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App. III. PHRYGIA PACATIANA.
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swayed Malalas was this : Salutaris Phrygia is a province called after
the gospel of salvation preached there by St. Paul, and it can only have
received that name from Constantine \ But, as we have seen, the name
Salutaris came into use after 350, whereas the division is much older.
The governors of both Phrygias were simple praesides (rjyejxoves) about
411-3 (Notit. Dignit. Or.): so also a.d. 396 {Cod. Theodos. XI 23, 3,
reading Frygiae Pacatianae and not Ilggiae Palaestinae : see p. 81). But
in Hierocles c. 530 the governor of each is given as a consularis2.
Another change occurred in a.d. 536, when Justinian elevated the
governor of Phrygia Pacatiana to the rank of Comes. At the same time
he probably divided Pacatiana into three provinces, one under Hierapolis,
and one under Akmonia3. In the legendary acta of the Laodicean
St. Artemon the governor of the province is styled Comes; and the tale
must probably have taken literary form soon after a. d. 536. It is
probable that Flavius Anytos was one of the governors in the sixth
century; an inscription styled him ruv Xa^-poTaTov) Ko'/xrjra hioiK-qaavTa
rijv Zirapyov e£ovo~iav (BCH 18S7 p. 351).
When the themes were instituted the Lycos valley probably belonged
to the Thrakesian Theme 4; it seems for military purposes to be connected
with it rather than with the Anatolic Theme. The account of Constan-
tine Porphyrogenitus assigns all Phrygia Pacatiana to the Anatolic
Theme; but his language throughout his description of the Themes is
very loose and inaccurate; and he names Khonai, Laodiceia, Hierapolis,
in the Thrakesian Theme.
' Whether this derivation be correct
is uncertain: it was at least generally
believed.
2 So in a Eumcnian inscription (of
fifth century ?) the governor is \ap7rp6-
tiitos, which implies a member of
senate, whereas a simple f>raeses was
not so. See Cities and Bishoprics of
Phrygia no. 20 and the chapter on
Eumeneia in this book vol. II.
3 This division, however, may perhaps
have been only for ecclesiastical, not
for civil, purposes. The Notitiae of the
earlier class omit Akmonia and a group
of bishoprics around it; and the only
explanation of this seems to be that
the district was separated from the
metropolis of Laodiceia.
4 So also Schlumberger holds, Sigillo-
graphie de I'Emp. Byz. p. 254.
q a
83
swayed Malalas was this : Salutaris Phrygia is a province called after
the gospel of salvation preached there by St. Paul, and it can only have
received that name from Constantine \ But, as we have seen, the name
Salutaris came into use after 350, whereas the division is much older.
The governors of both Phrygias were simple praesides (rjyejxoves) about
411-3 (Notit. Dignit. Or.): so also a.d. 396 {Cod. Theodos. XI 23, 3,
reading Frygiae Pacatianae and not Ilggiae Palaestinae : see p. 81). But
in Hierocles c. 530 the governor of each is given as a consularis2.
Another change occurred in a.d. 536, when Justinian elevated the
governor of Phrygia Pacatiana to the rank of Comes. At the same time
he probably divided Pacatiana into three provinces, one under Hierapolis,
and one under Akmonia3. In the legendary acta of the Laodicean
St. Artemon the governor of the province is styled Comes; and the tale
must probably have taken literary form soon after a. d. 536. It is
probable that Flavius Anytos was one of the governors in the sixth
century; an inscription styled him ruv Xa^-poTaTov) Ko'/xrjra hioiK-qaavTa
rijv Zirapyov e£ovo~iav (BCH 18S7 p. 351).
When the themes were instituted the Lycos valley probably belonged
to the Thrakesian Theme 4; it seems for military purposes to be connected
with it rather than with the Anatolic Theme. The account of Constan-
tine Porphyrogenitus assigns all Phrygia Pacatiana to the Anatolic
Theme; but his language throughout his description of the Themes is
very loose and inaccurate; and he names Khonai, Laodiceia, Hierapolis,
in the Thrakesian Theme.
' Whether this derivation be correct
is uncertain: it was at least generally
believed.
2 So in a Eumcnian inscription (of
fifth century ?) the governor is \ap7rp6-
tiitos, which implies a member of
senate, whereas a simple f>raeses was
not so. See Cities and Bishoprics of
Phrygia no. 20 and the chapter on
Eumeneia in this book vol. II.
3 This division, however, may perhaps
have been only for ecclesiastical, not
for civil, purposes. The Notitiae of the
earlier class omit Akmonia and a group
of bishoprics around it; and the only
explanation of this seems to be that
the district was separated from the
metropolis of Laodiceia.
4 So also Schlumberger holds, Sigillo-
graphie de I'Emp. Byz. p. 254.
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