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126 IV. MOSSYNA, MOTELLA, DIONYSOPOLIS, ETC.
same footing as Mossyna and Thiounta. There is no evidence to
determine.
§ 4. Dionysopolis is said to have been founded by Eumenes and
Attalos, who found an archaic statue (£6avov) of Dionysos in the
district. The reference doubtless is to the brother-kings of Pergamos,
Eumenes II (197-1,59) and Attalos II Philadelphos 159-138 (who
founded Eumeneia, Philadelphia, and Attaleia in Pamphylia). In
this foundation-legend the reference to the native god as directing and
sanctioning the foundation is an interesting point (so at Laodiceia
Ch. II § 1): legitimation in the view of the older natives was thus
gained for the new state 1. Dionysos Kathegemon was a great deity
at Pergamos; and the chief god of the new colony was Dionysos, as
we see from its coins and especially a magnificent one which shows
the god sitting in a chair, pouring out wine from a kantharos before
a panther, while'a satyr dances in the field, with the legend XAPHC •
B • l£P€YC • AIONYCOY (Rev. Num. 189a p. 123). That Kybele also
should appear on coins, sitting between two lions, is natural in this
district. The native god also appears with the enigmatic legend
zeYC-noTHoc2.
As to the municipal government, coins mention the Senate, Demos,
and Strategos; but the inscriptions give no information on the
subject. Addend. 39.
§ 5. The Hykgalean Plain. By a happy restoration of the MS.
reading in place of a bad but generally accepted correction in the text
of Pliny V 113, M. Waddington introduced the term Hyrgaletici Campi
into the topography of Asia Minor3. Pliny, tracing the course of the
Maeander, says that, rising in the lake of Aulocrene, it traverses first
the country of Apameia, then that of Eumeneia, thereafter the Hyrgalean
plains, and finally Caria, entering the sea ten stadia from Miletos.
1 The territory that belonged to the of Poteos as a rude attempt at the
god was taken for the colony, and his Greek Uvrios (for Uidtos see Sohulze on
consent had to be gained (of course Posphoros in Zfl. f. vgl. Sprachf. 1894
through some arrangement with the p. 386 f). The title must remain a
priest). His consent took the form of riddle for the present.
an oracle or vision ordering the founda- 3 The unjustified and unjustifiable
tion of the new city. See Ch. I § 6, II 'correction' Bargyleticos had been gene-
§ 1, III § 9, &c. rally adopted by the editors. Bar-
2 Zeus Poteus or Potes on lake Askania gylia is not near the Maeander; but
(no. 178) bears apparently the same the editors merely inferred from that
title. Can it be a Thracian title intro- fact that Pliny was careless and un-
duced into both districts by mercenaries trustworthy. The passage is quoted
settled there by the Pergamenian kings Ch. VII § i.
(no. 168) ? I have sometimes also thought
same footing as Mossyna and Thiounta. There is no evidence to
determine.
§ 4. Dionysopolis is said to have been founded by Eumenes and
Attalos, who found an archaic statue (£6avov) of Dionysos in the
district. The reference doubtless is to the brother-kings of Pergamos,
Eumenes II (197-1,59) and Attalos II Philadelphos 159-138 (who
founded Eumeneia, Philadelphia, and Attaleia in Pamphylia). In
this foundation-legend the reference to the native god as directing and
sanctioning the foundation is an interesting point (so at Laodiceia
Ch. II § 1): legitimation in the view of the older natives was thus
gained for the new state 1. Dionysos Kathegemon was a great deity
at Pergamos; and the chief god of the new colony was Dionysos, as
we see from its coins and especially a magnificent one which shows
the god sitting in a chair, pouring out wine from a kantharos before
a panther, while'a satyr dances in the field, with the legend XAPHC •
B • l£P€YC • AIONYCOY (Rev. Num. 189a p. 123). That Kybele also
should appear on coins, sitting between two lions, is natural in this
district. The native god also appears with the enigmatic legend
zeYC-noTHoc2.
As to the municipal government, coins mention the Senate, Demos,
and Strategos; but the inscriptions give no information on the
subject. Addend. 39.
§ 5. The Hykgalean Plain. By a happy restoration of the MS.
reading in place of a bad but generally accepted correction in the text
of Pliny V 113, M. Waddington introduced the term Hyrgaletici Campi
into the topography of Asia Minor3. Pliny, tracing the course of the
Maeander, says that, rising in the lake of Aulocrene, it traverses first
the country of Apameia, then that of Eumeneia, thereafter the Hyrgalean
plains, and finally Caria, entering the sea ten stadia from Miletos.
1 The territory that belonged to the of Poteos as a rude attempt at the
god was taken for the colony, and his Greek Uvrios (for Uidtos see Sohulze on
consent had to be gained (of course Posphoros in Zfl. f. vgl. Sprachf. 1894
through some arrangement with the p. 386 f). The title must remain a
priest). His consent took the form of riddle for the present.
an oracle or vision ordering the founda- 3 The unjustified and unjustifiable
tion of the new city. See Ch. I § 6, II 'correction' Bargyleticos had been gene-
§ 1, III § 9, &c. rally adopted by the editors. Bar-
2 Zeus Poteus or Potes on lake Askania gylia is not near the Maeander; but
(no. 178) bears apparently the same the editors merely inferred from that
title. Can it be a Thracian title intro- fact that Pliny was careless and un-
duced into both districts by mercenaries trustworthy. The passage is quoted
settled there by the Pergamenian kings Ch. VII § i.
(no. 168) ? I have sometimes also thought