Cappadocia
Place
Civil War 3.4 supplies the first indexed source portrait: “… Of these Deiotarus had brought six hundred Gauls, and Ariobarzanes five hundred from Cappadocia; Cotys had provided the same number from Thrace and had sent his son Sadala; from Macedonia there were two hundred under the command of Rhascypolis, a man of marked valour. …”
Named form in selected editions; identity established only to the extent of the cited context.
Civil War 3.4
Caesar
… Of these Deiotarus had brought six hundred Gauls, and Ariobarzanes five hundred from Cappadocia; Cotys had provided the same number from Thrace and had sent his son Sadala; from Macedonia there were two hundred under the command of Rhascypolis, a man of marked valour. …
Alexandrian War 34
Pseudo-Caesar; authorship disputed
While these events were taking place in Egypt, king Deiotarus came to Domitius Calvinus, to whom Caesar had assigned the government of Asia and the neighbouring provinces, to beg him not to allow Lesser Armenia, his own kingdom, or Cappadocia, the kingdom of Ariobarzanes, to be occupied and over-run by Pharnaces: for unless they were liberated from this scourge, he could not carry out his instructions and pay out the money he had promised to Caesar. …
Alexandrian War 35
Pseudo-Caesar; authorship disputed
Meantime the envoys brought back this reply from Pharnaces: he had withdrawn from Cappadocia, but had recovered Lesser Armenia, which he ought to possess by due right of inheritance from his father. …
Geographical record
Pleiades representative point · precise
A region that stretched from Lake Tatta in the east to the upper Euphrates River and from the Black Sea southward to Cilicia.
Pleiades 628949 · CC BY 3.0 · Barrington Atlas: BAtlas 64 B2 Cappadocia
All indexed divisions · 5
Civil War 3.4 · Alexandrian War 34 · Alexandrian War 35 · Alexandrian War 40 · Alexandrian War 66