Apollonius
4. Of APHRODISIAS in Cilicia, is called by Suidas a high priest and an historian. He is said to have written a work on the town of Tralles, a second on Orpheus and his mysteries, and a third on the history of Caria (Καρικά), of which the eighteenth book is Imenttioned, and which is often referred to by Stephanus of Byzantium. (s. vv. Βάργασα, Χουσαορὶς, Ἄγκυρα, Χωλὸν τεῖχος; Etym. M. s. v. Ἅρπασος, &c.)
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