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CHAPTER III. 

 Cappadocia. 



IN the interior of Cappadocia is a Colony founded by 

 Claudius Ccesar, called Archelais, situated upon the River 

 Halys. The Town Comana, by which the (River) Sarus 

 runneth: Neo-Csesarea, washed by the Lycus : and Amasia, 

 on the River Iris, in the Country Gazacena. In Colopena, 

 also, are Sebastia and Sebastopolis : little Towns, but equal 

 with those abovesaid. In the other part (of Cappadocia) is 

 the City Melita, built by Queen Semiramis, not far from the 

 Euphrates : also, Dio-Csesarea, Tyana, Castabala, Magno- 

 polis, Zela : and under the Mountain Argseus, Mazaca, which 

 now is named Csesarea. That part of Cappadocia which lieth 

 before Armenia the Greater, is called Meliten : that which 

 bordereth upon Comagene, Cataonia : upon Phrygia, Gar- 

 sauritis : upon Sargaurasana, Cammanen : and upon Ga- 

 latia, Morimen. And there the River Cappadox separateth 

 the one from the other. From this River the Cappadocians 

 took their Name, having formerly been called Leucosyri. 

 The River Lycus divideth the above-named new Armenia 

 from Neo-Csesarea. Within the Country there runneth also 

 the famous Ceraunus. But on the Coast beyond Amysum is 

 the Town Lycastum, and the River Chadisia: and still fur- 

 ther the Country Themiscyra. The River Iris, bringing 

 down the Lycus. In the midland Parts the City Ziela, 

 ennobled by the slaughter of Triarius,* and the Victory of 

 C. CcBsar. In the Coast the River Thermodon, which 

 issueth from before a Castle named Phanaroea, and passeth 



1 Triarius, a Roman general under Lucullus in the Mithridatic war, was 

 defeated by the enemy, at the battle of Ziela, with the loss of 7000 of his 

 men. And at the same place, some years afterwards, Julius Caesar gained 

 an important victory over Pharnaces, the son of Mithridates, deprived 

 him of the kingdom of Pontus, and entirely ruined his army. It was on 

 this occasion that Csesar, when describing the rapidity and despatch he 

 had employed in the victory, made use of the well-known sentence, 

 " Veni, vidi, vici," I came, I saw, I conquered. Wern. Club. 



