Cappadocia

For all Cappadocia is watching the future, among whom I would pray to count this too, along with the rest of the good things that belong to you.

but I have sent them with the consent of all the brethren in Cappadocia, who also urged me not to employ any chance person as bearer of the letter, but a man who could supply, by his own understanding which he has from the grace of God, all that we have passed over in the letter, fearing lest we should let our discourse run on into great excess.

For the conflagration, which has fed upon much of the East, is now creeping over ours as well, and, having burned all around, strives contentiously to lay hold even of the churches in Cappadocia, which until now the smoke from the neighborhood moved to tears.

Accordingly, he sent around to all those under his sway and to Croesus, the king of Lydia, to the king of Cappadocia;

and Aribaeus, the king of Cappadocia, has 6000 horse and not fewer than 30,000 bowmen and peltasts;

On the way to Babylon he subdued Greater Phrygia and Cappadocia and reduced the Arabians to submission.

The reasons for Croesus ' expedition against Cappadocia were these:

Croesus, mistaking the meaning of the oracle, invaded Cappadocia, expecting to destroy Cyrus and the Persian power.

Passing over with his army, Croesus then came to the part of Cappadocia called Pteria (it is the strongest part of this country and lies on the line of the city of Sinope on the Euxine sea), where he encamped and devastated the farms of the Syrians;

Claudius Lucius Herminianus in Cappadocia, when, taking it ill that his wife had gone over to this sect, he had cruelly handled the Christians, and, alone in his praetorium, laid waste by a plague, had boiled up with worms while still living, kept saying, "Let no one know it, lest the Christians rejoice, or the Christian women hope.

In whom have the nations believed — the Parthians, the Medes, the Elamites, and those who dwell in Mesopotamia, Armenia, Phrygia, Cappadocia, and those who inhabit Pontus and Asia and Pamphylia, those who reside in Egypt, and those who inhabit the region of Africa beyond Cyrene, Romans and resident foreigners, and then the Jews in Jerusalem, and the other nations — as now the various tribes of the …

Again, when he was sent down by his father to be satrap of Lydia, Greater Phrygia, and Cappadocia and was also appointed commander of all the troops whose duty it is to muster in the plain of Castolus, he showed, in the first place, that he counted it of the utmost importance, when he concluded a treaty or compact with anyone or made anyone any promise, under no circumstances to prove false to his word.