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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.
Chapter 4: Of the Asian Diocese, and the Metropolitan cities thereof; with the Civill and Ecclesia…
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.
According to which acception, whole fAsia, as Theodoret calleth it, in the days of the younger Theodosius did consist of eleven Provinces. gthree whereof appertained to the disposition of the Proconsul of Asia: the proper Proconsular which he governed by himself, the Consular Hellespont, and that of the Rhodes, and the other scattered Islands called Cyclades; which were first hmade a Province, and placed under a iPresident, by the Emperor Vespasian keight were under the Vicarius or Lieutenant of Asia: Lydia, Caria, Phrygia Pacatiana and Phrygia Salutaris, with those four other which were superadded to that proper Asia of the ancient Romans, whereof we made mention in the beginning out of Strabo and Cicero; namely Pamphylia, Lycia, Lycaonia and Pisidia.
According to which acception, whole fAsia, as Theodoret calleth it, in the dayes of the younger Theodosius did consist of eleven Provinces. gthree whereof appertained to the disposition of the Proconsul of Asia: the proper Proconsular which he governed by himselfe, the Consular Hellespont, and that of the Rhodes, and the other scattered Islands called Cyclades; which were first hmade a Province, and placed under a iPresident, by the Emperour Vespasian keight were under the Vicarius or Lieutenant of Asia: Lydia, Caria, Phrygia Pacatiana and Phrygia Salutaris, with those foure other which were superadded to that proper Asia of the ancient Romans, whereof we made mention in the beginning out of Strabo and Cicero; namely Pamphylia, Lycia, Lycaonia and Pisidia.