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 BOOK XII. CAPPADOGIA. SUMMARY. The Twelfth Book contains the remainder of Pontus, viz. Cappadocia, Gala tia, Bithynia, Mysia, Phrygia, and Maeonia : the cities, Sinope in Pontus, Heracleia, and Amaseia, and likewise Isauria, Lycia, Pamphylia, and Cilicia, with the islands lying along the coast ; the mountains and rivers. CHAPTER I. 1. l CAPPADOCIA consists of many parts, and has expe- rienced frequent changes. The nations speaking the same language are chiefly those who are bounded on the south by the Cilician Taurus, 2 as it is called ; on the east by Armenia, Colchis, and by the inter- vening nations who speak different languages ; on the north by the Euxine, as far as the mouth of the Halys ; 3 on the west by the Paphlagonians, and by the Galatians, who migrated into Phrygia, and spread themselves as far as Lycaonia, and the Cilicians, who occupy Cilicia Tracheia (Cilicia the moun- tainous). 4 2. Among the nations that speak the same language, the ancients placed the Cataonians by themselves, contra-dis- tinguishing them from the Cappadocians, whom they con- sidered as a different people. In the enumeration of the nations they placed Cataonia after Cappadocia, then the Euphrates, and the nations on the other side of that river, so as to include even Melitene in Cataonia, although Melitene lies between Cataonia and the Euphrates, approaches close to Commagene, and constitutes a tenth portion of Cappadocia, 1 The beginning is wanting, according to the opinion of critics, Xy- lander, Casaubon, and others. 2 The range of mountains to the S. of Caramania. 3 Kizil-Irmak. * Itsch-Ili.