(Pliny), ANAZAREA (Stephanus); a town of Cilicia, on the river Pyramus, the birthplace of Dioscorides, and of the poet Oppian. It was sometimes called Caforea, in honour either of Augustus or of Tiberius. The inhabitants are called Anazarebeni (Pliny), and on coins Anazarbes 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 expense by the emperor Justin; who was so much affected with their misfortune, that, putting off the diamond and purple, he appeared for several days in sack-cloth.