Chap. 9.] ACCOUNT OF COITNTEIES, ETC. 1 7 
Tnner^^ 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 Eome, 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 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 here 
is twelve hundred and fifty miles, its breadth six hundred 
and forty.^^ 
CHAP. 9. (9.) THE LESSEE AND THE GEEATEE AEMENIA. 
Greater Armenia, beginning at the mountains known as the 
Or Mediterranean. 
56 See Vol. i. p. 497. 
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. 
Eunning from the shores of the Euxine to the borders of Syria. 
I. e. on the eastern side. 
50 Meaning that part of Asia which we now call Asia Minor. 
5^ This ill agrees with what he has said in c. 2, that the distance across 
from Sinope to the Gulf of Issus is but 200 miles. 
62 Greater Armenia, now known as Erzeroum, Kars, 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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