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Irmer^^ Sea, and have enumerated the various nations that dwell 

 thereon ; let us now turn to those vast tracts of land which lie 

 further in the interior. I do not deny that in my description 

 I shall differ very materially from the ancient writers, but still 

 it is one that has been compiled with the most anxious research, 

 from a full examination into the events which have transpired 

 of late in these countries under the command of Domitius 

 Corbulo,^^ and from information received either from kings 

 who have been sent thence to Rome, as suppliants for our 

 mercy, or else the sons of kings who have visited us in the 

 character of hostages. 



We will begin then with the nation of the Cappadocians. 



Of all the countries of Pontus, this^' extends the greatest 

 distance into the interior. ^^ On the left^^ it leaves behind the 

 Lesser and the Greater Armenia, as weU as Commagene, and 

 on the right aU the nations of the province of Asia which 

 we have previously described. Spreading over numerous 

 peoples, it rises rapidly in elevation in an easterly direction 

 towards the range of Taurus. Then passing Lycaonia, Pisidia, 

 and Cilicia, it advances above the district of Antiochia, the 

 portion of it known as Cataonia extending as far as Cyrrhestica, 

 which forms part of that district. The length of Asia ^° here 

 is twelve hundi'ed and fifty miles, its breadth six hundred 

 and forty. ^^ 



CHAP. 9. (9.) THE LESSEE AND THE GREATER AEMENIA. 



Greater Armenia, ^^ beginning at the mountains known as the 



5° Or Mediterranean. 



^ See Vol. i. p. 497. 



5" He includes under the term " Cappadocia," the northern part origi- 

 nally called " Cappadocia ad Pontum," and in later times simply Pontus, 

 and the southern part, originally called " Cappadocia ad Taurum," and 

 more recently simply Cappadocia. 



^'* Punning from the shores of the Euxine to the borders of Syria. 



^^ I. e. on the eastern side. 



^0 Meaning that part of Asia which we now caU Asia Minor. 



^1 This ill agrees with what he has said in c. 2, tliat the distance across 

 from Sinope to" the Gulf of Issus is but 200 miles. 



^- Greater Armenia, now kno'wn as Erzeroum, Ears, Van, and Erivan, 



was bounded on the north-east and north by the river Cyrus, or Kur of 



the present day ; on the north-west and west by the Moschian mountains, 



the prolongation of the chain of the Anti-Taurus, and the Euphrates, or 



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