CHAP. III.
¶ Cappadocia.
IN Cappadocia, there is a city well within the land, called Archelais, scituate vpon the riuer Halys: which Claudius Caesar the Emperor erected as a colony, and peopled it with Romane souldiers. There is besides a towne which the riuer Sarus runneth vnder: also Neo-caesarea, [unspec H] which Lycus passeth by: and Amasia with the riuer Iris running vnder it, within the countrey Gazacena. Moreouer, in the quarter called Colopena, there stand Sebastia & Sebastopolis, lit∣tle towns indeed, howbeit comparable with those abouesaid. In the other part of Cappadocia there is the city Melita, built by queene Semiramis, not far from Euphrates: also, Dio-Caesarea, Tyana, Castabala, Magnopolis, Zela, and vnder the mountaine Argaeus, Mazaca, which now is named Caesarea. That part of Cappadocia which lieth before Armenia the greater, is called Melitene: that which bordereth vpon Comagene, Cataonia: vpon Phrygia, Garsauritis: vpon Sargaurasana, Cammaneum; and finally vpon Galatia, Morimene. And there the riuer Cappa∣dox separateth the one from the other. Of this riuer the Cappadocians took name, whereas be∣foretime they were called Leucosyri: as for the lesse Armenia, the riuer Lycus diuideth it from [unspec I] Neo-Caesarea beforesaid. Within the country there runneth a•…•…o the great riuer Ceraunus. But on the coast side, when you are past the city Amysum, you meet with the town Lycastum; and the riuer Chadisia; and once past them, you enter into the countrey Themiscyra. In this quarter also you may see the riuer Iris, bringing down with it another riuer Lycus that runneth into it. And in the midland parts there is the city Ziela, ennobled for the ouerthrow of Tria∣rius, whom C. Caesar defeated with his whole army. But in the coast againe you shall encounter the riuer Thermodon, which issueth from before a castle named Phanaroea, and passeth beside the foot of the mountaine Amazonius. In which place there stood somtime a towne of that name, and other fiue, namely, Phamizonium, Themiscyra, Sotira, Amasia, Comana, at this pre∣sent called Manteium.