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Tomi\ and Callatis^, formerly called Acervetis. It also 

 had the cities of Heraclea and Bizone, which latter was 

 swallowed np by an eartliquake ; it now has Dionysopolis^, 

 formerly called Cruni, which is washed by the river Zyras. 

 All this country was formerly possessed by the Scythians, 

 surnamed Aroteres ; their towns were, Aphrodisias, Libistos, 

 Zygere, Eocobe, Eumenia, Parthenopolis, and Grerania^, 

 where a nation of Pigmies is said to have dwelt ; the bar- 

 barians used to call them Cattuzi, and entertain a belief 

 that they were put to flight by cranes. Upon the coast, 

 proceeding from Dionysopolis, is Odessus", a city of the 

 Milesians, the river Panysus*^, and the town of Tetranaulo- 

 chus. Mount Heemus, which, mth its vast chain, over- 

 hangs the Euxine, had in former times upon its summit 

 the town of AristsBum''. At the present day there are upon 

 the coast Mesembria^, and Anchialum^, where Messa for- 

 merly stood. The region of Astice formerly had a town 

 called Anthium ; at the present day Apollonia^° occupies 

 its site. The rivers here are the Panisos, the Eiras, the 

 Teams, and the Orosines ; there are also the towns of Thy- 

 nias", Halmydessos^^, Develton^^, with its lake, now known 

 as Deultum, a colony of veterans, and Phinopolis, near 

 which last is the Bosporus^"*. From the mouth of the Ister 

 to the entrance of the Euxine, some writers have made to be 



1 Now Temesvai', or Jegni Pangola, the capital of Scytliia Minor. It 

 Avas said to have been so called from the Greek re/xrw, "to cut," because 

 Medea here cut to pieces the body of her brother Absyrtus. It is famous 

 as the place of Ovid's banishment ; and here he wrote his ' Tristia' and liis 

 * Pontic Epistles.' ^ Usually identified with the modern Collat, or CoUati. 



3 Its site does not appear to be known, nor yet those of many of the 

 towns here mentioned. 



^ This story no doubt arose from the similarity of its name to yepavos, 

 " a crane ;" the cranes and the Pigmies, according to the poets, being in 

 a state of continual warfare. ^ Supposed to be the present Varna. 



6 Now caUed Daphne-Soui, according to D'Anville. 



7 Said to have been built by Aristseus, son of Apollo. 



^ Now Missivri. ^ Or Anchiale, now AkiaH. 



^^ Now Sizeboh, famous for its temple of Apollo, with his statue, thirty 

 cubits in height, wliich Lucullus carried to Rome. In later times it 

 was called Sozopolis. ^^ Now Tiniada. 



^2 The present Midjeh, according to D'AnviUe. 



^3 Afterwards called Zagora, wliich name it still bears. 



^■^ Or Straits of Constantinople. 



