Of Cilicia. chap. 41.
CIlicia is a Prouince of lesse Asia, and hath that name, as men tell, of Iupi∣ters eldest sonne, as Isidore saith lib. 15. This prouince hath Liciam in the west side, and the Sea Mare siculum in the South, and in the East the toppes of mount Taurus, in the North the Riuer Cignus runneth through the land. The chiefe Citie thereof is Tharsimonia, that is called Tharsis: there was Saint Paule borne. And Coroscos is a towne thereof, and there is much Saffron and best smel∣ling, and passing golde in colour, as Isid. saith lib. 15.
* 1.1Cilicia a country in Asia, partly inclo∣sed with the highest part of ye mountain Taurus, and hardest to passe by, Strabo diuideth Cilicia into two partes, one cal∣led Tracher, that is to say, rough or roc∣kie. The other Campestris, that is to say, plaine. Iosephus writeth, that it was of olde time called Tarsus, or Tarsis, one of the sonnes of Iaphet, the youngest son of Noe, Herodotus sayth, the people were called Cilices of Cilix, the sonne of Agenor king of Phaenicia, where before it was called Hyppateus. Saint Hie∣rom interpreteth Cilicia, a congregation, a lamentation, an assumption, a lamenta∣ble challenge or vomit. The people were by nature inclining to lyeng and stea∣ling, whereof growe this Prouerbe, Cy∣lix non facile verum dicit. The Cili∣cian not lightly sayth true. A Prouerbe applyed to a couetous man, which alway lieth for his perticular aduantage, as now a daies most men doe which liue onelye by stealing.