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Zela," and at the foot of Mount Argseus*' Mazaoa, now called 

 Ceesarea." That part of ,Cappadocia which lies stretched out 

 before the Greater Armenia is called Melitene, before Com^ 

 magene Cataonia, before Phrygia Garaanritis, Sargarausene,™ 

 and Cammanene, before Galatia Morimene, where their terri- 

 tories are divided by the river Cappadox," from which this 

 people have taken their name ; they were formerly known as 

 the Leucosyri."* From Neoesesarea above mentioned, the 

 lesser Armenia is separated by the river Lycus. In the in- 

 terior also there is the famous river Ceraunus,'' and on the 

 coast beyond the town of Amisus, the town and river of 

 Chadisia," and the town of Lycastum/' after which the region 

 of Themiscyra'* begins. 



native place of Apollonius, the supposed worker of miracles, whom the 

 enemies of Christianity have not scrupled to place on a par with Jesus 

 Christ. 



^ Some ruins, nineteen geographical miles from Ayas, are supposed to 

 denote the site of ancient Castabala or Castabulum. 



" This place was first called Eupatoria, but not the same which Mithri- 

 dates united with a part of Amisus. D'Anville supposes that the modern 

 town of Tchenikeb occupies its site. 



" Or Ziela, now known as Zillah, not far south of Amasia. It was 

 here that Julius Ceesar conquered Fharnaces, on the occasion on which he 

 wrote his dispatch to Eom,e, '' Veni, Tidi, vici." 



'* Still known by the name of Ardgeh-Dagh. 



*' Its site is still called Kaisiriyeh. It was a city of the district Cilicia, 

 in Cappadocia, at the base of the mountain Argseus. It was first called 

 Mazaca, and after that, Eusebeia. There are considerable remains of the 

 ancient city. 



«» Hardouin remarks, that the district of Sargarausene was not situate 

 in front of Phrygia, hut lay between Morimene and Colopenene, in the 

 vicinity of Pontus. 



«i Now known as the Konax, a tributary of the Halys, rising in Mount 

 Littarus, in the chain of Paryadres. 



62 Or " White Syrians." Strabo says that in his time both the Cappa- 

 docian peoples, those situate above the Taurus and those on the Euxine, 

 were CEdled Leucosyri, or White Syrians, as there were some Syrians who 

 were black, and who dwelt to the east of the Amanus. 



** It is doubtful whether this is the name of a river or a town. Not- 

 withstanding its alleged celebrity, nothing is known of it. 



^ Hecatseus, as quoted by Stepbanus Byzantinus, speaks of Chadisia as 

 a city of the Leucosyri, or Cappadocians. Keither the river nor the town 

 appears to have been identified. 



^ Probably on the river of that name, which has been identified with 

 the Mers Imak, a river two or three miles east of the Acropolis of Amisus. 



^ The extensive plain on the coast of Pontus, extendmg east of the 

 river Iris, beyond the Thermodon, and celebrated as the country of the 



