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It may not be unsuitable to the purpose of this Journal to depart for once from the strictly scientific method, and describe shortly the problem of a ‘Lost Phrygian City,’ as it presents itself to the explorer both in its relation to ancient literature and in its actual modern features. I take the example of a city which played no part in ancient history, which is mentioned only twice or thrice incidentally in classical literature, where no known event took place and no person known to fame was born, which, in short, is about as insignificant as a city could well be, and I hope to show that the discovery even of such a little city may have interest and value for classical scholars.
The passage in which Livy describes the march of the consul Manlius on his piratical raid through Asia Minor is one of peculiar interest on many grounds, apart from its value for students of geography. There is no passage in the whole of Livy which is more obviously translated from a Greek original: it is therefore of great importance in the question of his relation to his authorities and of his trustworthiness in using them. Beyond the mere resolution of the true scholar to understand his author, there is the further incentive to study this particular passage that the author's historical character is to some extent dependent on it. Now the third recorded stage beyond Sagalassos in Manlius's march is the Metropolitanus Campus. Where in wide Phrygia was the Metropolitanus Campus?
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page 54 note 1 I proposed this assignation on insufficient grounds in Mittheil. Inst. Ath. 1882, p. 145.
page 54 note 2 Mionnet quotes from Sestini a coin of Antoninus Pius with the legend, ΕΙΙΙ………ΜΗΤΡΟΠΟΛΕΙΤΩΝ.
page 55 note 1 I have since regretted that we did not spend a day among the villages on the northern side of this valley, along the road to Sandukli, the ancient Hieropolis. I should now look for some Phrygian city on this road; but circumstances confined our whole journey within very narrow limits of time.
page 55 note 2 I use the word mile always in the Roman sense.
page 56 note 3 No coins, except a few Byzantine and autonomous coins of Apameia, could be found in the valley. A Greek emissary had recently crossed the valley, and bought every coin.
page 58 note 1 See Longperier, in Rev. Numism. 1869–1870Google Scholar; Waddington on Lebas, Inscr. As. Min. No. 1209; Bull. Corr. Hell. iii. p. 340.
page 59 note 1 See also Lebas, Nos. 1209, 1210, 1223, 1257, &c.
page 60 note 1 Compare τοῦ συλλόγου προτρεψαμένου in an inscription from Teira of Lydia, Μουσ. Σμυρν. Σχολ, No. σλα.
page 61 note 1 One of them I described in Mittheil. Inst. Ath. 1882, p. 144, but with the inscription incomplete, and (through a misprint which would have been corrected if I had seen the proof sheets), incorrect.
page 64 note 1 It is very extraordinary that Forbiger, Alte Geogr. on Metropolis of Phrygia, should pronounce this derivation lächerlich.
page 64 note 2 The same tendency has operated in Greece itself in many cases, see Foucart on Lebas, , Inscrip. Pelop. No. 326a, p. 165Google Scholar.
page 64 note 3 C. I. G. No. 4,000.
page 64 note 4 The word ἐξηγητής, besides its technical sense in religious law, often denotes in Pausanias the persons who showed him over the sights of the district and expounded to him its antiquarian lore, hardly distinguishable from his περιηγητής, or ‘guide.’
page 65 note 1 Journ. Hell. Stud. 1882, ‘Sipylos and Cybele.’
page 66 note 1 A village two miles from Tatarly; perhaps Aktchilar, ‘the cooks.’
page 66 note 2 I have published another struck under Decius, in Mittheil. Inst. Ath. as cited above.
page 67 note 1 Gratulationschrift der Königsb. Univ. fur. d. Arch. Inst in Rome, 1879, and Reisebericht in Monatsb-Berlin, 1879. Previously Prof. Hirschfeld took the correct view that Metropolis was in the Tchyl Ova.
page 67 note 2 
Strab. p. 569. He says that it is a day's journey from Apameia: the distance is now reckoned fourteen hours by the most direct path.
page 67 note 3 300 to 380 metres, Hirschfeld.
page 68 note 1 It must however be remembered that Acoridos or Acaridos may be the true reading.
page 68 note 2 The original statement might have been that Manlius passed near Aporidos Come, and encamped beside Rhotrinos Fontes.
page 69 note 1 Cp. Strab. xiii. p. 616.
page 69 note 2 Dissert. viii. 8.
page 69 note 3 Apameia-Celaenae, in Berl. Abhand. 1876Google Scholar.
page 70 note 1 It has such a short course that Strabo, giving a very accurate and distinct account of Apameia, mentions Marsyas, Maeander, and Orgas, but omits Obrimas.
page 70 note 2 Michaelis, , Annali, 1858Google Scholar; Ruhl, , Zft. f. Oesterr. Gymnas. 1882Google Scholar. This last paper is not accessible to me. Pliny (xvi. 89) mentions the plane-tree on which Marsyas was fastened.
page 71 note 1 I need not here repeat the remarks about the assignation of classes (3) and (4) of the coins of Metropolis to the northern Metropolis, as given in the above-mentioned article, and in the additional remarks in the same Journal 1883.
page 71 note 2 Compare Hipponax, , Fragm. 46 [30]Google Scholar.
page 71 note 3 See Flach, , Geseh. d. griech. Lyrik, P. 77f.Google Scholar