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664 XIV- AKMONIA AND THE AKMONIAN DIOCESE.
APPENDIX III.
(l) PTOLEMY V 2, 27 AND {%) STEABO p. 576 (XII 8, 13).
I. This important passage should be read brjiiot irapa p.ev ryv Avk'uxv
<$>vXaKr)vcri.0L koX ©eixicrdvioi, irapa be ttji> BtOvviav MoKKabrivoC km
Ki8i>7j<70"ei?2 (r) KrSSvjcreis), yep' oiis UeX.Trivol (?) 2-7riAr??i<oi) elra Mo£tai>ot
etra Avitaoves, v<p' ovs ^lepanoXirai. I have transposed <E>uAa/<?;i>cn.oi and
Avi«ioves. Without the transposition the description is hopelessly bad,
while with it the description is good and instructive in every detail. The
false reading was suggested by the similarity of AvnCav and Avudoves,
which led to their being placed together,
This important passage is to be understood thus : ' In Phrygia along
the Lycian frontier (going S. to N.) are the demoi Phylacenses (see p. 255)
and the Themisonioi (p. 152); and along the Bithynian frontier (going
W. to E.) the Mokkadenoi and the Kidyesseis, south of whom (going W.
to E.) are the Peltenoi and the Moxeanoi and the Lykaones, south of
whom are the Hierapolitai (Hieropolitai). See p. 599.
I should have thought that no geographer would have defended the
text of Ptolemy as it stands; but M. Ptadet accepts it, and founds on it
an argument to place the Lykaones a few miles further south than I have
placed them. Now, even if this were right, the position which he assigns
leaves Ptolemy's description an absurdly bad one. The situation of the
Lykaones is determined by the two facts, that they were in the convening
of Synnada and in the province of Salutaris. Hence, even though
M. Radet fixes them in the extreme S.W. corner of Salutaris on the
bounds of the Apamean convenius3, yet no one who looks at a map of
respectable size or knows the hundred miles of mountains and of road
between Lycia and the extreme corner of Salutaris can believe that
Ptolemy retains the slightest claim to geographical authority, if he
describes a people situated there as being ' beside the Themisonioi on the
frontier of Lycia/ The error, once for all, is so gross, that a few miles
more or less does not appreciably increase or diminish it.
Further, the position which Ptolemy assigns to the Phylakensioi N.
of the Hierapolitai and E. of the Moxeanoi is equally absurd. The
position of the Phylakensioi is assured beyond question in the extreme
1 MoKaSrjvot BCH 1895 p. 557. s Other reasons, stated on pp. 694 f,
2 KuSicrcraj MSS. The coins show the show that his position is impossible,
true form § 8.
APPENDIX III.
(l) PTOLEMY V 2, 27 AND {%) STEABO p. 576 (XII 8, 13).
I. This important passage should be read brjiiot irapa p.ev ryv Avk'uxv
<$>vXaKr)vcri.0L koX ©eixicrdvioi, irapa be ttji> BtOvviav MoKKabrivoC km
Ki8i>7j<70"ei?2 (r) KrSSvjcreis), yep' oiis UeX.Trivol (?) 2-7riAr??i<oi) elra Mo£tai>ot
etra Avitaoves, v<p' ovs ^lepanoXirai. I have transposed <E>uAa/<?;i>cn.oi and
Avi«ioves. Without the transposition the description is hopelessly bad,
while with it the description is good and instructive in every detail. The
false reading was suggested by the similarity of AvnCav and Avudoves,
which led to their being placed together,
This important passage is to be understood thus : ' In Phrygia along
the Lycian frontier (going S. to N.) are the demoi Phylacenses (see p. 255)
and the Themisonioi (p. 152); and along the Bithynian frontier (going
W. to E.) the Mokkadenoi and the Kidyesseis, south of whom (going W.
to E.) are the Peltenoi and the Moxeanoi and the Lykaones, south of
whom are the Hierapolitai (Hieropolitai). See p. 599.
I should have thought that no geographer would have defended the
text of Ptolemy as it stands; but M. Ptadet accepts it, and founds on it
an argument to place the Lykaones a few miles further south than I have
placed them. Now, even if this were right, the position which he assigns
leaves Ptolemy's description an absurdly bad one. The situation of the
Lykaones is determined by the two facts, that they were in the convening
of Synnada and in the province of Salutaris. Hence, even though
M. Radet fixes them in the extreme S.W. corner of Salutaris on the
bounds of the Apamean convenius3, yet no one who looks at a map of
respectable size or knows the hundred miles of mountains and of road
between Lycia and the extreme corner of Salutaris can believe that
Ptolemy retains the slightest claim to geographical authority, if he
describes a people situated there as being ' beside the Themisonioi on the
frontier of Lycia/ The error, once for all, is so gross, that a few miles
more or less does not appreciably increase or diminish it.
Further, the position which Ptolemy assigns to the Phylakensioi N.
of the Hierapolitai and E. of the Moxeanoi is equally absurd. The
position of the Phylakensioi is assured beyond question in the extreme
1 MoKaSrjvot BCH 1895 p. 557. s Other reasons, stated on pp. 694 f,
2 KuSicrcraj MSS. The coins show the show that his position is impossible,
true form § 8.