A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…

Name: A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…
Author: James Ussher

A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Usher.A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia (which is the Asia so often mentioned in the New Testament), the Proconsular Asia, and the Asian Diocese by James Ussher.

James Ussher 1581–1656Oxford: printed by Henry Hall, 1643

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Chapter 1: Of the Asia which by the Romans was first properly so called; and the several members…Chapter 1: Of the Asia which by the Romanes was first properly so called; and the severall members…

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This is by Cicero^b distinguished into four members: Phrygia, Mysia, Caria, and Lydia. The first whereof is by Dionysius Afer, ^cStrabo, ^dPtolemy and others, divided into the greater and the lesser Phrygia. Within the greater those two Phrygia's were comprehended, which in after ages, were known by the names of Pacatiana and Salutaris: the former of which (mentioned in the subscription, added by the Greek Church unto the former Epistle of S. Paul unto Timothy) being the more Southern part of the greater Phrygia, is thought to have received that appellation from Pacatianus: who in the days of Constantine the great, bore the office of the ^ePrefect of the Praetorium of the East, having not long before been at the same time ^fboth Consul and Prefect of the City of Constantinople; and (as it may seem) diverse years before that, began his preferments here in the West, with the ^*Lieutenantship of our Britain.

This is by Cicero^b distinguished into foure members: Phrygia, Mysia, Caria, and Lydia. The first whereof is by Dionysius Afer, ^cStrabo, ^dPtolemy and others, divided into the greater and the lesser Phrygia. Within the greater those two Phrygia's were comprehended, which in after ages, were knowne by the names of Pacatiana and Salutaris: the former of which (mentioned in the subscription, added by the Greeke Church unto the former Epistle of S. Paul unto Timothy) being the more Southerne part of the greater Phrygia, is thought to have received that appellation from Pacatianus: who in the dayes of Constantine the great, bore the office of the

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A geographical and historical disquisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…A geographicall and historicall disqvisition touching the Asia properly so called, the Lydian Asia…

CHAP. II. Of the Lydian Asia, and the seven Metropolitical Cities thereof.

CHAP. II. Of the Lydian Asia, and the seven Metropoliticall Cities thereof.

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CHAP. II. Of the Lydian Asia, and the seven Metropolitical Cities thereof.

CHAP. II. Of the Lydian Asia, and the seven Metropoliticall Cities thereof.

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