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LYCAONIA

Volume 10 · 84 words · 1797 Edition

(anc. geog.), a small country of the Hither Asia, contained between Pamphylia to the south, Cappadocia to the north, Pisidia and Phrygia to the west, and Armenia Minor to the east. Lycaones, the people. This country, though situated very near mount Taurus, and part of it on it, yet the Romans reckoned it into Asia intra Taurum. Arcadia, anciently called Lycaonia, (Stephanus.)—Alfo an island in the Tiber, joined to Rome by a bridge, and to the land by another, namely, the Cestius and Fabricius.