Strabo Geography 14.2.3

[3] The city ¹ has dockyards, and a harbor that can be closed. Above the city, on a height, lies Imbrus, a stronghold. Although the country is fertile, the city is agreed by all to have foul air in summer, as also in autumn, because of the heat and the abundance of fruits. And indeed little tales of the following kind are repeated over and over, that Stratonicus the citharist, seeing that the Caunians were pitiably ² pale, ³ said that this was the thought of the poet in the verse, ⁴ and when people complained that he was jeering at the city as though it were sickly, he replied, “Would I be so bold as to call this city sickly, where even the corpses walk about?” The Caunians once revolted from the Rhodians, but by a judicial decision of the Romans they were restored to them. And there is extant a speech of Molon ⁵ entitled Against the Caunians. It is said that they speak the same language as the Carians, but that they came from Crete and follow usages of their own. ⁶