Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . eing formed with sur-rounding walls or moles, which are 50 feet in thick-ness and 7 in height. Opposite to the entrance ofthe harbour a portico rises from the surroundingquay, and opens to a double row of 200 colunms,which, crossing the town, communicates with theprincipal gate towards the country. Of the 200coinums no more than 42 are now standing; theremainder lie on the spot where they fell, intermixedwith a vast assemblage of other ruined *buildingswhich were connected with the colonnade. Thetheatre is almost entirely destroyed. The citywalls, stre
Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . eing formed with sur-rounding walls or moles, which are 50 feet in thick-ness and 7 in height. Opposite to the entrance ofthe harbour a portico rises from the surroundingquay, and opens to a double row of 200 colunms,which, crossing the town, communicates with theprincipal gate towards the country. Of the 200coinums no more than 42 are now standing; theremainder lie on the spot where they fell, intermixedwith a vast assemblage of other ruined *buildingswhich were connected with the colonnade. Thetheatre is almost entirely destroyed. The citywalls, strengthericd by numerous towers, entirelysurrounded the town. Detached ruins, tombs, andsarcophagi were tbund scattered to some distancefrom the walls, on the outside of the town, and it isevident that the whole country was once occupiedby a numerous and industrious ]>pople. Ihe nativesnow call the ]ilaco (Conip. Leake, AsiaMinor, p. 213, full.) Ihe little river which passedthrough Soli was called Liparis, from the oily nature. CUlN OF SOLL 1020 SOLI. of its waters. (Vitruv. viii. 3; Antig. Cnryst. 150;Plin. I. c.) Pliny (xsxi. 2) mentions in the vicinity, which are reported bylleaufort to e.\ist at Bikhardi), about six hours walkto the north-east of Meseflu. [L. S.] SOLI or SOLOE (2oAoi, Ptol. v. 14. § 4), animportant seaport town in the W. part of tlie of Cyprus, situated on a .small river. ( p. 683.) According to Plutarch (Sol. 26) itwas founded by a native prince at the suggestion ofSolon and named in honour of that legislator. Thesojourn (if Solon in Cyprus is mentioned by He-rodotus (v. 113). Other accounts, however, makeit an Athenian settlement, founded under theauspices of Plialerus and Acamas (Strab. I. c), or ofDemophon, the son of Theseus (Piut. I. c). Welearn from Strabo (/. c.) that it had a temple ofAphrodite and one of Isis; and from Galen (rZeSimj). Med. ix. 3, 8) that there were mines in itsneighbourhood. The in
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