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6. ATTES AND METER ADRASTOS. 171
{Kap5>v opia); but this is a piece of popular etymology. Karoura is
probably derived from the name of the god Karou, and was doubtless
originally in the territory under his influence.
We might also be tempted to identify Menokome, mentioned by
Strabo p. 557, with the holy village around the temple of Men Karou.
But this is impossible, for Athenaeus II p. 43 says that there were hot
springs at Menokome, and in the same sentence he describes the hot
springs of Karoura as a different place. I formerly made this error
(Hist. Geogr. p. 135), supposing that the temple might have stood
a little way east of Karoura. The result of the false position for the
temple was that the site near Gereli had to be identified with Attouda,
leaving the site near Assar on the higher ground for Trapezopolis.
Karoura derived some importance from being the half-way station
between Laodiceia and Antioch. Hence there grew up at Karoura
various establishments for the service of the baths and the convenience
of the numerous travellers along the great Highway; and the only
fact recorded about it relates to this character. It was peculiarly
liable to earthquakes ; and in one of these a large company of women
(such as would congregate in a town of passengers and fashionable
baths) disappeared with their master (Strab. p. 578). Athenaeus
mentions the waters as hard and very hot, while those of Menokome
were harsher and impregnated with nitre1.
§ 8. Trapezopolis. The site of this city has not as yet been fixed
by any epigraphic evidence. It was in the conventus of Alabanda,
and therefore cannot have been situated in the Lycos valley or on the
road from Laodiceia to Kibyra, for in either case it must have been
included in the Cibyratic conventus. But it was reckoned to Bhrygia
Pacatiana throughout the Byzantine period; and therefore it must
have been close to Phrygian territory, and cannot have been situated
in the great plain of Tabai, for all cities from Sebastopolis westward
were in Byzantine Caria. These facts led me to suppose that Trapezo-
polis must be situated in the hilly country between the valley of
Tabai and the road Laodiceia-Themissonion-Cibyra; and the explora-
tions of the Asia Minor Fund in 1884 and 1886 were directed with
a view to make the expected discovery. The result however was that
no trace of any city, and no apparent room for a city, could be found
west of that road on the south of M. Salbakos without trespassing on
territory which is proved to be Oarian. Trapezopolis therefore lay
north of M. Salbakos near the frontier between Caria and Phrygia and
west of Laodiceia in such a position that, when the Phrygian frontier
1 II 43 A: Kaibel proposes KaTaa-KXtjpa for Kard^rjpa.
{Kap5>v opia); but this is a piece of popular etymology. Karoura is
probably derived from the name of the god Karou, and was doubtless
originally in the territory under his influence.
We might also be tempted to identify Menokome, mentioned by
Strabo p. 557, with the holy village around the temple of Men Karou.
But this is impossible, for Athenaeus II p. 43 says that there were hot
springs at Menokome, and in the same sentence he describes the hot
springs of Karoura as a different place. I formerly made this error
(Hist. Geogr. p. 135), supposing that the temple might have stood
a little way east of Karoura. The result of the false position for the
temple was that the site near Gereli had to be identified with Attouda,
leaving the site near Assar on the higher ground for Trapezopolis.
Karoura derived some importance from being the half-way station
between Laodiceia and Antioch. Hence there grew up at Karoura
various establishments for the service of the baths and the convenience
of the numerous travellers along the great Highway; and the only
fact recorded about it relates to this character. It was peculiarly
liable to earthquakes ; and in one of these a large company of women
(such as would congregate in a town of passengers and fashionable
baths) disappeared with their master (Strab. p. 578). Athenaeus
mentions the waters as hard and very hot, while those of Menokome
were harsher and impregnated with nitre1.
§ 8. Trapezopolis. The site of this city has not as yet been fixed
by any epigraphic evidence. It was in the conventus of Alabanda,
and therefore cannot have been situated in the Lycos valley or on the
road from Laodiceia to Kibyra, for in either case it must have been
included in the Cibyratic conventus. But it was reckoned to Bhrygia
Pacatiana throughout the Byzantine period; and therefore it must
have been close to Phrygian territory, and cannot have been situated
in the great plain of Tabai, for all cities from Sebastopolis westward
were in Byzantine Caria. These facts led me to suppose that Trapezo-
polis must be situated in the hilly country between the valley of
Tabai and the road Laodiceia-Themissonion-Cibyra; and the explora-
tions of the Asia Minor Fund in 1884 and 1886 were directed with
a view to make the expected discovery. The result however was that
no trace of any city, and no apparent room for a city, could be found
west of that road on the south of M. Salbakos without trespassing on
territory which is proved to be Oarian. Trapezopolis therefore lay
north of M. Salbakos near the frontier between Caria and Phrygia and
west of Laodiceia in such a position that, when the Phrygian frontier
1 II 43 A: Kaibel proposes KaTaa-KXtjpa for Kard^rjpa.