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…

Indeed, ⁿin the general enumeration of the Provinces of the Eastern Empire, which we meet withal toward the beginning of the foresaid Theodosian Breviary, there are but ten Provinces numbered of the whole Asian diocese: the first and principal of them all, to wit Asia it self, by some error (wherewith ^oOnuphrius also and ^pContius was misled) being omitted. Which was nothing amended by Isidorus Mercator, but increased rather; when he reckoneth up ^qtwelve Provinces in this Asia: the first and chief whereof he maketh to be Asia it self; ^rin which (saith he) is Ilium, or Troy; the second Lydia, the third Galatia. Whereas Ilium was situated not in this, but in rhe province of Hellespont: and Galatia appertained to the Pontican, and not to the Asian Diocese. Whence, by the way, we may correct an error that hath crept into the Greek edition of the subscriptions of the 6. Action of the Council of Chalcedon: wherein, though Theosebius Bishop of Ilium had put to his name, yet Stephen the Metropolitan of the Ephesians, among those absent Bishops that were under his jurisdiction, doth nominate Rufinus Bishop, not Timi (as the Latin books have it) but Ilii.

Indeed, ⁿin the generall enumeration of the Provinces of the Easterne Empire, which we meet withall toward the beginning of the foresaid Theodosian Breviary, there are but ten Provinces numbred of the whole Asian diocese: the first and principall of them all, to wit Asia it selfe, by some errour (wherewith ^oOnuphrius also and ^pContius was misledd) being omitted. Which was nothing amended by Isidorus Mercator, but increased rather; when he reckoneth up ^q