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in Lycaonia to Garsaüra, note a small city of Cappadocia, situated
on its borders, 120 stadia; thence to Mazaca, note the metropolis
of the Cappadocians, through Soandus and Sadacora, 680
stadia; thence to the Euphrates, as far as Tomisa, a stronghold in Sophene, through Herphae, note a small town,
The places in a straight line with these, as far as India, are described in the same manner by Artemidorus and Eratosthenes. Polybius says, that with respect to those places we ought chiefly to depend upon Artemidorus. He begins from Samosata in Commagene, which is situated at the passage, and the Zeugma of the Euphrates, to Samosata across the Taurus, from the mountains of Cappadocia about Tomisa, he says is a distance of 450 stadia.
AFTER the part of the coast opposite note to Rhodes, the boundary of which is Daedala, in sailing thence towards the east, we come to Lycia, which extends to Pamphylia; next is Pamphylia, extending as far as Cilicia Tracheia, which reaches as far as the Cilicians, situated about the Bay of Issus. These are parts of the peninsula, the isthmus of which we said was the road from Issus as far as Amisus, note or, according to some authors, to Sinope.
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