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2. SITUATION AND TERRITORY. 37
to the god and his priests, went to them for guidance, obeyed them,
and were governed by them. The oriental never seeks for, or wishes,
individual liberty: he prefers to be governed.
2. Kilarazos is mentioned in inscr. 4, as erecting a tomb to one of
its members (just as cities and corporations often did). If we may
judge from the place where it was found, Kilarazos adjoined Eleino-
kapria, lying south-east from it and extending towards Denizli.
A coin shows Laodiceia1, a woman wearing a turreted crown, sitting
between (bPYTIA and KAPIA, represented as two standing female
figures. Now the ancient authorities are at variance whether Laodi-
ceia belongs to Caria or to Phiygia. Ptolemy, Stephanus (s. v.
Antiocheia), and the Oracula Sibyllina III 471 place it in Caria.
Philostratus says (Vit. Sojih. I 25) that Polemon was born at Laodi-
ceia in Caria, but some pages later mentions that, in Polemon's later
life, Laodiceia was classed to Phrygia2. We must then interpret the
coin strictly in the sense that Laodiceia was actually a frontier city,
touching Carian territory on one side. The Kapros then must have
been the boundary of Caria. Now the tez'm Caria must be understood
under the Empire as defined by the limits of the conventus of
Alabanda; and we thus infer that Attouda, Trapezopolis and Kidra-
mos, which lay immediately to the west of Laodiceia, were in that
conventus (pp. 168, 173 n, 85, 52).
The frontier of Caria was greatly changed at the provincial reor-
ganization of Diocletian about A.D. 297. Attouda and Trapezopolis
were attached to Phrygia, and the frontier then followed the long-
ridge of the Tchibuk-Dagh, which, rising from the Maeander valley
opposite Ortakche, runs S.E. up into the lofty M. Salbakos.
§ 3. History, Trade, Finance. Of its history under the Greek
kings hardly anything is known; but it was apparently far from
being a great city3. Addenda.
In 220 Achaeus assumed the crown and title of King at Laodiceia4.
Beyond this it is hardly mentioned before 190 B.C., when it was
assigned to Eumenes, as being part of Phrygia.
1 The best description and represen- Philostratus speaks as he does in order
tation is given by Schlosser Nutnism. to explain a discrepancy in his authori-
ze. 1891 p. 1. ties, some of whom mentioned Laodiceia
2 Stephanus s. v. AaoS/xein, assigns it as Carian, others as Phrygian. On the
to Lydia. Polybius V 57, Strabo, Pliny, explanation of the divergence see § 7 c.
&c. treat it as Phrygian. Philostratus's 3 Its prosperity dated eft fjfiav (i. e.
statements might suggest that Laodiceia since 64 B.C.) kuI rav fjfKTepav warepav
was actually transferred from Caria to Strab. p. 578, a phrase which sums up
Phrygia in Polemon's early life ; but the century b. c.
this can hardly be correct. Probably 4 He marched from Lydia against
to the god and his priests, went to them for guidance, obeyed them,
and were governed by them. The oriental never seeks for, or wishes,
individual liberty: he prefers to be governed.
2. Kilarazos is mentioned in inscr. 4, as erecting a tomb to one of
its members (just as cities and corporations often did). If we may
judge from the place where it was found, Kilarazos adjoined Eleino-
kapria, lying south-east from it and extending towards Denizli.
A coin shows Laodiceia1, a woman wearing a turreted crown, sitting
between (bPYTIA and KAPIA, represented as two standing female
figures. Now the ancient authorities are at variance whether Laodi-
ceia belongs to Caria or to Phiygia. Ptolemy, Stephanus (s. v.
Antiocheia), and the Oracula Sibyllina III 471 place it in Caria.
Philostratus says (Vit. Sojih. I 25) that Polemon was born at Laodi-
ceia in Caria, but some pages later mentions that, in Polemon's later
life, Laodiceia was classed to Phrygia2. We must then interpret the
coin strictly in the sense that Laodiceia was actually a frontier city,
touching Carian territory on one side. The Kapros then must have
been the boundary of Caria. Now the tez'm Caria must be understood
under the Empire as defined by the limits of the conventus of
Alabanda; and we thus infer that Attouda, Trapezopolis and Kidra-
mos, which lay immediately to the west of Laodiceia, were in that
conventus (pp. 168, 173 n, 85, 52).
The frontier of Caria was greatly changed at the provincial reor-
ganization of Diocletian about A.D. 297. Attouda and Trapezopolis
were attached to Phrygia, and the frontier then followed the long-
ridge of the Tchibuk-Dagh, which, rising from the Maeander valley
opposite Ortakche, runs S.E. up into the lofty M. Salbakos.
§ 3. History, Trade, Finance. Of its history under the Greek
kings hardly anything is known; but it was apparently far from
being a great city3. Addenda.
In 220 Achaeus assumed the crown and title of King at Laodiceia4.
Beyond this it is hardly mentioned before 190 B.C., when it was
assigned to Eumenes, as being part of Phrygia.
1 The best description and represen- Philostratus speaks as he does in order
tation is given by Schlosser Nutnism. to explain a discrepancy in his authori-
ze. 1891 p. 1. ties, some of whom mentioned Laodiceia
2 Stephanus s. v. AaoS/xein, assigns it as Carian, others as Phrygian. On the
to Lydia. Polybius V 57, Strabo, Pliny, explanation of the divergence see § 7 c.
&c. treat it as Phrygian. Philostratus's 3 Its prosperity dated eft fjfiav (i. e.
statements might suggest that Laodiceia since 64 B.C.) kuI rav fjfKTepav warepav
was actually transferred from Caria to Strab. p. 578, a phrase which sums up
Phrygia in Polemon's early life ; but the century b. c.
this can hardly be correct. Probably 4 He marched from Lydia against