This text is part of: Table of Contents:  Next to the mouth of
the Caÿster is a lake called Selinusia, formed by the
overflowing of the sea. It is succeeded by another, which
communicates with this. They afford a large revenue, of which
the kings, although it was sacred, deprived the goddess, but the
Romans restored it; then the tax-gatherers seized upon the
tribute by force, and converted it to their own use.
Artemidorus, who was sent on an embassy to Rome, as he says,
recovered possession of the lakes for the goddess, and also of
the territory of Heracleotis, which was on the point of
separating from Ephesus, by proceeding in a suit at Rome. In
return for these services, the city erected in the temple to his
honour a statue of gold. In the most retired part of the lake is
a temple of a king, built, it is said, by Agamemnon. This work
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