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 Chap. 42.] ACCOUNT OF COTJNTRIES, ETC. 491 t'Miied as extending from the Promontory of Lectnm^ to ■ river Etheleus. On its northern side it borders upon , alatia, on the south it joins Lycaonia, Pisidia, and Myg- dMiiia, and, on the east, it touches upon Cappadocia. The re celebrated towns there, besides those ah-eady men- . lied, are Ancyra', Andria, Celsenje^ Coloss8e Carina*, ( ..tyaion^ Ceraine, Conium, and Midaium. There are ihors who say that the Mcesi, the Brygi, and the Thyni issed over from Europe, and that from them are descended " peoples called the Mysi, Phryges, and Bithyni. CHAP. 42. GALATIA AND THE ADJOINING NATIONS. On this occasion also it seems that we ought to speak of Galatia% which lies above Phrygia, and includes the greater part of the territory taken from that province, as also its 1 Cape Baba, or Santa Maria ; the south-western promontory of the Troacl. 2 In Plirygia Epictctus, or " Conquered Phrygia, so called Irom its conquest by ccrtam of the kmgs of Bithynia. Strabo calls this place a "small city, or hill-fortress, towards Lydia." It was probably situate near the source of the Macestus, now the SusughcrU Su, or the Simaul Su, as it is called in its upper course. 3 The place from which the citizens were removed to Apamea, as men- tioned in C. 29 of the present Book. Hamilton (Researches, &c., p. 499) supposes its acropohs to have been situate about half a mile from the Bom'ces of the river IVIarsvas. u u ■» First mentioned by Herodotus, and situate on the Lycus, a brancli of the Ma?ander. It had greatly declined in Strabo's time, and m tho midcUe ages there rose near it a town of the name of Chonrt', and Colossa) disappeared. Hamilton found extensive ruins of an ancient city about three miles north of the modern Khonos. It was one of the early Chris- tian chui-ches of A>ia, and the Apostle Paul addressed oneot liis Kpistles to the people of this place. It does not appear from it that he had ever visited the place; indeed, from Chap. u. 1 we may conclude that ho had not. ., ^, • .• i • 5 This does not appear to be the same as the Canno mentioned m C 32 of this Book, as having gone to decay. Its site is unknown. 6 Or Coticeum or Cotyaum. It was on the Roman road trora Dorvla^um to Philadelphia, and in Phrj-gia Epictctus, according to SHrabo. The modern Kutahiyah is supposed to denote its site; but there are no remains of ant i(iuity. ,..1.1 7 It was bounded on the west, south, and f^mth-enst by those countries; and on the north-east, north, and norlli-west by ioiitus, Paphlagonia, and Bithynia.