or APAMIS, a city of Bithynia, formerly called Myrlea, from Myrles, general of the Colophonians: destroyed by Philip, father of Perseus; and given to his ally Prusias, who rebuilt it, and called it Apamea, from the name of his queen Apama (Strabo). Stephanus says, that Nicomedes Epiphanes, son of Prusias, called it after his mother; and that it had its an-

R r r 2 ancient cient name from Myrlea, an Amazon. The Romans led a colony thither, (Strabo); called Celonea Apamea, (Pliny, Appian). The gentilious name is Apamea, or Apamena, (Trajan in a letter to Pliny).—Another Apamea, called Cibotus, of Phrygia, at some distance from the Meander, (Agathodemon); but by a coin of Tiberius, on the Meander. The name is from Apamea, mother of Antiochus Soter, the founder, and the daughter of Artabazus, (Strabo). The rise, or at least the increase, of Apamea, was owing to the ruins of Celene. The inhabitants are called Apamenes, (Tacitus).—A third, on the confines of Parthia and Media, furnished Raphane, (Strabo, Pliny).—A fourth Apamea, a town of Melene, an island in the Tigris, (Pliny, Ammian); where a branch of the Euphrates, called the Royal river, falls into the Tigris, (Ptolemy). A fifth in Mesopotamia, on the other side the Euphrates, opposite to Zeugma on this side, both founded by Seleucus, and joined by a bridge, from which the latter takes its name, (Pliny, Hidor, Characenus).—A sixth Apamea, now Amasia, also in Syria, below the confluence of the Orontes and Marfyas; a strong city, and situated in a peninsula, formed by the Orontes and a lake: it was a place of such plenty, that Seleucus, the founder of it, there maintained 500 elephants, (Strabo).—Apamea was also the ancient name of Pella, in the Decapolis.