25 Strabo, Geography 12.578.
25Strabo, Geography 12.578.
26Pliny, Nat. Hist. 21.51.
27By the time of Augustus, proconsular Asia was sufficiently peaceful not to require the stabilizing presence of new Roman colonies; in South Galatia, on the other hand, the threat of trouble from the Homonadensian tribes in the Taurus area and from other directions led to the creation of the colonies of Pisidian Antioch and Lystra in A.D. 6.
28Sepharad in Ob. 20, like Akkadian Sapardu and Old Persian Sfarda, probably approximates the Lydian pronunciation.
29Josephus, Ant. 12.119.
30Josephus, Ant. 12.125.