Doliche
DO´LICHE (Δολίχη), a town in Perrhaebia in Thessaly, situated at the foot of Mount Olympus. Doliche, with the two neighbouring towns of Azorus and Pythium, formed a tripolis. Leake identifies it with the small village of Dúklista, (where in a ruined church are two fragments of Doric columns 2 feet 8 inches in diameter, and in the burying-ground a sepulchral stone, together with some squared blocks.( Plb. 28.11; Liv. 42.53, 44.2; Ptol. 3.13.42; Leake, Northern Greece, vol. 3. p. 344.)
DOLICHE, DOLICHISTE (Δολίχη, Δολιχίστη: Eth. Δολιχεύς, Δολιχίστης). Stephanus B. (s. v.) describes Doliche as an island close to the Lycian coast, on the authority of Callimachus; and he adds that Alexander, in his Periplus of Lycia, calls it Dolichiste. It is mentioned by Pliny (Plin. Nat. 5.31) and Ptolemy (Ptol. 5.3). Pliny places it opposite to Chimaera; and both Pliny and Ptolemy name it Dolichiste. Doliche or Dolichiste, a long island, as the name implies, is now called Kakava. It lies near the southern coast of Lycia, west of the ruins of Myra, and in front of the spacious bay also named Kalkava. The island is a narrow ridge of rock, incapable of yielding a constant supply of water; each house had therefore a tank hollowed in the rock, and lined with stucco.( Beaufort, Karamania, p. 21.) Leake (Asia Minor, p. 127) speaks of the ruins of a large city, with a noble theatre, at Kákava, in a fine harbour formed by a range of rocky islands.B ut this theatre appears, from what Leake says, to be on the coast of the mainland; and Beaufort observes that the whole of these islands and bays may be included under the general Greek name Kakava. T he island of Doliche is now uninhabited.
[G.L](Δολίχη). (1) A town of Thessaly in the Perrhaebian district, to the southeast of Azorus. Here the Roman consul Q. Marcius Philippus received a deputation from the Achaean League, at the head of which was Polybius, who accompanied the Roman army in their singular and perilous march through the defiles of Olympus into Pieria ( Liv. xlii. 53; id. xliv. 2).
(2) A town of Syria, situated in the district Euphratensis and northwest of Zeugma.
- Apollod. 2.6.3