Gagae
Γάγαι
Gagae (Γάγαι: Eth. Γαγαῖος), a town on the south-east coast of Lycia, from which the Gagates lapis derived its name. (Plin. Nat. 5.18, 36.34; Steph. B s.v. Nicand. Ther. 37; Galen, vol. xii. p. 203, ed. Kühn; Hierocl. p. 683, with Wesseling's note.) Ruins at Aladjá are regarded by Leake (Asia Minor, p. 185, foll.) as marking the site of the ancient Gagae, while Sir Charles Fellowes identifies the place with the modern village of Hascooe, where ruins stand upon and between two isolated rocks, now literally covered with walls. (Discov. in Lycia, p. 210.)
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.