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Once an important city of Great Phrygia, on the river Lycus, but so reduced subsequently that it might have been forgotten but for the epistle written to its inhabitants by the Apostle Paul.
City of Phrygia in Asia Minor. Colossae was an important city of Phrygia, mentionned by Herodotus in his Histories. It is also, according to Xenophon, the place where Meno and the Thessalians sent by Aristippus fom Larissa to help Cyrus the Younger try and unseat his brother Artaxerxes met with Cyrus' army in the spring of 401 B. C.
Bernard Suzanne (page last updated 2001), ed.
This extract is cited July 2003 from the Plato and his dialogues URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks.
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