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228 VI. COLOSSAI AND THE ROADS TO THE EAST.
would appear that Apameia had disappeared as a city, and that, since
the eastern road had been changed, there were very vague ideas
current as to the distance of the sources of the Maeander from the
path which was in use. Lainpe and Siblia were the two points on
the road nearest the site of Apameia. Nicetas was a rhetorician; and
the use of the ancient name Kelainai instead of Apameia shows that
here he is introducing a rhetorical and antiquarian digression. This
passage is one in which (as Finlay l remarks in another connexion)
Nicetas ' requires to be read with great caution in order to separate
his meaning from his rhetoric' Aware that Lampe was near Kelainai,
he seized the pretext to introduce a piece of fine writing about the
wonderful natural features of Kelainai, which evidently he had never
seen. Moreover we shall see in the next section that, owing to the
old dominion of Apameia, a place west of Lampe is mentioned as
beside Apameia.
Further, there is now an idea widely spread in the western country
that the Maeander rises in the vast marshes of the Siblian country,
fed by the rich fountain of Geuk-Bunar. Travellers often may notice
this belief. For example, when Arundel inquired at Bash-Tcheshme
between Khonas and Tchardak 2 about the Maeander, all the Turks
who were present' agreed in stating its sources to be at Ishekli,' which
is the site of Eumeneia. Apparently the same belief was current in
the same country in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; Cinnamus
evidently held it; and Nicetas may have inferred that Kelainai (familiar
to him from Herodotus and Xenophon, whereas Apameia was unknown
to him) was near this source, of which he had been told.
A passage of Anna Comnena refers to the Turkish invaders of the
coast-lands encamped at Lampe. This must be a different place,
evidently not at a very great distance south from Adramyttion3.
The same place probably is called an Asian village by Cinnamus 4.
§ 11. Khaeax and Geaos Gala. When Lampe is fixed, the other
1 Compare Rtihl inFleckeisen's Jahrbh. 3 irvdofievos Ss ire pi t<ov TovpKav na\
1883 p. 745. The words of Nicetas might fiepaOrjK&s Kara Trpi Adp.nr]v toutovs ra Tore
be used to prove that fugitive slaves ten ivhiarplfieiv II 250.
feet high were quite common in the i Arjurjrpios 'Pwpaios pev yivos Aafmrjs
streets of Constantinople. Se km/htjs app-q^ivos 'A.aiavijs p. 251.
2 Seven Churches p. 155. He does not Lampe near Khoma was not in Byzan-
name Bash-Tcheshme; but his descrip- tine Asia. Joannes of Lampe, a friend
tion leaves no doubt. One often observes of Xiphilin, made archbishop of Bul-
that the source of a river in Turkey is garia by Constantine X (1059-67), may
held to be some special fountain which have belonged to either village or to
is by no means the head of the longest Lampe (Lappa) of Crete : Scylitz. p. 659.
branch. Appa is (L)appa, see Addenda.
would appear that Apameia had disappeared as a city, and that, since
the eastern road had been changed, there were very vague ideas
current as to the distance of the sources of the Maeander from the
path which was in use. Lainpe and Siblia were the two points on
the road nearest the site of Apameia. Nicetas was a rhetorician; and
the use of the ancient name Kelainai instead of Apameia shows that
here he is introducing a rhetorical and antiquarian digression. This
passage is one in which (as Finlay l remarks in another connexion)
Nicetas ' requires to be read with great caution in order to separate
his meaning from his rhetoric' Aware that Lampe was near Kelainai,
he seized the pretext to introduce a piece of fine writing about the
wonderful natural features of Kelainai, which evidently he had never
seen. Moreover we shall see in the next section that, owing to the
old dominion of Apameia, a place west of Lampe is mentioned as
beside Apameia.
Further, there is now an idea widely spread in the western country
that the Maeander rises in the vast marshes of the Siblian country,
fed by the rich fountain of Geuk-Bunar. Travellers often may notice
this belief. For example, when Arundel inquired at Bash-Tcheshme
between Khonas and Tchardak 2 about the Maeander, all the Turks
who were present' agreed in stating its sources to be at Ishekli,' which
is the site of Eumeneia. Apparently the same belief was current in
the same country in the twelfth and thirteenth centuries; Cinnamus
evidently held it; and Nicetas may have inferred that Kelainai (familiar
to him from Herodotus and Xenophon, whereas Apameia was unknown
to him) was near this source, of which he had been told.
A passage of Anna Comnena refers to the Turkish invaders of the
coast-lands encamped at Lampe. This must be a different place,
evidently not at a very great distance south from Adramyttion3.
The same place probably is called an Asian village by Cinnamus 4.
§ 11. Khaeax and Geaos Gala. When Lampe is fixed, the other
1 Compare Rtihl inFleckeisen's Jahrbh. 3 irvdofievos Ss ire pi t<ov TovpKav na\
1883 p. 745. The words of Nicetas might fiepaOrjK&s Kara Trpi Adp.nr]v toutovs ra Tore
be used to prove that fugitive slaves ten ivhiarplfieiv II 250.
feet high were quite common in the i Arjurjrpios 'Pwpaios pev yivos Aafmrjs
streets of Constantinople. Se km/htjs app-q^ivos 'A.aiavijs p. 251.
2 Seven Churches p. 155. He does not Lampe near Khoma was not in Byzan-
name Bash-Tcheshme; but his descrip- tine Asia. Joannes of Lampe, a friend
tion leaves no doubt. One often observes of Xiphilin, made archbishop of Bul-
that the source of a river in Turkey is garia by Constantine X (1059-67), may
held to be some special fountain which have belonged to either village or to
is by no means the head of the longest Lampe (Lappa) of Crete : Scylitz. p. 659.
branch. Appa is (L)appa, see Addenda.