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SYNNADA.
[ClIAI'. Xtl.
the position of which, important as it is for the geography
of this part of Asia Minor, has never yet been ascertained ;
and it cannot be satisfactorily fixed until other places,
whose positions are known, shall be laid down with relative
correctness.
Considering the importance of Synnada as a key to the
ancient geography of this part of Phrygia, it is to be
regretted that so few details regarding its position have
been left us by the ancients. These are confined to the
Peutinger Table, to Livy, Cicero, and Strabo. The Table
places it on the road from Dorylseum to Apamea Cibotus,
at the spot where another road branches off to Philomelium
and Laodicea Combusta. Doryla3um, Apamea, and Philo-
melium are now well known as being respectively at Eski
Sheher, Deenair, and Ak Sheher. The distances given are,
from Dorylasum to Synnada 64 M. P., Apamea to Synnada
73, Philomelium to Synnada 67; but it should be observed
that there is no certainty respecting the distance from Dory-
lseum to Docimia. From Livy * we learn that Manlius
passed through Synnada on his march from the Campus
Metropolitanus to the frontiers of Galatia, and we have
rather a minute detail of the route. Cicero only tells usf
that he passed through Synnada on his way from Apamea
to Philomelium and Iconium, and that he stopped there
three days; and he mentions in another letter,% that it was
a place where he intended to hold a court (agere forum).
This indeed is confirmed by Pliny, in whose time it was
the capital of a Conventus Juridicus. Strabo says §
it was not a large town, but situated close to a fertile
plain (producing olives, as he says), of sixty stadia, beyond
which was the village of Docimia, and the quarry of Syn-
nadic marble, as it was called by the Romans, although the
natives called it Docimitic.
There is a slight discrepancy between the Table, which
places Docimia at thirty-two M. P. from Synnada, and
* Lib. xxxviii. c. 15. f Epist. ad AH. lib. v. lfi.
{ Epist ad AU.. v. 21. J Lib. xn. c. 8.
SYNNADA.
[ClIAI'. Xtl.
the position of which, important as it is for the geography
of this part of Asia Minor, has never yet been ascertained ;
and it cannot be satisfactorily fixed until other places,
whose positions are known, shall be laid down with relative
correctness.
Considering the importance of Synnada as a key to the
ancient geography of this part of Phrygia, it is to be
regretted that so few details regarding its position have
been left us by the ancients. These are confined to the
Peutinger Table, to Livy, Cicero, and Strabo. The Table
places it on the road from Dorylseum to Apamea Cibotus,
at the spot where another road branches off to Philomelium
and Laodicea Combusta. Doryla3um, Apamea, and Philo-
melium are now well known as being respectively at Eski
Sheher, Deenair, and Ak Sheher. The distances given are,
from Dorylasum to Synnada 64 M. P., Apamea to Synnada
73, Philomelium to Synnada 67; but it should be observed
that there is no certainty respecting the distance from Dory-
lseum to Docimia. From Livy * we learn that Manlius
passed through Synnada on his march from the Campus
Metropolitanus to the frontiers of Galatia, and we have
rather a minute detail of the route. Cicero only tells usf
that he passed through Synnada on his way from Apamea
to Philomelium and Iconium, and that he stopped there
three days; and he mentions in another letter,% that it was
a place where he intended to hold a court (agere forum).
This indeed is confirmed by Pliny, in whose time it was
the capital of a Conventus Juridicus. Strabo says §
it was not a large town, but situated close to a fertile
plain (producing olives, as he says), of sixty stadia, beyond
which was the village of Docimia, and the quarry of Syn-
nadic marble, as it was called by the Romans, although the
natives called it Docimitic.
There is a slight discrepancy between the Table, which
places Docimia at thirty-two M. P. from Synnada, and
* Lib. xxxviii. c. 15. f Epist. ad AH. lib. v. lfi.
{ Epist ad AU.. v. 21. J Lib. xn. c. 8.