Anchiăle

and Anchiala , a city on the sea coast of Cilicia. Sardana pal us, the last king of As syria, built it, with Tarsus in its neighbourhood, in one day. Strabo , bk. 14 .— Pliny , bk. 5 , ch. 27 . The founder was buried there, and had a statue, under which was a famous inscription in the Syrian language, denoting the great intemperance and di ipation which distinguished all his life. There was a city of the same name in Thrace, called by Ovid the city of Apollo. There was another in Epirus. Ovid , Tristia , bk. 1 , poem 10, li. 36 .— Pliny , bk. 4 , ch. 11 .— Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 2 .