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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…
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.
Oxford: printed by Henry Hall, 1643
Title page typeset from the transcription.
Modern spelling is a reading aid: the words are the author’s, only the spelling is modernized. Original shows the page as printed, with the transcription marks.
CHAP. II. Of the Lydian Asia, and the seven Metropolitical Cities thereof.
CHAP. II. Of the Lydian Asia, and the seven Metropoliticall Cities thereof.
That heretofore Lydia was called Meonia, and the Lydians termed Meonians: we read in aHerodotus, bDiodorus Siculus, cDionysius Afer, dStrabo, ePliny, fStephanus Byzantinus, and others. And that gMeonia was in the days of Homer named Asia, and the inhabitants thereof by Callinus (another Poet, helder then Archilochus) in the Ionian dialect termed for [Greek or Hebrew], for [Greek or Hebrew] or Asians; we find to have been the opinion of Demetrius Scepsius, iwho was equal in time unto Crates and Aristarchus the Grammarian. Whereunto we may also add that of Euripides, in his Bacchae; [Greek or Hebrew]. together with that which is related by kStephanus Byzantinus, lSuidas, and the great Etymologist; that upon this Tmolus there was a city of Lydia seated, which had the name of Asia: and by Strabo