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App. III. PTOLEMY AND STRABO. 665
S.W. of Phrygia closer than any other demos to Lyeia (for Cibyra is
ranked among the poleis, not among the demoi).
Now, whpn we observe that the Phylakensioi and the Themisonioi lie
side by side in the long valley, Kara-Eyuk-Ova, which is the extreme
part of Phrygia towards Lycia, we feel compelled to say that, if Ptolemy
did not mention these two peoples side by side on the Lycian frontier of
Phrygia, he shows a geographical incapacity far beyond anything else in
the way of looseness that he has been guilty of in his account of Asia
Minor. Further we see that the transposition of the Lykaones beside
Lykia was rendered easy for an ignorant transcriber; and that, if we
make this alteration in the text, we have good geography and good sense
in place of absurdity and unparalleled blundering1. There are, in our
present state of knowledge, only two alternatives open : one, to leave the
passage of Ptolemy on one side as either absurdly wrong or hopelessly
corrupt: the other, to accept the transposition proposed as being probably
correct, and use the text reconstituted as a subsidiary, but not a decisive,
argument in questions of topography.
M. Radet seems to regard the Hierapolitai as the people of Hierapolis
on the Lycos; but they must certainty be taken as the inhabitants of
Sandykli-Ova2.
a. Strabo p. $j6 gives a list of the districts and cities of Phrygia Magna,
using that term in the early sense, as distinguished from Phrygia Helles-
pontiaca and Phrygia Epiktetos. He divides his list according to districts:
(1) Paroreios Phrygia: (a) Phrygia irpbs TliaibCq (including Pisidian
Antioch, Limnai, and much of Ptolemy's <&pvyia Ut<nb[a Ch. IX App. II):
(3) ra irepl 'Ap-opiov ko.1 ['A(c]|oi[o]j>€iaj> kol "Svvvaba (i.e. central Phrygia in
our conception, but in Strabo's conception northern Phrygia, for he
divides what we reckon northern Phrygia between Mysia and Epiktetos):
(4) Apameia-Kibotos and Laodiceia and the surrounding cities and
towns Aphrodisias, Colossai, Themisonion, Sanaos, Metropolis, Apollonia,
and at a greater distance Peltai, Tabai, Eukarpia, Lysias (i. e. the whole
south-western part of Phrygia, taking it in the widest sense). This
division is clear and well carried put, if we make the single correction
'Akixovclciv for Evjieveiav : without the change the division loses its sharp
precision, for Eumeneia and Peltai must go together in one group.
' Ptolemy is a little hazy about the a good geographical list.
Peltenoi, whom he thinks about as tqo 2 See CB LXXXV, where this
far N.; but otherwise the passage is pointed out.
S.W. of Phrygia closer than any other demos to Lyeia (for Cibyra is
ranked among the poleis, not among the demoi).
Now, whpn we observe that the Phylakensioi and the Themisonioi lie
side by side in the long valley, Kara-Eyuk-Ova, which is the extreme
part of Phrygia towards Lycia, we feel compelled to say that, if Ptolemy
did not mention these two peoples side by side on the Lycian frontier of
Phrygia, he shows a geographical incapacity far beyond anything else in
the way of looseness that he has been guilty of in his account of Asia
Minor. Further we see that the transposition of the Lykaones beside
Lykia was rendered easy for an ignorant transcriber; and that, if we
make this alteration in the text, we have good geography and good sense
in place of absurdity and unparalleled blundering1. There are, in our
present state of knowledge, only two alternatives open : one, to leave the
passage of Ptolemy on one side as either absurdly wrong or hopelessly
corrupt: the other, to accept the transposition proposed as being probably
correct, and use the text reconstituted as a subsidiary, but not a decisive,
argument in questions of topography.
M. Radet seems to regard the Hierapolitai as the people of Hierapolis
on the Lycos; but they must certainty be taken as the inhabitants of
Sandykli-Ova2.
a. Strabo p. $j6 gives a list of the districts and cities of Phrygia Magna,
using that term in the early sense, as distinguished from Phrygia Helles-
pontiaca and Phrygia Epiktetos. He divides his list according to districts:
(1) Paroreios Phrygia: (a) Phrygia irpbs TliaibCq (including Pisidian
Antioch, Limnai, and much of Ptolemy's <&pvyia Ut<nb[a Ch. IX App. II):
(3) ra irepl 'Ap-opiov ko.1 ['A(c]|oi[o]j>€iaj> kol "Svvvaba (i.e. central Phrygia in
our conception, but in Strabo's conception northern Phrygia, for he
divides what we reckon northern Phrygia between Mysia and Epiktetos):
(4) Apameia-Kibotos and Laodiceia and the surrounding cities and
towns Aphrodisias, Colossai, Themisonion, Sanaos, Metropolis, Apollonia,
and at a greater distance Peltai, Tabai, Eukarpia, Lysias (i. e. the whole
south-western part of Phrygia, taking it in the widest sense). This
division is clear and well carried put, if we make the single correction
'Akixovclciv for Evjieveiav : without the change the division loses its sharp
precision, for Eumeneia and Peltai must go together in one group.
' Ptolemy is a little hazy about the a good geographical list.
Peltenoi, whom he thinks about as tqo 2 See CB LXXXV, where this
far N.; but otherwise the passage is pointed out.