492 PLITfT'S NATITEAL HISTOET. [Book Y. 



former capital, Gordiuin^ The G-auls" wlio have settled in 

 these parts, are called the Tolistobogi, the Voturi, and the 

 Ambitouti ; those who dwell in Mseonia and Paphlagonia 

 are called the Trocmi. Cappadocia stretches along to the 

 north-east of Gralatia, its most fertile parts being possessed 

 by the • Tectosages and the Tentobodiaci. These are the 

 nations by which those parts are occupied ; and they are 

 divided into peoples and tetrarchies, 195 in number. Its 

 towns are, among the Tectosages, Ancyra^ ; among the 

 Trocmi, Tavium^ ; and, among the Tolistobogi, Pessinus*. 

 Besides the above, the best known among the peoples of 

 this region are the Actalenses, the Arasenses, the Comen- 

 ses^, the Didienses, the Hierorenses, the Lystreni'', the 

 Neapolitani, the (Eandenses, the Seleucenses^, the Sebas- 



^ Mentioned in C. 40, under the name of Gordiucome. 



2 Who mvaded and settled in Asia Minor, at various periods during 

 the third century B.C. 



2 Near a small stream, which seems to enter the Sangarius. It ori- 

 ginally b'^longed to Phrygia, and its mythical founder was Midas, the 

 son of Grordius, who was said to have found an anchor on the spot, and 

 accordingly given the name to the town ; wliich story woidd, however, 

 as it has been observed, imply that the name for anchor (dyKvpa) was the 

 same in the Greek and the Phrygian languages. The Tectosages, who 

 settled here about B.C. 277, are supposed to have been fi'om the neigh- 

 boxu'liood of Toulouse. It is now called Angora, or Engareh ; and the 

 fine hair of the Angora goat may have formed one of the staple com- 

 modities of the place, which had a very considerable trade. The cliief 

 monument of antiquity here is the marble temple of the Emperor 

 Augustus, built in his honour during his lifetime. In the inside is the 

 Latin inscription knovra as the monumenfum, or marmor Ancyranwm^ 

 containing a record of the memorable actions of Augustus. The ruins 

 here are otherwise interesting in a liigh degree. 



^ Now Tchoroum, according to Ansart. 



^ Its ruins are called Bala-Hisar, in the south-west of Galatia, on 

 the southern slope of Mount Didymus. Tliis place was celebrated as 

 a chief seat of the worship of the goddess Cybele, under the surname of 

 Agdistis, whose temple, filled with riches, stood on a hill outside of 

 the city. 



^ Hardouin suggests that these are the Chomenses, the people of the 

 rity of Choma, in the interior of Lycia, mentioned in C. 28 of the 

 present Book. 



7 The people of Lystra, a city of Lycaonia, on the confines of 

 Isauria, celebrated as one of the chief scenes of the preaching of Paul 

 and Barnabas. See Acts xiv. 



8 The people of Seleucia, in Pisidia. 



