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754 XVIII. LINE OF TRADE-ROUTE TO THE EAST.
was exposed to many corruptions, Sebindos, Sibildos, Sinbindos,
Sibindos, and Siknodos (where B has passed into K by corruption).
§ 6. Ltsias. This city is hardly ever alluded to in literature.
Strabo mentions it in an enumeration so vague as to be of little
value, if it is not corrupt1; but his words show that he placed
Lysias, neither in Pisidian Phrygia, nor in Paroreios, nor in the region
of Amorion and Akmonia and Synnada, but in the remaining district
of S. and S.W. Phrygia, lying round Apameia and Laodiceia; and he
names Lysias as an outlying city of this group towards E.2 We
gather from Strabo, then, that Lysias was E. from Apameia, S. from
the line Amoiion-Synnada, W. from Paroreios, and N. from the line
Apollonia-Antioch. Hence I formerly placed it on the road from
Metropolis to Julia-Ipsos, near the point where that road enters
Paroreios.
That situation however was too far E. The order of the Notitiae
connects Lysias with Eukarpia, Augustopolis (W. of Afion-Kara-
Hissar), and Brouzos. Hierocles connects it with Sibidonda and Syn-
nada. Ptolemy mentions it between Konne (N. of Afion-Kara-Hissar)
and the unknown (perhaps corrupt) Kerkopia. Combining these indi-
cations with the evidence of Strabo, we are brought nearer to Metro-
polis and Sibidonda, S. or S.E. from Synnada3, while we are absolutely
debarred from placing it in the Synnada valley4 by the classification
of Strabo.
I am indebted to Kev. H. Thurston, S.J., for the following important
passage, which is almost conclusive: in the Acta 8. Aberciib it is.
stated that in the country of the Pentapolis there was a lofty mountain,
which is defined as ' opposite the city of Lysias.' Now considering
only five miles N. from Synnada); and 5 Bibl. Nat. Paris Cod. 1540 fol. 150V:
Meros might be a transposed name, the text of this unpublished MS. is as
leaving a good order. follows: nepirjyev ovv rrjv \iopav iracrav
1 Quoted and emended Ch. XIV App. depaneimv toiis voo-ovvras kcu 8a.ip.6via e'/c-
III; the emendation does not affect the fidWiav dwo tq>v ivox\ovphav. o-vvefZrj
reasoning of this paragraph. ovv avrov iv pia t£>v r/pepav yevecrdai els
2 His enumeration Peltai, Tabai, Eu- opos v\j/rjX6v, Srrep io-riv avTiKpv rij? no\eas
karpia, Lysias, seems to move eastwards Avcrias' ku\ Si^tjctuvtos avrov re xat t<w
(I regard Tabai as a corruption, for per avrov, nXlvas to. yovara TTpoo-Tjv^aro
Strabo distinctly considers Tabai as a xal avi(3\vcrev Trrjyrj Kadapov vaparos. kcu
city of Pisidia p. 570). rravres ol di\j/covTes i£ avrov eKopeo-8r)crav.
3 There is no possible situation S.W. 6 Se tokos e'£ eKelvov rov natpov Fwviduvia
from Synnada without getting into the eWAqdij. The form Aucriu is used here,
Pentapolis. in one MS. of Hierocles, and perhaps at
* As M. Radet does; he places it at the Council of ad. 347 Tlieagenes epi-
Effe-Keui, six or seven miles N.N.E. from scopus a Lyzia [taken by Le Quien as
Synnada. Lysias, probably rightly).
was exposed to many corruptions, Sebindos, Sibildos, Sinbindos,
Sibindos, and Siknodos (where B has passed into K by corruption).
§ 6. Ltsias. This city is hardly ever alluded to in literature.
Strabo mentions it in an enumeration so vague as to be of little
value, if it is not corrupt1; but his words show that he placed
Lysias, neither in Pisidian Phrygia, nor in Paroreios, nor in the region
of Amorion and Akmonia and Synnada, but in the remaining district
of S. and S.W. Phrygia, lying round Apameia and Laodiceia; and he
names Lysias as an outlying city of this group towards E.2 We
gather from Strabo, then, that Lysias was E. from Apameia, S. from
the line Amoiion-Synnada, W. from Paroreios, and N. from the line
Apollonia-Antioch. Hence I formerly placed it on the road from
Metropolis to Julia-Ipsos, near the point where that road enters
Paroreios.
That situation however was too far E. The order of the Notitiae
connects Lysias with Eukarpia, Augustopolis (W. of Afion-Kara-
Hissar), and Brouzos. Hierocles connects it with Sibidonda and Syn-
nada. Ptolemy mentions it between Konne (N. of Afion-Kara-Hissar)
and the unknown (perhaps corrupt) Kerkopia. Combining these indi-
cations with the evidence of Strabo, we are brought nearer to Metro-
polis and Sibidonda, S. or S.E. from Synnada3, while we are absolutely
debarred from placing it in the Synnada valley4 by the classification
of Strabo.
I am indebted to Kev. H. Thurston, S.J., for the following important
passage, which is almost conclusive: in the Acta 8. Aberciib it is.
stated that in the country of the Pentapolis there was a lofty mountain,
which is defined as ' opposite the city of Lysias.' Now considering
only five miles N. from Synnada); and 5 Bibl. Nat. Paris Cod. 1540 fol. 150V:
Meros might be a transposed name, the text of this unpublished MS. is as
leaving a good order. follows: nepirjyev ovv rrjv \iopav iracrav
1 Quoted and emended Ch. XIV App. depaneimv toiis voo-ovvras kcu 8a.ip.6via e'/c-
III; the emendation does not affect the fidWiav dwo tq>v ivox\ovphav. o-vvefZrj
reasoning of this paragraph. ovv avrov iv pia t£>v r/pepav yevecrdai els
2 His enumeration Peltai, Tabai, Eu- opos v\j/rjX6v, Srrep io-riv avTiKpv rij? no\eas
karpia, Lysias, seems to move eastwards Avcrias' ku\ Si^tjctuvtos avrov re xat t<w
(I regard Tabai as a corruption, for per avrov, nXlvas to. yovara TTpoo-Tjv^aro
Strabo distinctly considers Tabai as a xal avi(3\vcrev Trrjyrj Kadapov vaparos. kcu
city of Pisidia p. 570). rravres ol di\j/covTes i£ avrov eKopeo-8r)crav.
3 There is no possible situation S.W. 6 Se tokos e'£ eKelvov rov natpov Fwviduvia
from Synnada without getting into the eWAqdij. The form Aucriu is used here,
Pentapolis. in one MS. of Hierocles, and perhaps at
* As M. Radet does; he places it at the Council of ad. 347 Tlieagenes epi-
Effe-Keui, six or seven miles N.N.E. from scopus a Lyzia [taken by Le Quien as
Synnada. Lysias, probably rightly).