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222 VI. CO LOSS AI AND THE ROADS TO THE EAST.
5,500) S.E. from Apameia, to the great mass of Ak-Dagh, which over-
hangs Eumeneia. A few miles below Apameia a narrow pass between
Djebel-Sultan and the ridge on the left allows the Maeander to pass
from the open Apamean valley to the Siblian valley, which-is really
a corner of the great, level, and extraordinarily fertile valley of
Eumeneia, called Ewmenetica regio by Pliny V 113 and Peltenon
Pedion by Strabo p. 629. Beside the river in the upper part of its
course is a great series of marshes or marshy lakes, fed by springs
which rise underneath Djebel-Sultan1; and another vast marsh be-
tween Siblia and Eumeneia is formed by the Cludrus (Ch. VII § 1).
Pliny V 106 mentions a people Silbiani in the conventus of Apameia;
and Ptolemy gives Silbion somewhere in the centre of Phrygia towards
the southern side. Hierocles mentions Peltai, Eumeneia, and Siblia
together; and so do the later Notitiae (giving the name as Soublaion,
on which see below). Cinnamus p. 298 describes Soublaion as being
close to the sources of the Maeander; and the Byzantine lists place it
in Pacatiana. It must therefore he west of Djebel-Sultan, for all east
of that ridge belongs to Salutaris ; and it must be north or west from
Apameia, for Apameia was in Pisidia. We are therefore compelled
to place it near the Maeander immediately below the territory of
Apameia.
As to the form of the name, coins with the legend CIBAIANflN or
CeiBAIANHN 2 justify Hierocles against Pliny and Ptolemy, and show
that the vowel of the first syllable was pronounced long. The later
Byzantine form Soublaion3 seems to be adjectival, meaning perhaps
the Siblian fortress (Kaarpov) or the Siblian estate (KTrj/ia)4.
The form of signature adopted by Eulalius at Chalcedon6 suggests
that he was bishop of the church in the Siblian country or the Siblian
fortress or estate; whereas it is hardly explicable if he were simply
bishop of a city Siblia, of the same class as Laodiceia or Attouda.
is a translation of some ancient name. 1887 pp. 394 and 399): cp. Briges and
Pliny calls this hill Sigma. Bruges or Brugoi; Akristis and Akrisias
1 Gok-Gol is a little above Tchandir from root krus according to Fici ; and
Bridge : Besh-Bunar, Five Springs, are the same variation is found in Illyrian
a few miles below Apameia. and Messapian names according to
2 The former appears on the earlier Deecke Rhein. Mus. XXXVI p. 586,
coins, struck under Augustus, the latter XXXVII p. 388. Compare "ifiapa and
on the later. " I/3?jpa Hist. Geogr. p. 328.
s The variation of vowel seems to i Compare ro BlvSmov (Krrjfui) Ch. IX.
be characteristic of Phrygian dialectic The usual accentuation in both is not
variation: the inscriptions show aiviv adjectival.
and aivovv, KuKiv and kukow (see Phrygian 6 EiXa\ior (nioKonos rf/? iv 2i[i\iava>
Inscriptions in Zft.f. vergl. Sprachforsch. iylas tov GeoO e/cxXqctas Act. III.
5,500) S.E. from Apameia, to the great mass of Ak-Dagh, which over-
hangs Eumeneia. A few miles below Apameia a narrow pass between
Djebel-Sultan and the ridge on the left allows the Maeander to pass
from the open Apamean valley to the Siblian valley, which-is really
a corner of the great, level, and extraordinarily fertile valley of
Eumeneia, called Ewmenetica regio by Pliny V 113 and Peltenon
Pedion by Strabo p. 629. Beside the river in the upper part of its
course is a great series of marshes or marshy lakes, fed by springs
which rise underneath Djebel-Sultan1; and another vast marsh be-
tween Siblia and Eumeneia is formed by the Cludrus (Ch. VII § 1).
Pliny V 106 mentions a people Silbiani in the conventus of Apameia;
and Ptolemy gives Silbion somewhere in the centre of Phrygia towards
the southern side. Hierocles mentions Peltai, Eumeneia, and Siblia
together; and so do the later Notitiae (giving the name as Soublaion,
on which see below). Cinnamus p. 298 describes Soublaion as being
close to the sources of the Maeander; and the Byzantine lists place it
in Pacatiana. It must therefore he west of Djebel-Sultan, for all east
of that ridge belongs to Salutaris ; and it must be north or west from
Apameia, for Apameia was in Pisidia. We are therefore compelled
to place it near the Maeander immediately below the territory of
Apameia.
As to the form of the name, coins with the legend CIBAIANflN or
CeiBAIANHN 2 justify Hierocles against Pliny and Ptolemy, and show
that the vowel of the first syllable was pronounced long. The later
Byzantine form Soublaion3 seems to be adjectival, meaning perhaps
the Siblian fortress (Kaarpov) or the Siblian estate (KTrj/ia)4.
The form of signature adopted by Eulalius at Chalcedon6 suggests
that he was bishop of the church in the Siblian country or the Siblian
fortress or estate; whereas it is hardly explicable if he were simply
bishop of a city Siblia, of the same class as Laodiceia or Attouda.
is a translation of some ancient name. 1887 pp. 394 and 399): cp. Briges and
Pliny calls this hill Sigma. Bruges or Brugoi; Akristis and Akrisias
1 Gok-Gol is a little above Tchandir from root krus according to Fici ; and
Bridge : Besh-Bunar, Five Springs, are the same variation is found in Illyrian
a few miles below Apameia. and Messapian names according to
2 The former appears on the earlier Deecke Rhein. Mus. XXXVI p. 586,
coins, struck under Augustus, the latter XXXVII p. 388. Compare "ifiapa and
on the later. " I/3?jpa Hist. Geogr. p. 328.
s The variation of vowel seems to i Compare ro BlvSmov (Krrjfui) Ch. IX.
be characteristic of Phrygian dialectic The usual accentuation in both is not
variation: the inscriptions show aiviv adjectival.
and aivovv, KuKiv and kukow (see Phrygian 6 EiXa\ior (nioKonos rf/? iv 2i[i\iava>
Inscriptions in Zft.f. vergl. Sprachforsch. iylas tov GeoO e/cxXqctas Act. III.