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…

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^m, that betwixt ⟨p. 9⟩the two Lydian mountains of Tmolus and Messogis lay the great Caystrian plain, which Homer calleth the Asian field, in that verse of the second of the Iliads; [Greek or Hebrew]. to which Virgil also hath relation in that of the first of his Georgics; —& quae Asia circum Dulcibus in stagnis rimantur prata Caystri: and in the seventh of the Aeneids; —sonat amnis, & Asia longè Pulsa palus. Whereunto the testimony of Eunapius may be referred likewise, who speaking of that admirably learned Gentlewoman Sosipatra, saith that