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Melitene, the part bordering uii Commagene 

 Cataonia, that on Phrygia Garsauritis, that on 

 CammaneneSargaurasana,that on Galatia Morimene, 

 where the boundary between the two countries is 

 formed by the river Cappadox, from which the 

 Cappadocians take tlieir name — they were formerly 

 called the Wliite Syrians. The boundary between 

 Neocaesarea iibove mentioned and Lesser Armenia 

 is the river Lycus. In the interior there is also the 

 notable river Coeranus, and on the coast after Amisas 

 the towTi of Chadisia with the river of the same name, 

 and the town of Lycastus, after which the district 

 of Themiscyra begins. The river here is the Iris, Themiscyra. 

 with a tributary the Lycus. Inland is Ziela, the 

 city-state famous for the defeat " of Triarius and the 

 victory of Gaiiis Caesar.* On the coast is the river 

 Thermodon, which rises at the fortress called Phano- 

 rias and flows past the foot of the mountain Mason 

 Dagh ; there was formerly a town of the same name 

 as the river, and five others, Amazonium, Themiscyra, 

 Sotira, Amasia and Comana, and now there is 

 Matium;<^ (IV) the Caenares and Chalyl)os tribes, 

 the town of the Cotyi, the tribes of the Tibareni and 

 the Massyni — the latter practise tattooing, — the 

 Longhead tribe, the town of Cerasus, the harbour 

 of Cordule, the Bcchires and Buxeri tribes, the Black 

 River, the Machorones tribe, the Sideni, and the 

 river Sidenus which washes the town of Polemonium 

 120 miles from Amisus. Then come the rivers 

 lasonius and Melanthius, and 80 miles from Amisus 

 the town of Pharnacea, the fortress and river Tripolis, 

 the fortress and river Philocalia and the forlress of 

 Liviopolis, which is not on a river, and 100 miles 

 from Pharnacea the free tuwn of Trebizond, shut in 



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