. xxvii. 5, 0). There are still magni-ficent ruins of the city, in great part hewn outof the rock. Myriandus (MvplavSos), a Phoenician colonyin Syria, on the E. side of the Gulf of Issus, adays journey from the Cilician Gates ( i. 4,0; Arrian, An. ii. 0, 1). It probablystood a little S. of Alexandria, at a spot wherethere are ruins. Herodotus calls the Gulf ofIssus A VlupiaiiSiKbs kuKttos (iv. 38). Hyrina (7; MupiVa, or Mvpiva, Mvpivva, Mvpivq:Mvptvaios). 1. (Sandarlik!), a very ancientand strongly fortified city on the W. coa
. xxvii. 5, 0). There are still magni-ficent ruins of the city, in great part hewn outof the rock. Myriandus (MvplavSos), a Phoenician colonyin Syria, on the E. side of the Gulf of Issus, adays journey from the Cilician Gates ( i. 4,0; Arrian, An. ii. 0, 1). It probablystood a little S. of Alexandria, at a spot wherethere are ruins. Herodotus calls the Gulf ofIssus A VlupiaiiSiKbs kuKttos (iv. 38). Hyrina (7; MupiVa, or Mvpiva, Mvpivva, Mvpivq:Mvptvaios). 1. (Sandarlik!), a very ancientand strongly fortified city on the W. coast ofMysia, founded, according to mythical tradi- tion, by Myrinus or by the Amazon Myrina, andcolonised by the Aeolians, of whose confederacyit formed a member (Hdt. i. 149 ; Strab. p. 505).Within its territory, at Gryneum, was an ancientoracle of Apollo. It was also called Smyrna,and, under the Roman empire, Sebastopolis:it was made by the Romans a civitas was destroyed by earthquakes under Tiberiusand Trajan, but each time rebuilt. (Liv. Coin of Myrina (2nd cent. ). head of Apollo; rev., ; Apollo with pa-ter*; before him omphalos and vase; laurel wreathsurrounding. 30; Tac. Ann. ii. 47; Oros. vii. 12.) It was thebirthplace of the epigrammatic poet Agathias.—2. [See Myrlea (MupAeia: MvpAedvos : Amapoli, Ru.,a little distance inland from Mudauich), a cityof Bithynia, not far from Prusa, founded by theColophonians, and almost rebuilt by Prusias I.,who called it Apamea after his wife. TheRomans colonised it under Julius Caesar andAugustus. (Strab. pp. 503, 564; Plin. v. 149.) Myrmecides iMi/p/r/)(a8?js), a sculptor andengraver, of Miletus or Athens, is generallymentioned in connexion with Callicrates, likewhom he was celebrated for the minuteness ofhis works. [ His works in ivorywere so that they could scarcely be seenwithout placing them on black hair. (Varro,L. It. ix. 62 ; Cic. Acad. ii. 38 ; Suid. ) Myr
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