Μύρλεια, πόλις Βιθυνίας, ἡ νῦν λεγομένη Ἀπάμεια ἀπὸ Μύρλου τοῦ Κολοφωνίων ἡγεμόνος. Νικομήδης δὲ ὁ Ἐπιφανής, Προυσίου δὲ υἱός, ἀπὸ τῆς μητρὸς Ἀπάμας Ἀπάμειαν ὠνόμασεν· οἱ δὲ ἀπὸ Μυρλείας Ἀμαζόνος. ὁ πολίτης Μυρλεανός, ὡς Ἀσκληπιάδης Μυρλεανὸς ἀναγράφεται. Στράβων δὲ Μυρλεᾶτιν καλεῖ τὴν χώραν, ἴσως ἀπὸ τοῦ Μυρλεάτης. ἔστι καὶ Μυρλεανὸς κόλπος.
Myrlēa: a city of Bithynia, now Apameia. (So called) from Myrlos, leader of the Colophonians. Nicomedes surnamed Epiphanēs, son of Prusias, renamed it Apameia after his mother Apama; others (derive the name) from Myrlēa, an Amazon. The citizen is Myrlēanos, as in the record “Asklēpiadēs the Myrlēanos.” Strabo calls the region Myrlēatis, perhaps from the (ethnic) Myrlēatēs. There is also a Gulf of Myrlēanos.