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² Larisa, Chalcis, Arethusa: Pliny VI, 160; Tarn, *JEA* XV p. 11. Trapezus: Steph. *s.v.* The others have already been mentioned. L. Robert, *Villes d’Asie Mineure* 1935 p. 154, makes Larisa, Chalcis, Arethusa on the Persian Gulf in Pliny VI, 160 duplicates of the towns of the same name in North Syria which are scattered through Pliny V, 81-2. I fear that I cannot agree. Pliny makes strange blunders and has strange duplicates, as this book will show, but in this case his source knew certain things about these three towns in Arabia which he summarises as deleta variis bellis; and that does not apply to the towns in Syria. A duplicate implies a confusion behind it, and he could hardly confuse the well-known North Syria with peninsular Arabia.