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Ramsay, William Mitchell
The cities and bishoprics of Phrygia: being an essay of the local history of Phrygia from the earliest time to the Turkish conquest (Band 1,2): West and West-Central Phrygia — Oxford, 1897

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750 XVIII. LINE OF TRADE-ROUTE TO THE EAST.

closer : the ancient city lay in the centre, and must have been supplied
by an aqueduct (Ch. XVI § 2).

It is remarkable that Metropolis was detached from Phrygia, either
by Diocletian or about a.d. 371, and attached to Pisidia. But it is
evident that Metropolis was in close relations with Apollonia and
Antioch; its inscr. and customs are more of the Pisidian than the
Phrygian type (see no. 695); and the direct horse-road and foot-road
to the East connected it closely with Antioch (pp. 579 ff). The later
classification sprang naturally from its historical development.

The fact that Metropolis, which is so near the N.E. end of the
valley, was in Pisidia under the Byzantine classification, proves that
a city at Tatarli (if one existed* there) must certainly have been in
Pisidia, and that a city at Ginik was probably in Pisidia (though
possibly it might be attached to Phrygia Salutaris). This has an
important bearing on topographical reasoning.

§ 3. Euphorbitjm is mentioned only by Pliny, who names the Euphor-
beni in the conventus of Apameia, and on the Peutinger Table, where
it is placed on the road from Apameia to Synnada, XXVIII M. P. from
each. Now the course of that road is quite certain: it coincided with
the Eastern Highway as far as Metropolis. There it diverged, and
went almost due north past the village of Ginik, across the mountains
to Synnada. Near Ginik there is, on the edge of the plain, and near
the line of the road, an ancient site, now deserted: this site is about
XXVIII M. P. from Apameia, and XVIII from Synnada. With this
slight correction, the Table may be quoted as evidence that Euphorbium
was situated here.

If we have rightly placed these names, Metropolis must be taken as
the trading city of later Greek and Roman times, while Euphorbium
was the older foundation, retaining more of the purely native character.
Hence the latter struck no coins, while in Metropolis the wealth and
civilization of the valley were concentrated.

The hero Euphorbus played some considerable part in Phrygian
legend. In Diogenes Laertius I 25 and Diodoros X 6, 4, there is quoted
a passage of Callimachus relating to him 2. Euphorbus discovered the
science of rectilinear geometry, and Thales advanced it3. At Aizanoi,

1 See § 4. <rav I iravres. Rev. M. Gr. 1895 p. 272.

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