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LYCAONIA

Volume 17 · 83 words · 1810 Edition

in Ancient Geography, a small country of the Hither Asia, contained between Pamphylia to the south, Cappadocia to the north, 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 in Asia intra Taurum. Arcadia, anciently called Lycaonia (Stephanus.)—Also an island in the Tiber, joined to Rome by a bridge, and to the land by another, namely, the Cestius and Fabricius.