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THEMISONION (Ancient city) FRYGIA
Themisonium (Themisonion: Eth. Themisonios), a town of Phrygia, near
the borders of Pisidia, whence in later times it was regarded as a town of Pisidia.
(Strab. xii. p. 576; Paus. x. 32; Ptol. v. 2. § 26; Steph. B. s. v.; Plin. v.
29; Hierocl. p. 674; Geogr. Rav. i. 18.) Pausanias relates that the Themisonians
showed a cave, about 30 stadia from their town, in which, on the advice of Heracles,
Apollo, and Hermes, they had concealed their wives and children during an invasion
of the Celts, and in which afterwards they set up statues of these divinities.
According to the Peuting. Table, Themisonium was 34 miles from Laodiceia. Arundell
(Discoveries, ii. p. 136), guided by a coin of the place, fixes its site on the
river Azanes, and believes the ruins at Kai Hissar to be those of Themisonium;
but Kiepert (in Franz's Funf Inschriften, p. 29) thinks that the ruins of Kisel
Hisser, which Arundell takes to mark the site of Cibyra, are those of Themisonium.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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