Asia Apparently not the Roman Province of Asia, but what we call Asia Minor, a name which came into use in Basil’s century.  The “metropolis” is supposed to mean Cæsarea. I admired; but I hurried on to the capital of all that is best in it.  When I arrived home, and did not find you,—the prize which I had sought so eagerly,—there began many and various unexpected hindrances.  First I must miss you because I fell ill; then when you were setting out for the East I could not start with you; then, after endless trouble, I reached Syria, but I missed the philosopher, who had set out for Egypt.  Then I must set out for Egypt, a long and weary way, and even there I did not gain my end.  But so passionate was my longing that I must either set out for Persia, and proceed with you to the farthest lands of barbarism, (you had got there; what an obstinate devil possessed me!) or settle here at Alexandria.  This last I did.  I really think that unless, like some tame beast, I had followed a bough held out to me till I was quite worn out, you would have been driven on and on beyond Indian Nyssa, Νύσιος=᾽Ινδικός.  cf. Soph. Aj. 707.  Nyssa was in the Punjab. or any more remote region, and wandered about out there.  Why say more?