Cappadocia, A countrey of Asia, haning on the south, Cilicia, and the mountaine Taurus: On the east, Armeny, and diuerse other nations: On the north, the sea Euxinum: On the west, Galatia: and is diuided from Armenie the more, with the famous riuer Euphrates. In this cotrey are bredde plentie of excellent good horses. It was sometime called Alba Syria, because % people there bee whyter than in % other Siria. The people therof are called Cappadoces, whose conditions were reputed so yll, that among the common people, if one had bene seene to be of yll fashion, they woulde say hee was of Cappadocia. In that Countrey were borne, Basilius Magnus, and Gregorius Nazianzenus, two holie Byshops and excellent doctors.
Lewis and Short: Latin dictionary
Cappădŏcĭa, ae, f., = *kappadoki/a, a country of Asia Minor, north of Cilicia, between the Taurus and Pontus, now called Caramania, Plin. 6, 3, 3, 8 sq.; Cic. Agr. 2, 21, 55; id. Att. 5, 18, 1; id. Fam. 15, 2, 1 sq.; Curt. 3, 1, 24; Nep. Eum. 2, 2.—II. Derivv. A. Cappădox, ŏcis, m., = *kappa/doc, a Cappaaocian, Cic. Red. in Sen. 6, 14.—In plur., Mel. 1, 2, 5; 3, 8, 5; Plin. 6, 3, 3, 9; Hor. Ep. 1, 6, 39; Gr. acc. Cappadŏcas, Pers. 6, 77; appos. equi, Veg. 4, 6, 3. —B. Cappădŏcus, a, um, adj., of Cappadocia, Cappadocian: gens, Col. 10, 184; Plin. 6, 2, 2, 6: catastae, Mart. 10, 76; cf. Pers. 6, 77: sal, Col. 6, 17, 7; cf. Plin. 31, 7, 39, 73 sq.: lactuca, Col. 10, 191; cf. id. 10, 184; also absol. Cappadoca, Mart. 5, 78. —C. Cappădŏcĭus, a, um, adj., Cappadocian: lactuca, Col. 11, 3, 26; cf. the preced.: zizipha, Plin. 21, 9, 27, 51.—D. CAPPADOCICVSEXERCITVS, upon a coin of Adrian, in Eckh. Doct. Num. 6, p. 493.—E. Cap-pădŏcarchĭa, ae, f., = *kappadokarxia, the priest's office in Cappadocia, Dig. 27, 1, 6.