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arrangement1. Other reasons, however, make it practically certain
that Hyelion was on the Lydian bank, §11.
§11. Daldis. Hyelion may probably be identified as the town of
the people Hyaleis, who are mentioned as belonging to the same
bishopric as Daldis in Lydia 2. Daldis and Hyelion, therefore, were
either varying names of the same place, or were neighbouring towns,
Daldis being the more important in the Roman period, while Hyelion
became the centre of population in the disturbed Byzantine period :
the latter then may be expected to occupy a stronger position on the
hills, while the former may be looked for more in the plain {Hist.
Geogr. p. 87).
No evidence as to the situation of Daldis is known. Suidas says
that it was a city of Lydia (s. v. 'AprefiiSoopos). The Notitiae mention
it between Hierocaesareia and Stratonikaia-on-the-Kaikos; but the
order of enumeration in Byzantine Lydia is so arbitrary that no argu-
ment can be founded on it alone. Ptolemy places Dadaleis in Maeonia,
along with Saittai and Kadoi; and we ought perhaps to alter the
corrupt name Dadaleis to Daldeis ; but Sataleis has also been pro-
posed, and the text remains uncertain. If Daldeis is the proper
correction in Ptolemy, then we must conclude either that he puts the
city in a wrong place, or that the identification of Hyelion and Hyaleis,
which we have adopted as probable, must be abandoned. Moreover
the position near Saittai and Kadoi, assigned by Ptolemy, does not
suit the order of the Byzantine lists, so that none of the indications as
to the site of Daldis agree.
The situation of the people Hyaleis is equally obscure, apart from
Nicetas p. 352. It is quite probable that their town may be identified
with Kyalos, mentioned by Stephanus as a city of Lydia, founded by
Kyalos, son of Zeus3; and Kyalos may be taken as a heroized form of
Apollo. But this gives no evidence as to the situation.
The only clue to the situation of this bishopric lies in the passage
of Nicetas, and is founded on the proposed assignation of the people
1 E.g., in this passage he mentions thetical. It is not advisable to state
Tralleis before Antiocheia, though, as any opinion on topography till after at
we have just seen, the Turks must have least a year's deliberation,
captured Antiocheia first. 3 So Euromos appears on the Delian-
* Notit. X,Xm 6 AakSeav ifroi "YoXeW. tribute-lists in the forms 'Ypa/ojs and
Tomaschek zur histor. Topogr. v. Kleina- Kvpw/xJjr (CIA I 230-239 and 37, Six in
sien points out this identification, which Numism. Chron. 1890 p. 239). Imbert
I had not observed. I add this section identifies the Lycian Wehnta with Ki-
ns an afterthought on reading his sug- ipSa (Muston April 1891). Kortwa
gestive and learned treatise; but the and "Erewa seem identical names {Hist.
result in it is advanced as only hypo- Geogr. p. 418).
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arrangement1. Other reasons, however, make it practically certain
that Hyelion was on the Lydian bank, §11.
§11. Daldis. Hyelion may probably be identified as the town of
the people Hyaleis, who are mentioned as belonging to the same
bishopric as Daldis in Lydia 2. Daldis and Hyelion, therefore, were
either varying names of the same place, or were neighbouring towns,
Daldis being the more important in the Roman period, while Hyelion
became the centre of population in the disturbed Byzantine period :
the latter then may be expected to occupy a stronger position on the
hills, while the former may be looked for more in the plain {Hist.
Geogr. p. 87).
No evidence as to the situation of Daldis is known. Suidas says
that it was a city of Lydia (s. v. 'AprefiiSoopos). The Notitiae mention
it between Hierocaesareia and Stratonikaia-on-the-Kaikos; but the
order of enumeration in Byzantine Lydia is so arbitrary that no argu-
ment can be founded on it alone. Ptolemy places Dadaleis in Maeonia,
along with Saittai and Kadoi; and we ought perhaps to alter the
corrupt name Dadaleis to Daldeis ; but Sataleis has also been pro-
posed, and the text remains uncertain. If Daldeis is the proper
correction in Ptolemy, then we must conclude either that he puts the
city in a wrong place, or that the identification of Hyelion and Hyaleis,
which we have adopted as probable, must be abandoned. Moreover
the position near Saittai and Kadoi, assigned by Ptolemy, does not
suit the order of the Byzantine lists, so that none of the indications as
to the site of Daldis agree.
The situation of the people Hyaleis is equally obscure, apart from
Nicetas p. 352. It is quite probable that their town may be identified
with Kyalos, mentioned by Stephanus as a city of Lydia, founded by
Kyalos, son of Zeus3; and Kyalos may be taken as a heroized form of
Apollo. But this gives no evidence as to the situation.
The only clue to the situation of this bishopric lies in the passage
of Nicetas, and is founded on the proposed assignation of the people
1 E.g., in this passage he mentions thetical. It is not advisable to state
Tralleis before Antiocheia, though, as any opinion on topography till after at
we have just seen, the Turks must have least a year's deliberation,
captured Antiocheia first. 3 So Euromos appears on the Delian-
* Notit. X,Xm 6 AakSeav ifroi "YoXeW. tribute-lists in the forms 'Ypa/ojs and
Tomaschek zur histor. Topogr. v. Kleina- Kvpw/xJjr (CIA I 230-239 and 37, Six in
sien points out this identification, which Numism. Chron. 1890 p. 239). Imbert
I had not observed. I add this section identifies the Lycian Wehnta with Ki-
ns an afterthought on reading his sug- ipSa (Muston April 1891). Kortwa
gestive and learned treatise; but the and "Erewa seem identical names {Hist.
result in it is advanced as only hypo- Geogr. p. 418).
VOL. I. N