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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, III. Of the Proconsular Asia, and the several alterations of the limits thereof.
CHAP, III. Of the Proconsular Asia, and the severall alterations of the limits thereof.
I Come now from the Lydian Asia, and the seven Metropolitical cities thereof, unto the Proconsular: which, according to the condition of aother Provinces, had in several times it's several alterations. For in the distribution of the Empire made by Augustus Caesar, it appeareth to have been the same with that former Asia of the Romans, which we described in the beginning out of Cicero; but in that which was afterwards brought in by Constantine, to have been confined within the bounds of the Lydian Asia. the greatness of the one above the other being sufficiently intimated in those verses of Statius, touching the year of the Proconsulship of Vectius Bolanus; who, before that, had been Proconsul here in Britain: b—quantusque potentes Mille urbes Asia sortito rexerit anno; Imperium mulcente Togâ.
I Come now from the Lydian Asia, and the seven Metropoliticall cities thereof, unto the Proconsular: which, according to the condition of aother Provinces, had in severall times it's severall alterations. For in the distribution of the Empire made by Augustus Caesar, it appeareth to have been the same with that former Asia of the Romans, which we described in the beginning out of Cicero; but in that which was afterwards brought in by Constantine, to have been confined within the bounds of the Lydian Asia. the greatnesse of the one above the other being sufficiently intimated in those verses of Statius, touching the yeare of the Proconsulship of Vectius Bolanus; who, before that, had been Proconsul here in Brittaine: