Supplementary Papers (Volume 4)

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated.1890 Excerpt: ... to be under the conventus of Cyzicos if there was one; hut Pliny places them under Adramyttion. Marquardt's quotation from Aristides may prove either that the conventus of Adramyttion was subdivided after Pliny's time, or that the meetings of this conventuB were sometimes held at Cyzicos. Similarly, Kibyra, which was originally far more important than Laodiceia, was in the same conventus with it, and the courts were usually held at Laodiceia. 46. The conventus of Sardis includes the following (names mentioned by Pliny being asterised): Philadelpheia. Maionia. Tripolis-Antoniopolis. Satala. Apollonos Hieron. Saittai. Mesotimolos. Silandos. Tmoleitai. Bagis. Blaundos. Tabala. Sala.. Daldis(?). Tralla. Kadoeni Macedones. Temenothyrai-Flaviopolis. Loreni (Gordeni?). Grimenothyrai-Trajanopolis. Ankyra. Synaos. B. Cities And Bishoprics Of Lydia. 1. The lists of the province Lydia are a puzzle as yet unsolved. The remarkable discoveries of M. Fontrier, of Smyrna, supplemented by MM. Badet and Lechat, have only rendered the character and order of the lists more puzzling than before. The order of the first five bishoprics suggests a connection between Hierocles and the ecclesiastical lists, but the former omits Sala, Hyrcanis, Blaundos, Daldis, and Stratonikaia, which the latter give; and Julianopolis in Hierocles perhaps is the name of Silandos of the Notitias. The connection between Hierocles and the ecclesiastical lists, then, is not nearly so close, if it does exist, as in Asia. On the other hand, the numerous omissions in Hierocles cannot be explained by his having used a list of the cities of Lydia compiled for purposes of government. I long entertained the view, suggested I think somewhere by M. Waddington, that Hierocles used as his authority the government ...