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SECT. 12.-Of Pamphylia Prima and Secunda.

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The next province on the same shore, is Pamphylia, divided by the Romans into two, called Pamphylia Prima and Secunda. In the second of them, which bordered upon Lycia, Carolus à Sancto Paulo reckons twenty-six dioceses. 1. Perga, the metropolis. 2. Termessus. 3. Eudoxias. 4. Maximianopolis. 5. Palæopolis. 6. Pentenessus. Diciozanabrus, or Zenopolis. 8. Ariassus. 9. Pugla. 10. Adriana. 11. Attalia. 12. Magidis. 13. Olbia. · 14. Corbasa. 15. Lysinia. 16. Cordylus. 17. Lagania. 18. Panemoticus. 19. Geone. 20. Commachum. 21. Silvium. 22. Pisinda, or Sinda vel Isinda. 23. Talbonda. 24. Unzela. 25. Gilsata. 26. Pella. To which Holstenius adds five more, Colobrassus, Coracesium, Senna, Primopolis, and Seleucia. But three of these are by Carolus à Sancto Paulo set in the other Pamphylia with nine more in this order. 1. Sida, the metropolis. 2. Aspendus. 3. Etene. 4. Erymne. 5. Cassus. 6. Semneum, which is the same with Senna before mentioned. 7. Carallus. 8. Coracesium, mentioned before. 9. Sysdra. 10. Lyrbæ. 11. Colibrassus. 12. Selga. To which Holstenius adds Cotana, which makes the whole number in these two provinces forty-one. And the number is some evidence that they were comparatively but small. Sometimes, as Holstenius. has observed, two of them were united together. For in the council of Constantinople under Flavian, one Sabinianus subscribes himself bishop of Eudocias, Termessus, and fobia.' Which we find in the first session of the council of Chalcedon. And in the time of Leo Sapiens some more of them were united together; for his Notitia has but thirtysix dioceses in both the provinces. Yet any of them single were of a competent extent, to confute the notion of those who make episcopal dioceses only parish-churches.

SECT. 13.-Of Lycaonia.

On the north side of Pamphylia more within land, lay the province of Lycaonia, where we find nineteen dioceses.

1 Con. Chalced. Act. 1. tomi iv. p. 230.

1. Iconium, the metropolis. 2. Lystra. 3. Derb;-eall mentioned in the Acts of the Apostles. 4. Onosada, or Usada. 5. Amblada. 6. Honomada. 7. Laranda. 8. Baratta. 9. Hyda. 10. Sabatra. 11. Canna. 12. Berinopolis. 13. Ilistra. 14. Perte. 15. Arana, or Baratta. 16. Isaura. 17. Misthium. 18. Corna. 19. Pappa. To which Holstenius adds another, called Hydmautus, or Gadamautus, in the Acts of the council of Chalcedon. But the Notitia of Leo Sapiens has but fifteen.

SECT. 14.-Of Pisidia.

In the next province of Pisidia, Carolus à Sancto Paulo finds twenty dioceses. 1. Antiochia, the metropolis. 2. Sagalassus. 3. Sozopolis. 4. Apamea. 5. Tityassus. 6. Baris. 7. Adrianopolis. 8. Limenopolis. 9. Laodicea Combusta. 10. Seleucia. 11. Adada. 12. Mallus. 13. Siniandus. 14. Metropolis. 15. Paralaus. 16. Bindeum. 17. Philomelium, which some place in Phrygia. 18. Prostama. 19. Gortena. 20. Theodosiopolis. The Notitia of

Leo Sapiens augments the number to twenty-three. stand not to make any particular remarks upon these dioceses, because any reader, that knows these two provinces, will easily imagine they are not to be compared with the other dioceses in the northern parts of Pontus.

SECT. 15.-Of Phrygia Pacatiana and Salutaris.

The last provinces in the Asiatic diocese, are those which the old Greeks and Romans called by one common name, Phrygia Major; but the Roman Emperors divided it at first into two, and then into three provinces, one called Phrygia Salutaris from the medicinal waters found there, another Phrygia Pacatiana, or as some books read it corruptly, Capatiana, and a third, Pacatiana Secunda. In Phrygia Salutaris, Carolus à Sancto Paulo reckons up twenty dioceses. 1. Synnada, the metropolis. 2. Dorylæum. 3. Polybotus. 4. Nacolia. 5. Midaium. 6. Hipsus. 7. Prymnesia. 8. Myrum, or rather Merum. 9. Eucarpia. 10. Lysias. 11. Augustopolis. 12. Brysum. 13. Otrum. 14. Stectorium. 15. Cinnaborium. 16. Amadassa. 17. Cotyaium. 18. Præpenissus. 19. Docimæum. 20. Amorium.

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In Phrygia Pacatiana Prima, he recounts twenty-nine. 1. Laodicea, the metropolis. 2. Tiberiopolis. 3. Azana. 4. Itoana, or Bitoana. 5. Ancyra Ferrea, which Holstenius observes to be sometimes attributed to the province of Lydia adjoining. 6. Cidissus. 7. Egara, which Holstenius corrects into Alianą. 8. Pelte. 9. Apira. 10. Cadi. 11. Tranopolis, or Trajanopolis. 12. Sebasta. 13. Eumenia.

14. Temenothyræ. 15. Aliona. 16. Trapezopolis. 17. Silbium. 18. Ilusa. 19. Nea. 20. Chæretapa. 21. Colossa, now called Chone. 22. Sinaus. 23. Philippopolis.

24. Themisonium. 25. Sanis. 26. Acmonia. 27. Theodosiopolis. 28. Bleandrus. 29. Atanassus. Holstenius strikes out one of the number, for Nea is but a corruption of the Greek for Sanæa, or Sanans, as he shows, but he finds out another, called Dioclia, to supply its room.

In Pacatiana Secunda there were but five dioceses, being by much the least of all the provinces. 1. Hierapolis, the metropolis. 2. Dionysiopolis. 3. Anastasiopolis. 4. Mosynus. 5. Attudi. But this province being of later erection, these dioceses are more commonly attributed to Phrygia Pacatiana, without any distinction. Now I observe of Phrygia in general, that some of its dioceses, bordering upon Galatia, were, like those of Galatia and the other Pontic provinces, of a larger extent than the rest about Hierapolis and Laodicea, which two metropolitical sees were not at a very great distance from one another: Ferrarius, in one place, says, but six miles; but it seems to be a typographical error, for, in another place, he makes Colossæ1 to be between Hierapolis and Laodicea, upon the confluence of the rivers Lycus and Mæander, at twenty miles distance from them both. So that there must be a mistake one way or other. Pliny is very exact in describing the situation of Laodicea, for he says, "it stood upon the Lycus, and had its walls washed also with the Asopus and the Caprus:" but yet he does not tell us how far the confluence of these rivers was from the confluence of the Lycus with the

1 Ferrar. Lexic. Voce, Colossæ.

2 Plin. lib. v. c. 19. Celeberrima urbs Laodicea imposita est Lyco flumini, latera alluentibus Asòpo et Capro.

Mæander, where Colossæ stood. But it may be concluded it was at no great distance from it, since all authors agree that Laodicea stood near the Mæander; and these three cities, Colossæ, Hierapolis, and Laodicea, which St. Paul joins together, are said, by Chrysostom, Theodoret, and others, to be very near each other. They who have opportunity to consult Antonine's Itinerary, which at present I have not, may perhaps find them more exactly described, and limited with more certain bounds than I can pretend to assign them. If the first opinion of Ferrarius be true, and agreeable to Antonine, that they lay but six miles asunder; then it will readily be concluded, that the dioceses in this part of Phrygia were comparatively very small, since, by Carolus à Sancto Paulo's description, Itoana, Trapezopolis, Attudi, Mosynus, and Antioch upon the Mæander, in Caria, seem not to have been at much greater distances from one another.

SECT. 16-Of Isauria and Cilicia.

Beside these several provinces of the Asiatic and Pontic dioceses in Asia Minor, there were also three provinces in it which were reckoned to the eastern diocese and the patriarchate of Antioch, viz. Isauria, Cilicia Prima, and Cilicia Secunda, which must be spoken of in this place. Isauria was anciently reckoned only a part of Cilicia; but, from the time of Constantine, both in the civil and ecclesiastical account, it was esteemed a distinct province. Carolus à Sancto Paulo mentions twenty-two dioceses. 1. Seleucia, the metropolis. 2. Celenderis. 3. Anemurium. 4. Lamus. 5. Antiochia ad Tragum. 6. Selinus, or Trajanopolis. 7. Iotape. 8. Diocæsarea. 9. Philadelphia. 10. Domitiopolis. 11. Titopolis. 12. Hierapolis. 13. Nephelis. 14. Dalisandus. 15. Claudiopolis, or Isaura. 16. Germani

copolis. 17. Sbide, or Isis. 18. Cestrus. 19. Olbus. 20. Lybias. 21. Hermopolis. 22. Irenopolis. To which Holstenius adds two more, Charadra, and Lauzada, which is sometimes written corruptly, Vasada, and Nauzada.

In Cilicia Prima there were eight dioceses. 1. Tarsus, the metropolis. 2. Pompeiopolis. 3. Sebaste. 4. Coricus. 5. Adana. 6. Mallus. 7. Zephyrium. 8. Augusta,

added by Holstenius, who shows it to be a distinct place from Sebaste.

In the other Cilicia there are reckoned nine. 1. Anazarbus, the metropolis. 2. Mopsuestia. 3. Ægæ. 4. Epiphania. 5. Irenopolis. 6. Flaviopolis. 7. Castabala. 8. Alexandria, now called Scanderon. 9. Rossus, in the confines of Syria. The greatest part of these were large dioceses, like those of Syria, as any one that computes the distance between Epiphania, Alexandria, Rossus, &c. will easily imagine.

SECT. 17.-Of Lazica, or Colchis.

Some reckon Lazica, which was anciently called Colchis, an appendix to Asia Minor, and therefore I mention it in this place. It is all the country on the Euxine sea, from Trabezond, in Pontus, to Phasis, which Strabo reckons near 200 miles. The modern Notitiæ speak but of five dioceses, but that of Leo Sapiens, in Leunclavius, has fifteen. It was first made a Roman province in the time of Justinian,' who mentions the cities that were in it, Petra and Justiniana; with four castles, Pitius, Sebastopolis, Archæopolis, and Rhodopolis, which had anciently been in the hands of the Romans; and four other castles, Scandias, Sarapenes, Murisios, and Lusieros, which he had lately taken out of the hands of the Persians. Of these, one is as ancient as the council of Nice: for Stratophilus, bishop of Ptyusium or Pitius, subscribes there among the bishops of Pontus Polemoniacus, to which province it was then annexed, as lying in Solo Barbarico, and not constituting any other province. In the sixth general-council there is mention of Petra and Phasis, the metropolis; and that is all the account we have of them in the ancient councils.

SECT. 18. Of the Isle of Lesbos, and the Cyclades.

Another appendix to Asia Minor are the lesser islands of the Ægean sea, which constituted a province by themselves. Carolus à Sancto Paulo reckons four dioceses in Lesbos itself. 1. Mytelene. 2. Methymna. 3. Tenedos.

Justin. Novel. 28.

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