. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . chos to Tabae. Itmust then have been a considerable place, for, havingprovoked the hostility of the Romans, it was orderedto pay 20 talents of silver and furnish 10,000medimni of wheat. Livy remarks that it stood onthe borders of Pisidia towards the shore of thePamphylian sea. There can be no doubt thatDAnville is correct in identifying the modernThaotu or Davas, a place of some note north-eastof Moglak, with the ancient Tabae. Col. Leake( I? Minor, p. 153), relying too implicitly onStrabo, looks too far east for its site; for Hierocles 1082 TAB ALA.
. Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography . chos to Tabae. Itmust then have been a considerable place, for, havingprovoked the hostility of the Romans, it was orderedto pay 20 talents of silver and furnish 10,000medimni of wheat. Livy remarks that it stood onthe borders of Pisidia towards the shore of thePamphylian sea. There can be no doubt thatDAnville is correct in identifying the modernThaotu or Davas, a place of some note north-eastof Moglak, with the ancient Tabae. Col. Leake( I? Minor, p. 153), relying too implicitly onStrabo, looks too far east for its site; for Hierocles 1082 TAB ALA. (p. 689) distinctly enumerates it among the Cariantowns. Davos is a large and well-built town, andthe capital of a considerable district; the governorsresidence stands on a height overlooking the town,and commanding a most magnificent view. (Richter,Wallfahrten, p. 543; Franz, Filnf Inschriften, ) It should be observed that Pliny (v. 27) mentionsanother town in Cilicia of the name of Tabae, ofwhich, however, nothing is known. [L. COIN OF TABAE. TABALA (TdSaAa), a town of Lydia near theriver Hermus, is known only from coins found inthe country; but it is no doubt the same as the onementioned by Hierocles (p. 670) under the name ofGabala, which is perhaps only miswritten for is even possible that it may be the town of Tabaewhich Stephanus Byz. assigns to Lydia. Some traceof the ancient place seems to be preserved in thename of the village Tonbaili on the left bank of theHermus, between Adala and Kula. [L. S.] TABANA (Tdgava, Ptol. iii. 6. § 6), a place inthe interior of the Chersonesus Taurica. [ TABASSI (TdSaaaoi, Ptol. vii. 1. § 65), a tribeof Indians who ocupied the interior of the southern?nart of Hindostdn, in the neighbourhood of thepresent province of Mysore. Their exact positioncannot be determined, but they were not far distantfrom M. Bettigo, the most S. of the 17. derived their name from the Sanscrit Tapasja, woods. (Lassen, Ind
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