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Falkener, Edward
Ephesus and the temple of Diana — London, 1862

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24 ANCIENT EPHESUS.

remember the fat bullocks they used to offer
thee."1 The laying claim to derivation from
Amazons, river-gods, and demi-gods, or heroes,
can only prove the great antiquity of the place,
and therefore it is most probable that the appel-
lation of Smyrna was derived as above suggested,
especially as this is countenanced by another
name of Ephesus given us by Pliny,—Morges,
which is probably a corruption of 'A[xopyrh a
purple flower used in dyeing; and it is remark-
able that purple is especially mentioned by an
ancient but anonymous geographer as one of the
particular products of Asia.3 Another corrobora-
tion of the city having taken its name from a
herb or flower, occurs in the two streamlets
of Ephesus, called Selinus, signifying parsley.
Samorna appears from Salmasius to have been
the same as Panormus, but Guhl3 takes it for a
corruption of Smyrna. Lastly, Ptelea is evidently
derived from the trunk of an elm-tree, on which,
out of which, or under which, the Amazons placed
or formed the statue of Diana.4 The only other
name by which the city was called was that of
Arsinoe, the wife of Lysimachus, but the name
appears to have lasted only during his lifetime.6

1 Stephanus uses Traclieia as a general term for the whole city.

2 Geog. Vet. Script. Grate. Min. Oxon, 1712, vol. iii. p. 11. The
Biblical student will not fail to remember Lydia of Thyatira.

3 Ephesiaca, p. 31 ; Choiseul Goufiier, i. 323.

4 Callimachus, Hymn V. ; Dionysius Periegetes, v. 825 •
Scaliger. 5 Steph. Byz. voce"Efzeros ; Strabo. p. 640.
 
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