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 492 PLITfT'S NATITEAL HISTOET. [Book Y. former capital, Gordiuin^ The G-auls" wlio have settled in these parts, are called the Tolistobogi, the Voturi, and the Ambitouti ; those who dwell in Mseonia and Paphlagonia are called the Trocmi. Cappadocia stretches along to the north-east of Gralatia, its most fertile parts being possessed by the • Tectosages and the Tentobodiaci. These are the nations by which those parts are occupied ; and they are divided into peoples and tetrarchies, 195 in number. Its towns are, among the Tectosages, Ancyra^ ; among the Trocmi, Tavium^ ; and, among the Tolistobogi, Pessinus*. Besides the above, the best known among the peoples of this region are the Actalenses, the Arasenses, the Comen- ses^, the Didienses, the Hierorenses, the Lystreni'', the Neapolitani, the (Eandenses, the Seleucenses^, the Sebas- ^ Mentioned in C. 40, under the name of Gordiucome. 2 Who mvaded and settled in Asia Minor, at various periods during the third century B.C. 2 Near a small stream, which seems to enter the Sangarius. It ori- ginally b'^longed to Phrygia, and its mythical founder was Midas, the son of Grordius, who was said to have found an anchor on the spot, and accordingly given the name to the town ; which story woidd, however, as it has been observed, imply that the name for anchor (dyKvpa) was the same in the Greek and the Phrygian languages. The Tectosages, who settled here about B.C. 277, are supposed to have been from the neigh- boxu'liood of Toulouse. It is now called Angora, or Engareh ; and the fine hair of the Angora goat may have formed one of the staple com- modities of the place, which had a very considerable trade. The cliief monument of antiquity here is the marble temple of the Emperor Augustus, built in his honour during his lifetime. In the inside is the Latin inscription knovra as the monumenfum, or marmor Ancyranwm^ containing a record of the memorable actions of Augustus. The ruins here are otherwise interesting in a liigh degree. ^ Now Tchoroum, according to Ansart. ^ Its ruins are called Bala-Hisar, in the south-west of Galatia, on the southern slope of Mount Didymus. Tliis place was celebrated as a chief seat of the worship of the goddess Cybele, under the surname of Agdistis, whose temple, filled with riches, stood on a hill outside of the city. ^ Hardouin suggests that these are the Chomenses, the people of the rity of Choma, in the interior of Lycia, mentioned in C. 28 of the present Book. 7 The people of Lystra, a city of Lycaonia, on the confines of Isauria, celebrated as one of the chief scenes of the preaching of Paul and Barnabas. See Acts xiv. 8 The people of Seleucia, in Pisidia.