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170 V. PHRYGIAN CITIES OF THE LOWER MAEANDER.
I 35 f); and it was a very common name in this part of Caria under
the Roman Empire. Aclrasteia is known as a nymph on Mount Ida,
and a name of Cybele at Cyzicos 1 ; in Greece the name was' interpreted
as an epithet of Nemesis, the Inevitable, but probably the Asian name
was a different and non-Greek word, modified in Greek to give a suit-
able meaning.
§ 7. Kabouea, according to the Peutinger Table, was 20 miles 2
from Laodiceia on the great Highway. The words of Strabo p. 579
show that it was on the south side of the river, which agrees with the
evidence from other sources placing the great Roman bridge over the
Maeander near Antioch. If we measure along the natural line of
the road, which would take the shortest line, avoiding the heavy soil
of the central valley and keeping near the fringe of the southern hills,
we find that Karoura must have been at the western end of a series of
remarkable hot springs, in the vicinity of the village of Tekke, which
is marked by its name3 as bearer of the religious awe attaching to the
remarkable natural surroundings and to the ancient life of Karoura 4.
The precise site is determined by Strabo's statement that at
Karoura there were hot springs in the channel of the Maeander.
This phenomenon occurs about a mile N.E. from Tekke-Keui5, see
Ch. I § 1.
There is a temptation to identify Karoura with the village or town
that grew up round the temple of Men Karou ; but this is inconsistent
both with the distance given on the Peutinger Table, and with the
words of Strabo, who says that the temple was situated between
Karoura and Laodiceia6. He evidently shared the common Greek
idea that the name arose from the village being the Karian frontier
1 Seo Preller-Plew Griech. Mytliol. I Awe to Special Sites in Transactions of
106, 440: Preller-Robert I p. 134. the Oriental Congress 1892.
2 Measuring as carefully as I can, 6 The spot is marked on the railway
I find just 19 Roman miles along the survey given me by Mr. Purser. I have
direct road from the middle of Laodi- not visited it: when we rode from
ceia to the centre of Karoura; but it Serai-Keui to Ortakcke along the south
must be remembered that in the Table side of the valley in April 1884 the
half-miles at either end would naturally ground towards the river was too soft
be reckoned as complete miles. So the and marshy, and we had to keep up
distance from Apameia to Laodiceia can near the southern hills.
hardly be more than 70 M.P.; but it is " ptTu^vrris AaubinuasKal ravKapovpav
LXXI in the Table. iepbv tan Mtjdus Kdpov K.a\ovp.evov ti/xco-
3 Tekke, a religious building, seat of pevov d^ioXdyas p. 580. He says that
a set of dervishes. Karoura was the frontier of Caria, and
4 On this subject see my paper on it is only eight miles from the Kapros,
TJie Permanent Attachment of Religious the frontier river.
I 35 f); and it was a very common name in this part of Caria under
the Roman Empire. Aclrasteia is known as a nymph on Mount Ida,
and a name of Cybele at Cyzicos 1 ; in Greece the name was' interpreted
as an epithet of Nemesis, the Inevitable, but probably the Asian name
was a different and non-Greek word, modified in Greek to give a suit-
able meaning.
§ 7. Kabouea, according to the Peutinger Table, was 20 miles 2
from Laodiceia on the great Highway. The words of Strabo p. 579
show that it was on the south side of the river, which agrees with the
evidence from other sources placing the great Roman bridge over the
Maeander near Antioch. If we measure along the natural line of
the road, which would take the shortest line, avoiding the heavy soil
of the central valley and keeping near the fringe of the southern hills,
we find that Karoura must have been at the western end of a series of
remarkable hot springs, in the vicinity of the village of Tekke, which
is marked by its name3 as bearer of the religious awe attaching to the
remarkable natural surroundings and to the ancient life of Karoura 4.
The precise site is determined by Strabo's statement that at
Karoura there were hot springs in the channel of the Maeander.
This phenomenon occurs about a mile N.E. from Tekke-Keui5, see
Ch. I § 1.
There is a temptation to identify Karoura with the village or town
that grew up round the temple of Men Karou ; but this is inconsistent
both with the distance given on the Peutinger Table, and with the
words of Strabo, who says that the temple was situated between
Karoura and Laodiceia6. He evidently shared the common Greek
idea that the name arose from the village being the Karian frontier
1 Seo Preller-Plew Griech. Mytliol. I Awe to Special Sites in Transactions of
106, 440: Preller-Robert I p. 134. the Oriental Congress 1892.
2 Measuring as carefully as I can, 6 The spot is marked on the railway
I find just 19 Roman miles along the survey given me by Mr. Purser. I have
direct road from the middle of Laodi- not visited it: when we rode from
ceia to the centre of Karoura; but it Serai-Keui to Ortakcke along the south
must be remembered that in the Table side of the valley in April 1884 the
half-miles at either end would naturally ground towards the river was too soft
be reckoned as complete miles. So the and marshy, and we had to keep up
distance from Apameia to Laodiceia can near the southern hills.
hardly be more than 70 M.P.; but it is " ptTu^vrris AaubinuasKal ravKapovpav
LXXI in the Table. iepbv tan Mtjdus Kdpov K.a\ovp.evov ti/xco-
3 Tekke, a religious building, seat of pevov d^ioXdyas p. 580. He says that
a set of dervishes. Karoura was the frontier of Caria, and
4 On this subject see my paper on it is only eight miles from the Kapros,
TJie Permanent Attachment of Religious the frontier river.