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2. METROPOLITANUS CAMPUS. 751
also, Eupliorbus was a figure in old religious legend1. The name
therefore goes back to the primitive Phrygian period; and it has
probably been modified in Greek, so as to be significant in that
language.
§ 4. Okoklia. It is quite probable that there may have been a third
ancient town in the Tehul-Ova. Inscribed stones are so numerous
at Tatarli, that one feels inclined to regard it as an ancient site. In
that case it would have to be distinguished from Metropolis. Now
a city Okoklia is known from its coins, but is never mentioned by any
ancient author or in any list of bishoprics. M. Imhoof-Blumer infers
from its coins that it was situated beside Lysias2. The situation
of Tatarli would suit this condition well ; and we might explain the
silence of the ecclesiastical lists about Okoklia, because it was so near
Metropolis that the two might well be classed in a single bishopric,
6 MrjTponoXecos kcu 'O/co/cXeiay.
§ 5. Sibidounda 3. The situation of this city on or near the direct
road from Euphorbium to Synnada is made probable by the boundary
stone, no. 693. The course of the road is determined by the plain
traces of it which remain: cuttings were needed to secure easy
gradients across the mountains that separate the Metropolitan valley
from the Synnada valley, and the explorer can go along the road with
perfect ease and confidence. In 1888 I started from Synnada with
the intention of exploring this route completely. We ascended the
hills by the village Baljik-Hissar, above which is an ancient site on
a rounded hill4. Round the side of this hill, we for the first time
caught the line of the Roman road ; and for several miles we rode
along ' a finely engineered path, the cuttings and curves of which' are
quite clear5. I have seen no such instructive example of Roman
engineering skill; and though I had previously not believed that
a Roman road took this route, I was at once convinced that I was
on the line of a Roman road (in 1891 this was confirmed by the
Termini no. 693 at the side of the road further to S.).
At this stage we were high up on the mountains, and we reached
a point whence we looked down towards the left into a great deep
1 See Stepli. Byz. s. v. 'A&voi and the of the villagers that no inscribed stones,
chapter on the city. hut only wells, remained on this site;
2 Rev. SuisseNumisin. 1895, zurMiinzk. and did not go up to explore it
Kleinas. p. 4. thoroughly. I now see that Sibidonda
3 On the name see pp. 753 f, M4, was probably situated there; andbitterly
169 «., 435 m. regret that I did not satisfy myself
4 Being eager to examine the road, about its character.
I unfortunately accepted the evidence ° Hist. Geogr. p. 170.
also, Eupliorbus was a figure in old religious legend1. The name
therefore goes back to the primitive Phrygian period; and it has
probably been modified in Greek, so as to be significant in that
language.
§ 4. Okoklia. It is quite probable that there may have been a third
ancient town in the Tehul-Ova. Inscribed stones are so numerous
at Tatarli, that one feels inclined to regard it as an ancient site. In
that case it would have to be distinguished from Metropolis. Now
a city Okoklia is known from its coins, but is never mentioned by any
ancient author or in any list of bishoprics. M. Imhoof-Blumer infers
from its coins that it was situated beside Lysias2. The situation
of Tatarli would suit this condition well ; and we might explain the
silence of the ecclesiastical lists about Okoklia, because it was so near
Metropolis that the two might well be classed in a single bishopric,
6 MrjTponoXecos kcu 'O/co/cXeiay.
§ 5. Sibidounda 3. The situation of this city on or near the direct
road from Euphorbium to Synnada is made probable by the boundary
stone, no. 693. The course of the road is determined by the plain
traces of it which remain: cuttings were needed to secure easy
gradients across the mountains that separate the Metropolitan valley
from the Synnada valley, and the explorer can go along the road with
perfect ease and confidence. In 1888 I started from Synnada with
the intention of exploring this route completely. We ascended the
hills by the village Baljik-Hissar, above which is an ancient site on
a rounded hill4. Round the side of this hill, we for the first time
caught the line of the Roman road ; and for several miles we rode
along ' a finely engineered path, the cuttings and curves of which' are
quite clear5. I have seen no such instructive example of Roman
engineering skill; and though I had previously not believed that
a Roman road took this route, I was at once convinced that I was
on the line of a Roman road (in 1891 this was confirmed by the
Termini no. 693 at the side of the road further to S.).
At this stage we were high up on the mountains, and we reached
a point whence we looked down towards the left into a great deep
1 See Stepli. Byz. s. v. 'A&voi and the of the villagers that no inscribed stones,
chapter on the city. hut only wells, remained on this site;
2 Rev. SuisseNumisin. 1895, zurMiinzk. and did not go up to explore it
Kleinas. p. 4. thoroughly. I now see that Sibidonda
3 On the name see pp. 753 f, M4, was probably situated there; andbitterly
169 «., 435 m. regret that I did not satisfy myself
4 Being eager to examine the road, about its character.
I unfortunately accepted the evidence ° Hist. Geogr. p. 170.