Erana

• a town in Cilicia, near Mount Amanus, Cic. Fam. 15, 4, 8.

ERANA(ἡ Ἔρανα), a town in Messenia, mentioned by Strabo as lying upon the road between Cyparissia and Pylos. It was, probably, near the promontory Cyparissium. According to Strabo, it was erroneously identified by some with the Homeric Arene. (Strab. viii. pp. 348, 361; Leake, Morea, vol. 1. p. 426, seq.)

ERANAa place in Cilicia. Cicero ( ad Fam. 15.4), after leaving Epiphaneia [EPIPHANEIA], ascended the Amanus, and he took Erana, a place not of the character of a village, but of a city, and the capital of the nation. He also took Sepyra and Commoris. The sites of these places are unknown, but they were in eastern Cilicia, on some part of Mount Amanus.

(Ἔρανα). (1) A town on Mount Amanus, the chief seat of the Eleutherocilices in the time of Cicero (Ad Fam. xv. 4).

(2) A town of Messenia.