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422 XI. APAMEIA.
As to the dialect of Greek that was spoken in Apameia and other
Seleucid colonies, hardly any evidence remains. In the colonies
peopled by Macedonians, we should naturally expect that a dialect of
Greek with some Doric forms was gradually merged in the general
type (kolvti) of Hellenistic Greek. Even in Laodiceia there occur some
names of Doric type1, though Macedonian settlers are not known
there.
Apameia had its legend of an attack by the Galatai and defence by
its native deity : Marsyas protected them by his waters and the strains
of his flute2. Probably a Galatic legend was a proper adjunct to
the history of every city of western Asia Minor 3, and few of them
have any value beyond attesting the wide terror and destruction
caused by the inroad 4.
One of the two palaces, probably that of Xerxes, which was
within the fortified line of Apameia and therefore was a safer abode,
continued to be the residence of the Seleucid kings when they visited
this part of their dominions. There, in 193, took place the meeting
between Antiochus the Great and the Roman envoy, P. Villius. But
negotiations were only beginning when news arrived that the young
prince Antiochus had died in Syria; and Villius, seeing the palace
filled with mourning, courteously retired to Pergamos, in order not to
intrude at such a time 6.
After his disastrous expedition into Greece, Antiochus returned to
Apameia in the autumn of 191, and spent the winter in collecting
a great army 6, and in the spring marched by the Lycos valley and
Sardis against the Pergamenian capital.
§ 16. The Pergamenian and Roman Conquest. Late in the autumn
of j 90, Antiochus re-entered Apameia, after the crushing defeat at
Magnesia. There he heard the news brought by successive couriers.
The citizens and garrison of Sardis, disregarding Zenon commander of
the city and Timon of Lydia, had surrendered to the Romans : envoys
from Tralleis, from Magnesia Mae., and from Ephesos, had gone to
place their cities under the Roman power: all the cities of Asia were
1 Compare Damokrates and Labas released from the Seltucid rule and
p. 39. garrisons and tribute.
2 Paus. X 30, 9. ° Ne alieno tempore incommodus obver-
3 See p. 264. saretur, Livy XXXV 15. Magni luctus
i The terror inspired by the Galatai species regiam tenuit, ibid.
is shown in Polyb. 22, 24: the peoples c Livy XXXVII8 ipse inFhrygiaMber-
of Asia Minor were more delighted at navit&c; 18 Antiochus ab Apamea pro-
being freed by Manlius from fear of the fectus.
barbarian than they had been at being
As to the dialect of Greek that was spoken in Apameia and other
Seleucid colonies, hardly any evidence remains. In the colonies
peopled by Macedonians, we should naturally expect that a dialect of
Greek with some Doric forms was gradually merged in the general
type (kolvti) of Hellenistic Greek. Even in Laodiceia there occur some
names of Doric type1, though Macedonian settlers are not known
there.
Apameia had its legend of an attack by the Galatai and defence by
its native deity : Marsyas protected them by his waters and the strains
of his flute2. Probably a Galatic legend was a proper adjunct to
the history of every city of western Asia Minor 3, and few of them
have any value beyond attesting the wide terror and destruction
caused by the inroad 4.
One of the two palaces, probably that of Xerxes, which was
within the fortified line of Apameia and therefore was a safer abode,
continued to be the residence of the Seleucid kings when they visited
this part of their dominions. There, in 193, took place the meeting
between Antiochus the Great and the Roman envoy, P. Villius. But
negotiations were only beginning when news arrived that the young
prince Antiochus had died in Syria; and Villius, seeing the palace
filled with mourning, courteously retired to Pergamos, in order not to
intrude at such a time 6.
After his disastrous expedition into Greece, Antiochus returned to
Apameia in the autumn of 191, and spent the winter in collecting
a great army 6, and in the spring marched by the Lycos valley and
Sardis against the Pergamenian capital.
§ 16. The Pergamenian and Roman Conquest. Late in the autumn
of j 90, Antiochus re-entered Apameia, after the crushing defeat at
Magnesia. There he heard the news brought by successive couriers.
The citizens and garrison of Sardis, disregarding Zenon commander of
the city and Timon of Lydia, had surrendered to the Romans : envoys
from Tralleis, from Magnesia Mae., and from Ephesos, had gone to
place their cities under the Roman power: all the cities of Asia were
1 Compare Damokrates and Labas released from the Seltucid rule and
p. 39. garrisons and tribute.
2 Paus. X 30, 9. ° Ne alieno tempore incommodus obver-
3 See p. 264. saretur, Livy XXXV 15. Magni luctus
i The terror inspired by the Galatai species regiam tenuit, ibid.
is shown in Polyb. 22, 24: the peoples c Livy XXXVII8 ipse inFhrygiaMber-
of Asia Minor were more delighted at navit&c; 18 Antiochus ab Apamea pro-
being freed by Manlius from fear of the fectus.
barbarian than they had been at being