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…

Where touching the limits of this Asia NOW properly so called, it may be noted; that as Galen (in the place before alleged) maketh the Hellespontian Mysia (which in the old distribution of the Empire was within the precinct of the jurisdiction of the then Proconsular Asia) to be conterminous unto Pergamus, where he himself was borne: so Eunapius from the same Pergamus beginneth the bounds of the now Proconsular Asia; extending the length thereof from thence downward unto Caria, and the breadth from the Sea unto the mountain Tmolus, which is by Euripides, in his Bacchae, called [Greek or Hebrew] the fortress of Lydia; and on the side whereof Sardis (a chief city of that province, and Eunapius his own country) is not only by him, but also by ^dHerodotus, ^eStrabo, and ^fPliny (how soever Ptolemies Tables do misplace it) sufficiently proved to have been situated. that ridge of the mountain, on which Sardis was seated, bounding that part of Lydia toward the East (as we have said) and the other tract thereof reaching from thence unto Hypaepa, a city of less name within the same country: as Ovid declareth in those verses; ^gNam freta prospiciens latè riget arduus alto Tmolus in ascensu, clivoque extensus utroque, Sardibus hinc, illinc parvis finitur Hypaepis. ⟨p. 18⟩By which description it appeareth, that this Proconsular Asia was little or nothing different from the Lydian Asia; called Lydia, not only by Herodotus and Scylax, but also (if I mistake not) by ^hConstantius the Emperor himself.

Where touching the limits of this Asia NOW properly so called, it may be noted; that as Galen (in the place before alledged) maketh the Hellespontian Mysia (which in the old dist•ibution of the Empire was within the precinct of the jurisdiction of the then Proconsular Asia) to be conterminous unto Pergamus, where he himselfe was borne: so Eunapius from the same Pergamus beginneth the bounds of the now Proconsular Asia; extending the length thereof from thence downeward unto Caria, and the breadth from the Sea unto the mountaine Tmolus, which is by Euripides, in his Bacchae, called the fortresse of Lydia; and on the side whereof Sardis (a chiefe city of that province, and Eunapius his owne countrey) is not only by him, but also by