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3. ERIZA. 255
which proves that Siza is merety a fault. It is omitted in the Nova
Tactica and in Notitiae X, XIII.
§ 4. Phylakaion is mentioned by the Anonymus Rctvennas (in
the corrupt form Filaction), from which we may infer that it was
situated on a Roman road. Ptolemy V 2, 26 places Phylakeion or
Pylakaion a little to the southwest of Themisonion. Neither of
these witnesses can be followed implicitly; but, so far as they can be
trusted, we may conclude from then combined evidence that this town
was situated on the Roman road Laodiceia-Themisonion-Perga, a road
which is vouched for by the Peutinger Table, by milestones, and by
history. The omission of Phylakaion on the road in the Table is
easily accounted for. The name Laudicium Pylicum at the begiuning
of the road seems to spring from a mixture of the two names Laodicea
enl Avk(o and Pylacium. The road appears in a very defective form
in the Table; Cibyra, Isinda, Termessos are omitted, while Cormasa
(Cormassa) has been transferred hither from the adjoining road
Apameia-Perga, which has dropped out entirely. We conclude then
that in the original of the Table the road was given Laodicea-Themi-
sonion-Pylacium-Cibyra-Isinda-Termessos-Perga1.
Another passage in Ptolemy (V 2, 27), which in its present form
makes the extraordinary blunder of putting the tribe Lykaones on the
frontier of Lycia, can be by a very slight change emended so as to
give clear evidence as to the position of Phylakaion2. In this passage
Ptolemy is using a Latin source, as is obvious from the term <PvXa-
KrjvaioL, which is a false form got by grecizing the Latin Phylacenses.
His source is a map, which gave him the general positions of these
peoples ; and that map is doubtless Agrippa's, the ultimate source also
of the Peutinger Table and the Ravenna Geographer. In his enumera-
tion Ptolemy starts from the south (i.e. the Lycian frontier), goes
northward, and then turns eastward along the northern (i.e. Bithynian)
frontier. The Phylacenses then were south of Themisonion on the
Lycian frontier, and therefore the road on which it lay was that from
Themisonion to Cibyra and Perga.
We turn now to the Byzantine lists. Phylakaion does not occur in
any of them. But Hierocles mentions at the end of his Carian list
Xapta naTpijxovia Kifivpa KoKT7]/id\u<ai. The Khoria Patrimonia
1 The distances are (with my approxi- KaSorjvoi kcu KiSuijtrcrei?, ifi ovs TleKrrjvoi,
mate estimates in Arabic numerals) Lao- dra Mo£(nvoi, eira Avkoovcs, i(f>' ovs 'Upa-
diceia xxxiii Themisonion 30 Cibyra 50 jroXTrm. The similar beginning in AvKiav
Isinda 41 Perga. and Avk&ovcs attracted them to each
2 Read wapa ptv rfjv AvK.lav $v\aK.i,vcnoi other, and thus caused the transposition
Kal Qepiaavioi, napa 8e t!jv BtSvviav Max. of AvKaoves and ivXaK^vtnot.
which proves that Siza is merety a fault. It is omitted in the Nova
Tactica and in Notitiae X, XIII.
§ 4. Phylakaion is mentioned by the Anonymus Rctvennas (in
the corrupt form Filaction), from which we may infer that it was
situated on a Roman road. Ptolemy V 2, 26 places Phylakeion or
Pylakaion a little to the southwest of Themisonion. Neither of
these witnesses can be followed implicitly; but, so far as they can be
trusted, we may conclude from then combined evidence that this town
was situated on the Roman road Laodiceia-Themisonion-Perga, a road
which is vouched for by the Peutinger Table, by milestones, and by
history. The omission of Phylakaion on the road in the Table is
easily accounted for. The name Laudicium Pylicum at the begiuning
of the road seems to spring from a mixture of the two names Laodicea
enl Avk(o and Pylacium. The road appears in a very defective form
in the Table; Cibyra, Isinda, Termessos are omitted, while Cormasa
(Cormassa) has been transferred hither from the adjoining road
Apameia-Perga, which has dropped out entirely. We conclude then
that in the original of the Table the road was given Laodicea-Themi-
sonion-Pylacium-Cibyra-Isinda-Termessos-Perga1.
Another passage in Ptolemy (V 2, 27), which in its present form
makes the extraordinary blunder of putting the tribe Lykaones on the
frontier of Lycia, can be by a very slight change emended so as to
give clear evidence as to the position of Phylakaion2. In this passage
Ptolemy is using a Latin source, as is obvious from the term <PvXa-
KrjvaioL, which is a false form got by grecizing the Latin Phylacenses.
His source is a map, which gave him the general positions of these
peoples ; and that map is doubtless Agrippa's, the ultimate source also
of the Peutinger Table and the Ravenna Geographer. In his enumera-
tion Ptolemy starts from the south (i.e. the Lycian frontier), goes
northward, and then turns eastward along the northern (i.e. Bithynian)
frontier. The Phylacenses then were south of Themisonion on the
Lycian frontier, and therefore the road on which it lay was that from
Themisonion to Cibyra and Perga.
We turn now to the Byzantine lists. Phylakaion does not occur in
any of them. But Hierocles mentions at the end of his Carian list
Xapta naTpijxovia Kifivpa KoKT7]/id\u<ai. The Khoria Patrimonia
1 The distances are (with my approxi- KaSorjvoi kcu KiSuijtrcrei?, ifi ovs TleKrrjvoi,
mate estimates in Arabic numerals) Lao- dra Mo£(nvoi, eira Avkoovcs, i(f>' ovs 'Upa-
diceia xxxiii Themisonion 30 Cibyra 50 jroXTrm. The similar beginning in AvKiav
Isinda 41 Perga. and Avk&ovcs attracted them to each
2 Read wapa ptv rfjv AvK.lav $v\aK.i,vcnoi other, and thus caused the transposition
Kal Qepiaavioi, napa 8e t!jv BtSvviav Max. of AvKaoves and ivXaK^vtnot.