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450 XI. A PAM EI A.
suffered just in proportion as Northern Phrygia and Galatia flourished
under the Constantinopolitan regimex; and Aurokra could not main-
tain its importance.
(3) Samsado-Kome should probably be included among the villages.
Samsun-Dagh is the name given to a part of Djebel-Sultan. Now
Samsun has the look of an ancient name2. In the Acta SS. Tryphonis
et Respicii, the saints are said to belong to Samsado-Kome in the
territory of a city named Apameia : in some extant forms of the Acta
this Apameia is conceived as being the Bithynian city ; the trial
takes place at Nikaia, and Caesareia is the scene of one incident.
But in the old Latin version given by Buinart, no mention is made
either of Nikaia3 or of Caesareia, and the saints are said to be
Phrygians (genere Phrygios). Now it is common to find in the later
versions of Acta that an obscure city is mistaken for a more famous
city of the same name4. I conjecture that this has happened in the
Acta Tryphonis; and that Samsado-Kome5 was a village of the
Apamean territory. In that case it must be sought on the skirts
of Samsun-Dagh. The village was near a lake and a high hill; and
geese were tended in the neighbourhood. These particulars suggest
that Samsado-Kome was beside the fountains and marshy lake of
Besh-Bunar, where it is represented on the maps in vols. I and II.
The martyrs were arrested by Fronto, eirenarch of the city of
Apameia (see no. 300).
1 See my Hist. Geogr. p. 74. and better; and there Nikomedeia is not
2 Compare Samsun, the ancient Ami- mentioned, while Herakleia is called
sos. In the following notes on the Acta ' a city of Cappadocia.' It is therefore
Tryphonis, I am much indebted to com- clear that Herakleopolis-Sebastopolis,
munications from Rev. H. Thurston in a city adjoining the territory of Tchorum
iS9oandl89l. (Hist. Geogr. p. 326), is meant. This
3 The martyrs are conducted in civi- Herakleia was in later forms of the
tatem Meetem for trial. Acta understood as Herakleia Ponti,
1 Compare Acta S. Theodori Strate- and Nikomedeia was introduced. Finally
latae, where the scene lies at Eukhaita, Bishop Macarius in his Travels (transl.
and yet Herakleia and Nikomedeia are Belfour II p. 424) speaks of Ponto-
introduced as cities reasonably near Herakleia as the place of Theodore's
Eukhaita. M. Doublet quoted the Acta martyrdom.
in support of his contention that Euk- 5 Vicus Sansorus in Ruinart, who
haita was situated at Safaramboli (BCH quotes Campsade as the form in the
1889 pp. 297 ff). In Hist. Geogr pp. 318- Acta publ. by Surius [Sansadocume in
323I argued that Eukhaita corresponded the Bollandist Catalogue of the Hagio-
to Tchorum, 160 miles further SE., and graphical MSS. in the Bibl. Nat. Paris
that these Acta were late and valueless. I pp. 284 ft': Kamsadon in Vincent of
Recently Mr. Conybeare has published Beauvais, which I quote from Mr. Thurs-
Monuments of Early Christ, pp. 220 ff ton's letter],
an Armenian version of the Acta, earlier
suffered just in proportion as Northern Phrygia and Galatia flourished
under the Constantinopolitan regimex; and Aurokra could not main-
tain its importance.
(3) Samsado-Kome should probably be included among the villages.
Samsun-Dagh is the name given to a part of Djebel-Sultan. Now
Samsun has the look of an ancient name2. In the Acta SS. Tryphonis
et Respicii, the saints are said to belong to Samsado-Kome in the
territory of a city named Apameia : in some extant forms of the Acta
this Apameia is conceived as being the Bithynian city ; the trial
takes place at Nikaia, and Caesareia is the scene of one incident.
But in the old Latin version given by Buinart, no mention is made
either of Nikaia3 or of Caesareia, and the saints are said to be
Phrygians (genere Phrygios). Now it is common to find in the later
versions of Acta that an obscure city is mistaken for a more famous
city of the same name4. I conjecture that this has happened in the
Acta Tryphonis; and that Samsado-Kome5 was a village of the
Apamean territory. In that case it must be sought on the skirts
of Samsun-Dagh. The village was near a lake and a high hill; and
geese were tended in the neighbourhood. These particulars suggest
that Samsado-Kome was beside the fountains and marshy lake of
Besh-Bunar, where it is represented on the maps in vols. I and II.
The martyrs were arrested by Fronto, eirenarch of the city of
Apameia (see no. 300).
1 See my Hist. Geogr. p. 74. and better; and there Nikomedeia is not
2 Compare Samsun, the ancient Ami- mentioned, while Herakleia is called
sos. In the following notes on the Acta ' a city of Cappadocia.' It is therefore
Tryphonis, I am much indebted to com- clear that Herakleopolis-Sebastopolis,
munications from Rev. H. Thurston in a city adjoining the territory of Tchorum
iS9oandl89l. (Hist. Geogr. p. 326), is meant. This
3 The martyrs are conducted in civi- Herakleia was in later forms of the
tatem Meetem for trial. Acta understood as Herakleia Ponti,
1 Compare Acta S. Theodori Strate- and Nikomedeia was introduced. Finally
latae, where the scene lies at Eukhaita, Bishop Macarius in his Travels (transl.
and yet Herakleia and Nikomedeia are Belfour II p. 424) speaks of Ponto-
introduced as cities reasonably near Herakleia as the place of Theodore's
Eukhaita. M. Doublet quoted the Acta martyrdom.
in support of his contention that Euk- 5 Vicus Sansorus in Ruinart, who
haita was situated at Safaramboli (BCH quotes Campsade as the form in the
1889 pp. 297 ff). In Hist. Geogr pp. 318- Acta publ. by Surius [Sansadocume in
323I argued that Eukhaita corresponded the Bollandist Catalogue of the Hagio-
to Tchorum, 160 miles further SE., and graphical MSS. in the Bibl. Nat. Paris
that these Acta were late and valueless. I pp. 284 ft': Kamsadon in Vincent of
Recently Mr. Conybeare has published Beauvais, which I quote from Mr. Thurs-
Monuments of Early Christ, pp. 220 ff ton's letter],
an Armenian version of the Acta, earlier