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Illustrious persons, natives of Miletus, were Thales, one of the seven wise men, the first person who introduced among the Greeks physiology and mathematics; his disciple Anaximander, and Anaximenes the disciple of Anaximander. Besides these, Hecataeus the historian;Coraÿ, who is followed by Groskurd, supposes the words and Cadmus to be here omitted. Kramer considers this correction to be very doubtful; see b. i. c. ii. § 6. and of our time, Aeschines the orator, who was banished for having spoken with two great freedom before Pompey the Great, and died in exile.
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Miletus shut her gates against Alexander, and experienced the misfortune of being taken by storm, which was also the fate of Halicarnassus; long before this time it was captured by the Persians. Callisthenes relates, that Phrynichus the tragic writer was fined a thousand drachmae by the Athenians for composing a play entitled The taking of Miletus by Darius.
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The island Lade lies close in front of Miletus, and small islands about Tragaeae,Chandler says that the Tragaeae were sand-banks or shallows. which afford a shelter for pirates.
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Next follows the Gulf of Latmus, on which is situated Heracleia under Latmus,Bafi. as it is called, a small town with a shelter for vessels. It formerly had the same name as the mountain above, which Hecataeus thinks was the same as that called by the poetIl. ii. 868. the mountain of the Phtheiri, for he says that the mountain of the Phtheiri was situated below Latmus; but some say that it was Grium, as being parallel to Latmus, and extending from the Milesian territory towards the east, through Caria, as far as Euromus and Chalcetores. However, the mountain rises up in sight ofἐν ὕψει, according to Groskurd’s emendation, in place of ἐν ὄψσι. the city.
