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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.
Whether rfrom this Asias the continent of Asia did take his denomination, or from the forementioned city of Lydia, or from Asia the wife of Prometheus, or from some other original; Stephanus Byzantinus leaveth us to enquire. But beside that the first vowel in Homers Asia is long, and in the greater Asia (which sStephanus acknowledgeth him to have been ignorant of) is of a *short quantity: no man can doubt, but the derivation of the name of Asia from a Lydian city, or from a Lydian King and Heros, is far more properly appliable to Lydia it self, then to the whole continent either of the greater or the lesser Asia. For that Lydia was tformerly called Asia, is directly affirmed by the ancient Scholiast of Apollonius Rhodius: and that the Asia mentioned in the New Testament was comprehended within the bounds of Lydia (containing in it, according to the above confirmed description, Aeolis and Jonia) will quickly appear to those that carefully compare the Acts of the Apostles and the book of the Revelation together.
Whether rfrom this Asias the continent of Asia did take his denomination, or from the forementioned city of Lydia, or from Asia the wife of Prometheus, or from some other originall; Stephanus Byzantinus leaveth us to enquire. But beside that the first vowell in Homers Asia is long, and in the greater Asia (which sStephanus acknowledgeth him to have been ignorant of) is of a *short quantitie: no man can doubt, but the derivation of the name of Asia from a Lydian city, or from a Lydian King and Heros, is farre more properly applyable to Lydia it selfe, then to the whole continent either of the greater or the lesser Asia. For that Lydia was tformerly called Asia, is directly affirmed by the ancient Scholiast of Apollonius Rhodius: and that the Asia mentioned in the New Testament was comprehended within the bounds of Lydia (containing in it, according to the above confirmed description, Aeolis and Ionia) will quickly appeare to those that carefully compare the Acts of the Apostles and the booke of the Revelation together.