THE SITUATION OF CAPPADOCIA

Latine · Mayhoff 1906

Peracta est interior ora ac loca amnesque, accolae: nune reddatur ingens in mediterraneo situs, in quo multa aliter ac veteres proditurum me non eo infitias, anxia perquisita cura rebus nuper in eo situ gestis a Domitio Corbulone regibusque inde missis supplicibus aut regum liberis obsidibus. ordiemur autem a Cappadocum gente. longissime haec Ponticarum omniwun introrsus recedens Minorem Armeniam Maioremque et Commagenen laevo suo latere transit, dextro vero omqes in Asia dictas gentes, plurimis superfusa populis, magnoque impetu scandens ad ortum solis et Tauri iuga transit Lycaoniam, Pisidiam, Ciliciam, vadit super Antiochiae tractum et usque ad Cyrresticam eius regionem parte sua quae vocatur Cataonia contendit. itaque ibi longitudo Asiae XII.L??? efficit, latitudo DCXL.

English · Bostock & Riley 1855–57

We have now gone over the coast which borders upon the Inner Sea, and have enumerated the various nations that dwell thereon; let us now turn to those vast tracts of land which lie further in the interior. I do not deny that in my description I shall differ very materially from the ancient writers, but still it is one that has been compiled with the most anxious research, from a full examination into the events which have transpired of late in these countries under the command of Domitius Corbulo, and from information received either from kings who have been sent thence to Rome, as suppliants for our mercy, or else the sons of kings who have visited us in the character of hostages.

We will begin then with the nation of the Cappadocians.

Of all the countries of Pontus, this extends the greatest distance into the interior. On the left it leaves behind the Lesser and the Greater Armenia, as well as Commagene, and on the right all the nations of the province of Asia which we have previously described. Spreading over numerous peoples, it rises rapidly in elevation in an easterly direction towards the range of Taurus. Then passing Lycaonia, Pisidia, and Cilicia, it advances above the district of Antiochia, the portion of it known as Cataonia extending as far as Cyrrhestica, which forms part of that district. The length of Asia here is twelve hundred and fifty miles, its breadth six hundred and forty.