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times, that, in spite of the non-existence of vestiges of
antiquity at the spot, we turn to the Greek writers with
a confident expectation of finding indications of some
city as having existed hereabouts.
Hierocles9 mentions Inatos between Bienna and Gor-
tyna. The Peutinger table places Lisia, by which
Leben seems to be indicated, sixteen miles from Gor-
tyna, and Inata twenty-four miles to the east of Lisia,
and thirty-two miles to the west of Hierapytna. The
table also puts Inata on a river. These distances agree
well with the situation of Castle Belvedere. Inatos is
also mentioned by Ptolemy10, and is doubtless11 the
Einatos of Hesychius, the Etymologist, and Stephanus
of Byzantium12. The goddess Eileithyia is said to have
been worshipped at this place, and to have obtained
one of her epithets from it':i.
It may, perhaps, if not the site of Inatos, be that
of Priansos. At all events, both Inatos and Priansos
must have been in this neighbourhood: if Inatos was
here, Priansos was, in all likelihood, nearer the mouth
of the Siidsuro. Priansos is well known by its coins,
and by the treaty between its citizens and the Hiera-
pytnians among the Oxford marbles14. The various
maritime symbols exhibited on the Priansian coins, would
lead us to place it near the shore : the palm-tree, which
some of them exhibit, calls to our recollection the coins
3 Hierocles, Synecdem. p. 649.
10 Ptolemy, hi. 17. p. 91.
11 Wesseling, on Hierocles, p. 64,'). and Hoeck's Kreta, Vol. i.
p. 412.
12 See Hesychius and the Etymologicon, in EiVaro9. Stephanus
of Byzantium says, HlvaTos, toXis Kjch/'tijs, <us Seviwv <pi]cri, to edvi-
kov Hiva.Tio<s. Tivks <5e opo's Kal iroTajxou kv w tl/xarrdai ti)v TLiXe'iQviav
13 WivaTLa, by which alone she is designated in Callimachus, Fr. 168.
(Tom. i. p. 379. Graev. or p. 505. Ernest.)
14 Given in Boeckh, Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, n. 2556. (Vol. 11.
p. 411.) The two coins of Priansos, engraved at the head of the next chapter,
are at Bologna; the smaller one in the Gabinetto Numismatico of the
University, the larger in the possession of the Marquis Angelelli.
INATOS AND PRIANSOS.
289
times, that, in spite of the non-existence of vestiges of
antiquity at the spot, we turn to the Greek writers with
a confident expectation of finding indications of some
city as having existed hereabouts.
Hierocles9 mentions Inatos between Bienna and Gor-
tyna. The Peutinger table places Lisia, by which
Leben seems to be indicated, sixteen miles from Gor-
tyna, and Inata twenty-four miles to the east of Lisia,
and thirty-two miles to the west of Hierapytna. The
table also puts Inata on a river. These distances agree
well with the situation of Castle Belvedere. Inatos is
also mentioned by Ptolemy10, and is doubtless11 the
Einatos of Hesychius, the Etymologist, and Stephanus
of Byzantium12. The goddess Eileithyia is said to have
been worshipped at this place, and to have obtained
one of her epithets from it':i.
It may, perhaps, if not the site of Inatos, be that
of Priansos. At all events, both Inatos and Priansos
must have been in this neighbourhood: if Inatos was
here, Priansos was, in all likelihood, nearer the mouth
of the Siidsuro. Priansos is well known by its coins,
and by the treaty between its citizens and the Hiera-
pytnians among the Oxford marbles14. The various
maritime symbols exhibited on the Priansian coins, would
lead us to place it near the shore : the palm-tree, which
some of them exhibit, calls to our recollection the coins
3 Hierocles, Synecdem. p. 649.
10 Ptolemy, hi. 17. p. 91.
11 Wesseling, on Hierocles, p. 64,'). and Hoeck's Kreta, Vol. i.
p. 412.
12 See Hesychius and the Etymologicon, in EiVaro9. Stephanus
of Byzantium says, HlvaTos, toXis Kjch/'tijs, <us Seviwv <pi]cri, to edvi-
kov Hiva.Tio<s. Tivks <5e opo's Kal iroTajxou kv w tl/xarrdai ti)v TLiXe'iQviav
13 WivaTLa, by which alone she is designated in Callimachus, Fr. 168.
(Tom. i. p. 379. Graev. or p. 505. Ernest.)
14 Given in Boeckh, Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum, n. 2556. (Vol. 11.
p. 411.) The two coins of Priansos, engraved at the head of the next chapter,
are at Bologna; the smaller one in the Gabinetto Numismatico of the
University, the larger in the possession of the Marquis Angelelli.