Chap. 5.] ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, ETC. 11 



derives its name from the river which flows at that spot into 

 the Phasis, and up to which place the Phasis is navigable for 

 large vessels, as we have already 3 mentioned. It receives also 

 some other rivers, wonderful for their number and magnitude, 

 and among them the Glaucus. 4 At the mouth of the Phasis, 

 at a distance of seventy miles from Absarus, are some islands, 

 which, however, have no name. After passing this, we come 

 to another river, the Charieis, 5 and the nation of the SalaB, 

 by the ancients called Phthirophagi, 6 as also Suani. 7 The, 

 river Chobus 8 flows from the Caucasus through the country of 

 the Suani. The river Ehoas comes next, then the region of 

 Ecrectice, the rivers Singames, 9 Tarsuras, 10 Astelephus, 11 Chry- 

 sorrhoas. the nation of the Absilae, the castle of Sebastopolis, 12 

 one hundred miles distant from Phasis, the nation of the San- 

 nigse, the town of Cygnus, 13 and the river and town of Penius. 11 

 We then come to the tribes of the Heniochi, 15 who are dis- 

 tinguished by numerous names. 



CHAP. 5. (5) THE KEGION OF COLICA, THE NATIONS OF THE 



ACHJEI, AND OTHER NATIONS IN THE SAME PARTS. 



Below this lies the region of Pontus known as Colica, 16 in 



3 In the previous pa,?e. 



4 Now called the Tchorocsu. 



5 It is doubtful whether this is the same river as that mentioned by 

 Strabo under the name of Chares. D'Anville says that its modern name 

 is Enguri. 



6 Or "Feeders on Lice;" so called, according to Strabo, from the ex- 

 treme filthiness of their habits. 



7 There is a nation in this vicinity still called by a similar name. Pro- 

 fessor Pallas, who visited them, says that nothing can equal their dishonesty, 

 rapacity, and voracity. Parisot suggests that they are probably the 

 descendants of the Phthirophagi of Pliny. 



8 Now called the Khalira, according to D'Anville. 



9 Now called the Hati-Scari, according to D'Anville. 



10 Now the Okhum, according to D'Anville. 



11 Now the Mosti-Skari, according to D'Anville. 



12 Still called Savastopoli, according to Hardouin. 



13 This must not be confounded with the other place of the same name 

 mentioned in the present Chapter. See p. 10. 



14 Hermolaus suggests Pityus as the correct reading. 



15 The Sarmi Heniochi ; one of these nations has been already men- 

 tioned in the last page. 



16 Inhabited anciently by the Coli, and constituting the northern portion 

 of ancient Colchis. 



