Phrygia Major

Sources from old books:

1638. The merchants mappe of commerce wherein by Lewes Roberts.

In Phrygia major, doth not remaine any thing note worthie, save a remembrance that Gordion the seat of Gordius was here found in Alexanders time, who cut that knot with his sword which he saw he could not otherwise undoe; also Midium the seat of Midas, whose covetous petition was granted by Bacchus, to convert all into gold that he handled, and so had like to have eaten gold for meate, had not his after wit mastered his covetous appetite, and made him to his repentance see his error, & acknowledge it; and falling againe to a second over-sight in judgement, as the first was an error in desire, he preferred Pans pipe before Apolloes harpe, and was rewarded for his small skill in musicke with a comely paire of Asses eares: also in this Province stood Colosso, to whom Saint Paul writ one of his Epistles; and Pesinus, where the goddesse Sybile was worshipped, which being brought into Rome, would not stirre further than the entrance of the river Tyber, which the Romans much wondred, because the dominion of the world was prophesied to that Citie that had the custodie thereof; but the vestall Claudias girdle performed that which all the strength of Rome could not, and shee halled up both the Ship and goddesse, to the wonder of the Citizens at that time, and of all the world ever since, though Farre greater miracles are found to be reported of that Citie, and the holy inhabitants thereof at this day, if the said reports might gaine that credit now as this miracle then did.