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Inner 55 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, 56 and from information received either from kings 

 who have been sent thence to Borne, 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 57 extends the greatest 

 distance into the interior. 58 On the left 59 it leaves behind the 

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

 on the right all 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 60 here 

 is twelve hundred and fifty miles, its breadth six hundred 

 and forty. 61 



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



Greater Armenia, 62 beginning at the mountains known as the 



55 Or Mediterranean. 

 See Vol. i. p. 497. 



57 He includes under the terra " 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. 



58 Running from the shores of the Euxine to the horders of Syria. 



59 J. e. on the eastern side. 



60 Meaning that part of Asia which we now call Asia Minor. 



61 This ill agrees with what he has said in c. 2, that the distance across 

 from Sinope to the Gulf of Issus is hut 200 miles. 



62 Greater Armenia, now known as Erzeroum, Kars, Van, and Erivan, 

 was hounded 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, ftr 



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