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268 VIII. VALLEY OF THE KAZANES AND INDOS.
concluded peace with Termessos, made arrangements with the Pam-
phylian cities who had also sent ambassadors; and at last began in
earnest his march towards Galatia. Beaching the river Taurus (which
flows from Isinda to Kestel-Gol) on the first day, and Xyline Come
(probably near Pogla) on the next, he needed two days to reach
Kormasa, crossing a high pass.
The situation of Lagbe is proved by two inscriptions. The first was
found by Spratt and Forbes (Lycia I 250) at Manai, and has since
been recopied and published in Benndorf Lykia II no. 198. The
copies are bad, but the text seems to be 8[fj]fios Aay(3ia>i> ........
Aayfi-qvfi {evyji)v1. The second was found about two miles N.E. from
Manai, on the rocks underneath the actual site of a strong ancient
cityz, a mile from Ali Fachreddin Yaila.
The only known coin of Lagbe has the legend AATBHN^N, but an
inscription uses the ethnic Aayfievs. The beta is the grecized form,
apparently, of a Pisidian sound approximating to W, which could not
be exactly represented in Greek. In the Byzantine lists 0 Aayivcuv is
evidently the bishop of this town; here the ethnic Aayorjvos or
Aaywrjvos has given rise to a lengthened form, viz., Ady-qva 3. Livy
uses Lagon, or perhaps Lagoen. The bishopric Aayivmv was in
Pamphylia; but it is clear that the city Lagbe was in Asia4 in the
third century. We must suppose that, when Cibyra was annexed to
Caria by Diocletian, this outlying district, which could not con-
veniently be united with Caria, was like the Cyllanian estates (Ch. IX
§ a) incorporated in Pamphylia.
The large imperial estate, whose contractor occupied such an im-
portant position at Lagbe (inscr. 191), was doubtless the territory
along the shores of lake Karalitis about Manai.
§ 12. The Turkish Conquest of this district, and of Pisidia in
general, is discussed in Chapter IX § 9.
1 Neither 8ea nor m^p'suits the traces von Luschan) did not ascend to the site
of letters in the gap. The name of the of the city.
goddess was probably used. 3 Compare Briana in Hierocles for
2 Benndorf describes very fully the Bria (6 Tipiavav) ; 6 KoXcovijf, the bishop
rock-reliefs, and gives some of the in- of Koloe.
scriptions; but apparently he (or rather 4 See commentary on 192, p. 273.
concluded peace with Termessos, made arrangements with the Pam-
phylian cities who had also sent ambassadors; and at last began in
earnest his march towards Galatia. Beaching the river Taurus (which
flows from Isinda to Kestel-Gol) on the first day, and Xyline Come
(probably near Pogla) on the next, he needed two days to reach
Kormasa, crossing a high pass.
The situation of Lagbe is proved by two inscriptions. The first was
found by Spratt and Forbes (Lycia I 250) at Manai, and has since
been recopied and published in Benndorf Lykia II no. 198. The
copies are bad, but the text seems to be 8[fj]fios Aay(3ia>i> ........
Aayfi-qvfi {evyji)v1. The second was found about two miles N.E. from
Manai, on the rocks underneath the actual site of a strong ancient
cityz, a mile from Ali Fachreddin Yaila.
The only known coin of Lagbe has the legend AATBHN^N, but an
inscription uses the ethnic Aayfievs. The beta is the grecized form,
apparently, of a Pisidian sound approximating to W, which could not
be exactly represented in Greek. In the Byzantine lists 0 Aayivcuv is
evidently the bishop of this town; here the ethnic Aayorjvos or
Aaywrjvos has given rise to a lengthened form, viz., Ady-qva 3. Livy
uses Lagon, or perhaps Lagoen. The bishopric Aayivmv was in
Pamphylia; but it is clear that the city Lagbe was in Asia4 in the
third century. We must suppose that, when Cibyra was annexed to
Caria by Diocletian, this outlying district, which could not con-
veniently be united with Caria, was like the Cyllanian estates (Ch. IX
§ a) incorporated in Pamphylia.
The large imperial estate, whose contractor occupied such an im-
portant position at Lagbe (inscr. 191), was doubtless the territory
along the shores of lake Karalitis about Manai.
§ 12. The Turkish Conquest of this district, and of Pisidia in
general, is discussed in Chapter IX § 9.
1 Neither 8ea nor m^p'suits the traces von Luschan) did not ascend to the site
of letters in the gap. The name of the of the city.
goddess was probably used. 3 Compare Briana in Hierocles for
2 Benndorf describes very fully the Bria (6 Tipiavav) ; 6 KoXcovijf, the bishop
rock-reliefs, and gives some of the in- of Koloe.
scriptions; but apparently he (or rather 4 See commentary on 192, p. 273.