⁵ ‘The people who are called the Tectosages closely approach the Pyrenees.… It appears that at one time they were so powerful and had so large a stock of strong men, that, when a sedition broke out in their midst, they drove a considerable number of their own people out of the homeland, that other persons from other tribes made common lot with these exiles; and that among these are also those people who have taken possession of that part of Phrygia which has a common boundary with Cappadocia and the Paphlagonians’ (Strabo, Geography 4. 1. 13; trans. Jones). The following citation may describe pure coincidence, but it should not go unremarked, ‘The Christians in Gaul seem to have come from Asia Minor—certainly Irenaeus [of Lyon] did—and at any rate had close links with Asia Minor: the letter describing the course of the persecution of the Gallic martyrs was addressed to the Christians in Asia … and Phrygia’ (Louth (1989), p. xxiv).