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Volume 3 · 77 words · 1860 Edition

afterwards Apollonia (Pliny, v. 32), an ancient city of Mysia, on the Gulf of Adramyttium, was the birthplace of Cleanthes the Stoic, and for some time the residence of Aristotle. Its ruins are contiguous to the modern village of Beiram, 35 miles W.S.W. of Mount Ida; and the whole is said by Colonel Leake to give, perhaps, the most perfect idea of a Greek city that anywhere exists—Leake's Asia Minor, p. 128; Fellowes's Asia Minor, p. 46.