T he traft between mount Tmolus and Mefiogis is a portion
of the region named Afis; and, being meadowy, was much
frequented by geefe, cranes, and fwans. There, it has been
faid, you might liften to them, fitting on Tmolus in the fpring
feafon, or fee them feeding in the grafs j arriving in vaft companies,
and fettling, or flying away, and making the Cayfter and
the Afian marlh refound with their noify clamour. The Allan
marlh is now perhaps dry ground.
A t the foot o f Tmolus, defcending toward the Cayllrian
plain, was the fmall town, Hypaepa, where the Perfians of
Lydia had a temple ferved by Magi. An author, who lived in
the fecond century, relates, that he faw there an altar in a cell»
with alhes on it, differing in colour from common afhes; that
the Magus or prieft entered the cell, and heaped dry wood on
the altar j that he then put the tiara or facred fillet round his
head, and invoked the deity, chanting from a book in a barbarous
language unintelligible to the Greeks, when the fewel
lighted fpontaneoufly, and a clear flame was produced; The
fame wonder was performed at Hierocsefarea1 in Lydia, at the
temple dedicated by king Cyrus to the Perfian Diana.
H y p j e p a is now a'town called Birghe, and has two-very
handfome mofques. It is probable a fortrefs with towers (nvpyoi)
was ere&ed there to command the pafs of mount Tmolus, and
occafioned the difufe of the old name for that of Pyrge, of which
Birghe is a corruption. Pyrge was one of the places, which
fuflfered from the exactions of the Grand Duke Roger, general
of the Roman armies in 1306 ; and thither the body of Amir»
on his fudden death, was removed by Cineis from Ephefus or
, On a. medal of this place the goddefs is reprefented, with a quiver, the
Legend II h i1 c 1K H or The Perjian',. and on the reverfe is an altar, with a fire on it.
A very forced explication of this plain Legend is given in the notes on Pliny.
1. v. c. 31. , .
Aiafaluck, to be buried in the fepulchre of his anceftors,
in 1403.
W e lhall add here the rout to Sardes from the plain o f the
Caicus and the city Pergamum’, which is thus defcribed: “ On
“ the eaft is the city Apollonia, feated on an eminence j and
*-* on the fouth a ridge o f mountains. Pafling over this, and
“ going toward Sardes, Thyatira is on th e ' le ft; and on the
“ right, Apollonis, diftant three hundred iladia, thirty feven
“ miles and a half, both from Pergamum and from Sardes'.
« Then follows the plain of the river Hermus and this city.”
, In Peutinger’s T able. In the Antonins Itinerary.
Pergamum - - - - - — Pergamum - - - -
CJ&I UUto - — — Ole p. a s Genua - . « - m. p.
Thyatira - - 33 Thyatira - « - - 33
Sardes - - - - - - 36 Sardes - - « 33
Philadelphia - - - - - 30 Philadelphia » - - 28
Tripolis - - - - - - 34 Tripolis 33
Hierapolis - - - - - 12 Hierapolis * - - « - 12
From Thyatira to Smyrna - 36
From Sardes to Hypsepa 20
JPergamum has been reckoned fixty miles north of Smyrna,