Ducenta fere millia hominum numerabat urbs (Abulfeda, Annal. Moslem. p. 231)
of Mopsuestia, or Masifa,
Mampsysta, Mansista, Mamista, as it is corruptly, or perhaps
more correctly, styled in the middle ages (Wesseling,
Itinerar. p. 580). Yet I cannot credit this extreme
populousness a few years after the testimony of the emperor Leo,
(Tactica, c. xviii. in Meursii Oper. tom. vi. p. 817).