5 Herodotus, History 7.30.
5Herodotus, History 7.30.
6Xenophon, Anabasis 1.2.6.
7Strabo, Geography 12.576. Colossae is not one of the πολíσματα which Strabo passes over with a bare mention.
8See MAMA VI (Manchester, 1939), xi, 15-18; W. M. Ramsay, Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia, I (Oxford, 1895), 208-34; D. Magie, Roman Rule in Asia Minor, I (Princeton, 1950), 126-27; II (Princeton, 1950), 985-86.
9Pliny, Nat. Hist. 5.145.
10Cities and Bishoprics of Phrygia, I, 215. Michael is called the ἀϱχɩστϱάτηγoς (“chief captain”) in the Greek versions of Dan. 8:11 (cf. for the sense, though not for the word, Dan. 10:21; 12:1) and in several Greek apocrypha (e.g., Testament of Abraham 1; 9).