Note 767 — Chapter V · Lydia

Poll. IX. 83; so Heraclides, F.H.G. II. p. 216; Radet, p. 160, acutely argues from the association here of Cyme and Phrygia that this account associates the invention of money with the great caravan route, of which Cyme was the main terminus before the rise of the Lydian Mermnadae, about which time it was replaced by Ephesus, the Greek city with which the Lydians maintained the most friendly terms; cp. Ramsay, J.H.S. IX. (1888), pp. 350 f., followed by S. Reinach, Chroniques d’Orient, I. p. 574, Radet, Lydie, p. 172.