[643] Ptolemy Geog.
Isidorus Characenus. Geog. Vet. vol. 2. p. 7.
[644] Cellarii Geog. vol. 2. p. 80.
[645] Strabo. l. 12. p. 868, 869. and l. 13. p. 929-932.
Εστι δε επιφανεια τεφρωδης των πεδιων.
Strabo supposes that the Campus Hyrcanus was so named from the Persians; as also Κυρου πεδιον, near it; but they seem to have been so denominated ab origine. The river Organ, which ran, into the Mæander from the Campus Hyrcanus, was properly Ur-chan. Ancyra was An-cura, so named a fonte Solis κυρος γαρ ὁ ἡλιος. All the names throughout the country have a correspondence: all relate either to the soil, or the religion of the natives; and betray a great antiquity.
[646] Ptolemy. Geog. l. 2. c. 11.
[647] Mentioned in Pliny's Panegyric: and in Seneca; consolatio ad Helv. l. 6. Aristotle in Meteoris.
[648] Here was one of the fountains of the Danube. Ιστρος τε γαρ ποταμος αρξαμενος εκ Κελτων και Πυρηνης πολιος ῥεει, μεσην σχιζων την Ευρωπην. Herodotus. l. 2. c. 33.
[649] See Cluverii Germania.