Soloe

, or Soli , a town of Cyprus, built on the borders of the Clarius by an A then i an colony. It was originally called Æpeia , till Solon visited Cyprus, and advised Philocyprus, one of the princes of the island, to change the situation of his capital. His advice was followed; a new town was raised in a beautiful plain, and called after the name of the A then i an philosopher. Strabo , bk. 14 .— Plutarch , Solon .――A town of Cilicia on the sea-coast, built by the Greeks and Rhodians. It was afterwards called Pompeiopolis , from Pompey, who settled a colony of pirates there. Pliny , bk. 5 , ch. 27 .— Dionysius of Halicarna us. Some suppose that the Greeks, who settled in either of these two towns, forgot the purity of their native language, and thence arose the term Solecism us , applied to an inelegant or improper expre ion.