Book 14
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Thirty stadia from Nysa, as you cross the Mesogis to-words the southern parts of Mount Tmolus,Groskurd’s emendation of this corrupt passage is adopted, ὑπεοͅβᾶσιτὴν μεσωγίδα ἐπὶ τὰ ποͅὸς τὸν νότον μέοͅη τμώλου τοῦ ὄρους. is a place called Leimon, or the Meadow, to which the Nysaeans and all the people around repair when they celebrate a festival. Not far from this plain is an aperture in the ground, sacred to the same deities, which aperture is said to extend as far as Acharaca. They say that the poet mentions this meadow, in the words, On the Asian mead,Il. ii. 461. and they show a temple dedicated to two heroes, Caÿstrius and Asius, and the Caÿster flowing near it.
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Historians relate that three brothers, Athymbrus, Athymbradus, and Hydrelus, coming hither from Lacedaemon, founded (three?) cities, to which they gave their own names; that the population of these towns afterwards declined, but that out of these jointly Nysa was peopled. The Nysaeans at present regard Athymbrus as their founder.
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Beyond the Maeander and in the neighbourhood are considerable settlements, CosciniaArpas-Kalessi. and Orthosia, and on this side the river, Briula, Mastaura,Mastauro. Acharaca, and above the city on the mountain, Aroma; the letter o is shortened in the pronunciation. From this latter place is obtained the Aromeus, the best Mesogitian wine.
