In 798 he was appointed missis dominicus, and two years later performed so great services for Leo III.
From this point it flows west, and then south-west past Missis, until it makes a bend to discharge its waters south of Ayas Bay.
The river is navigable as far as Missis.
Adana is connected with Tersus and Mersina by a railway built in 1887, and has a magnificent stone bridge, which carries the road to Missis and the east, and dates in parts from the time of Justinian, but was restored first in 743 A.D.
Through it ran the great highway, between the east and the west, on which stood Tarsus on the Cydnus, Adana on the Sarus, and Mopsuestia (Missis) on the Pyramus.
