That same year, cwherein Caesar obtained first the surname of Augustus, himself being then the seventh, and Marcus Agrippa (who married his sisters daughter) the third time Consul; was this political division ⟨p. 14⟩of the Provinces ordered by him: far differing from that Geographical partition of countries delivered by his nephew Agrippa. whom dSolinus following in his Geography, beginneth Asia from Telmessus of Lycia and the Carpathian bay: and boundeth it on the East with Lycia (or Lycaonia, as ePliny hath it) and Phrygia; on the West with the Aegean, on the South with the Egyptian sea, and on the North with Paphlagonia. which being made the limit of Agrippa's Asia on that side (and not Pontus or Propontis) doth necessarily show that Pontus and Bithynia we•e included therein. whereas it plainly appeareth by Strabo and Dio, that in Augustus his platform these were a province by themselves. fthey being made by him a Praetorian province, and Asia a Consular; containing in it (as Strabo witnesseth) all that Asia which was on this side the river Halys and the mountain Taurus, excepting Galatia, the countries that had been lately under the government of King Amyntas, together with the province of Bithynia and that of Pontus and Propontis adjoined thereunto. All which being deducted; those countries will remain, which by gOnuphrius are assigned unto Augustus his Proconsular Asia: to wit, Lydia, Jonia, Caria, Mysia, Phrygia, and the Proconsular Hellespont. hthe two Roman colonies whereof, Troas and Parium, are by Paulus the Lawyer particularly noted to have been seated in the province Asia.
That same yeare, cwherein Caesar obtained first the surname of Augustus, himselfe being then the seventh, and Marcus Agrippa (who married his sisters daughter) the third time Consul; was this politicall division ⟨p. 14⟩of the Provinces ordered by him: farr diffe•ing from that Geographicall partition of countries delivered by his nephew Agrippa. whom dSolinus following in his Geography, beginneth Asia from Telmessus of Lycia and the Carpathian bay: and boundeth it on the East with Lycia (or Lycaonia, as ePliny hath it) and Phrygia; on the West with the Aegean, on the South with the Aegyptian sea, and on the North with Paphlagonia. which being made the limit of Agrippa's Asia on that side (and not Pontus or Propontis) doth necessarily shew that Pontus and Bit•ynia we•e included therein. whereas it plainly appeareth by Strabo and Dio, that in Augustus his platforme these were a province by themselves. fthey being made by him a Praetorian province, and Asia a Consular; containing in it (as Strabo witnesseth) all that Asia which was on this side the river Halys and the mountaine Taurus, excepting Galatia, the countryes that had been lately under the government of King Amyntas, together with the province of Bithynia and that of Pontus and Propontis adjoyned thereunto. All which being deducted; those countries will remaine, which by gOnuphrius are assigned unto Augustus his Proconsular Asia: to wit, Lydia, Ionia, Caria, Mysia, Phrygia, and the Proconsular Hellespont. hthe two Roman colonyes whereof, Troas and Parium, are by Paulus the Lawyer particularly noted to have beene seated in the province Asia.
- cDio, lib. 53.
- dSolin. Polyhist. cap. •3.
- ePlin. lib. 5. cap. 27.
- fStrabo, lib. 17. pag. 8•0.
- gOnuphr. Panum. Commentar. Reipubl. Roman. lib. 3. pag. 378. (edit. Francof•rt. an. 1597.)
- hIn provincià Asià duae sunt juris I•alic•, Tria• & Parium. l. In L•si •an. D. de Censib.
