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The Cappadocians are known to the Greeks by the name of Syrians.
Before the rise of the Persian power, they had been subject to the
Medes; but at the present time they were within the empire of Cyrus,
for the boundary between the Median and the Lydian empires was the
river Halys. This stream, which rises in the mountain country of
Armenia, runs first through Cilicia; afterwards it flows for a while
with the Matieni on the right, and the Phrygians on the left: then,
when they are passed, it proceeds with a northern course, separating
the Cappadocian Syrians from the Paphlagonians, who occupy the left
bank, thus forming the boundary of almost the whole of Lower Asia,
from the sea opposite Cyprus to the Euxine. Just there is the neck
of the peninsula, a journey of five days across for an active walker.
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