ANAZARBUS (Pliny), ANAZARBA (Stephanus); a town of Cilicia, on the river Pyramus, the birth-place of Dioscorides, and of the poet Oppian. It was sometimes called Casarea, in honour either of Augustus or of Tiberius. The inhabitants are called Anazarbeni (Pliny), and on coins Anazarbeni after the Greek idiom. It was destroyed by a dreadful earthquake in the year 525, along with several other important cities: but they were all repaired at a vast expence by the emperor Justin; who was so much affected with their misfortune, that, putting off the diadem and purple, he appeared for several days in sackcloth.