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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
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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.
sSome do think, that the Emperor Justinian did take away Hellespont from the government of the Proconsul of Asia, and joined it with Pontus Polemoniacus. But that error arose from the old Latin translation of the Xxth. Novel of Justinian; tHellespontus being therein put for Helenopontus, in the Pontican diocese: as appeareth not only by the Greek text and uJulians ⟨p. 24⟩Latin Epitome thereof, but also by the Latin it self (acknowledging afterwards, that this mutation was made in Galatia and the Pontican, not the Asian diocese) and by the XXVIIIth. Novel most evidently. Though sure it is, that xhe took from the Lieutenant or Vicarius the government of the Asian diocese, and confined him within the limits of Phrygia Pacatiana, whereof he constituted him Count or Comes.
sSome do think, that the Emperour Iustinian did take away Hellespont from the government of the Proconsul of Asia, and joyned it with Pontus Polemoniacus. But that errour arose from the old Latin translation of the XXth. Novell of Justinian; tHellespontus being therein put for Helenopontus, in the Pontican diocese: as appeareth not only by the Greek text and uIulians ⟨p. 24⟩Latin Epitome thereof, but also by the Latin it selfe (acknowledging afterwards, that this mutation was made in Galatia and the Pontican, not the Asian diocese) and by the XXVIIIth. Novell most evidently. Though sure it is, that xhe took from the Lievtenant or Vicarius the government of the Asian diocese, and confined him within the limits of Phrygia Pacatiana, whereof he constituted him Count or Comes.