of fruits. And indeed little tales of the following kind are repeated over and over, that Stratonicus the citharist, seeing that the Caunians were pitiably pale, said that this was the thought of the poet in the verse, ‘Even as is the generation of leaves, such is that also of men’; and when people complained that he was jeering at the city as though it were sickly, he replied, ‘Would I be so bold as to call this city sickly, where even the corpses walk about?; The Caunians once revolted from the Rhodians, but by a judicial decision of the Romans they were restored to them. And there is extant a speech of Molon entitled Against the Caunians. It is said that they speak the same language as the Carians, but that they came from Crete and follow usages of their own.
This extract is from: The Geography of Strabo (ed. H. L. Jones, 1924), Cambridge. Harvard University Press. Cited Feb 2003 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains comments & interesting hyperlinks.
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