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pamphylia

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What does pamphylia mean?

proper noun

  1. A historical region in the south coast of Asia Minor, between Lycia and Cilicia.

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He was not content with getting rid of him out of Greece; but following close at his heels, before the barbarians could take breath and recover themselves, he was already at work, and what with his devastations, and his forcible reduction of some places, and the revolts and voluntary accession of others, in the end, from Ionia to Pamphylia, all Asia was clear of Persian soldiers.
PlutarchPlutarch: Lives of the noble Grecians and RomansProject Gutenberg ebook #674
(Now this Ardiaeus lived a thousand years before the time of Er: he had been the tyrant of some city of Pamphylia, and had murdered his aged father and his elder brother, and was said to have committed many other abominable crimes.) The answer of the other spirit was: ‘He comes not hither and will never come.
PlatoThe RepublicTranslated by Benjamin JowettProject Gutenberg ebook #1497