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The theatres had raised the reputation of Anaxenor, the player on the cithara, but Antony elevated him as high as possible, by appointing him receiver of the tribute from four cities, and by giving him a guard of soldiers for the protection of his person. His native country also augmented his dignity, by investing him with the sacred purple of Jupiter Sosipolis, as is represented in the painted figure in the forum. There is also in the theatre a figure in brass, with this inscription: It is truly delightful to listen to a minstrel such as he is, whose voice is like that of the gods.Od. ix. 3. The artist who engraved the words was inattentive to the space which they would occupy, and omitted the last letter of the second verse, αυδηι, (voice,) the breadth of the base not being large enough to allow its insertion; this afforded an occasion of accusing the citizens of ignorance, on account of the ambiguity of the inscription; for it is not clear whether the nominative αυδη, or the dative αυδηι, is to be understood, for many persons write the dative cases without the ι, and reject the usage, as not founded on any natural reason.
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After Magnesia is the road to Tralles;Aidin-Gusel-Hissar. travellers have on the left hand Mesogis,The chain of mountains between the Caÿster and the Maeander, the different eminences of which bear the names of Samsun-dagh, Gumusch-dagh, Dsehuma-dagh, etc. and on the right hand, and from the road itself, the plain of the Maeander, which is occupied in common by Lydians, Carians, Ionians, Milesians, Mysians, and the Aeolians of Magnesia.
1.42
The character of the sites of places is the same even as far as NysaSultan-Hissar. and Antioch.
