BOOK VI. I. 3-II. 6 



The dimension of the Black Sea from the 

 Dai-danelles to the Sea of Azov is given by sonie 

 authorities as 1438^ miles, but Eratosthenes makes it 

 100 miles less. Agrippa gives the distance from 

 Calchadon to the river Rion as 1000 miles and from 

 that rivcr to the Straits of Kertsch as 360 milos, 

 We shall state the distances in scctions as ascertaincd 

 in our own limc. inasmuch as there has been dispute 

 even about the mouth of the Straits of Kertsch. 



Well then, after the mouth of the Dardanelles is 

 the river Rebas, called by some the Rhesus ; then 

 Syris, and Port Calpas, and the Sakarya, a famous 

 river wliich rises in Phrygia and into which flow 

 some very large tributaries, among them the 

 Tembrogius and the Gallas ; its name is commonly 

 given as Sagiarius ; the Corahus where the Marian- 

 dyni tcrritory begins ; the bay of Hcraclea, and thc 

 town of that name on the river Lycus — it is 200 

 miles from the mouth of the Black Sea, — the port 

 of Aconae, of evil repute for the poison called aconif e, 

 the Acherusian Cavern, the rivers Paedopidcs, 

 Callichorus and Sonautes, the to\\Ti of Tium 38 

 miles from Heraclea, and the river BilUs. H. Beyond Pnrhingonvi 

 this river is the Paphhigonian race, called by some 

 the Pyhiemenian, enclosed to the rcar by Gahatia, 

 the Milesian town of Mastya, then Cronma, a place 

 with which Cornehus Nepos connects thc Eneti, 

 from whom he tliinks the Veneti in Italy bearing a 

 similar name must be beheved to be descended ; 

 the town of Sesamon, now called Amastris ; Mount 

 Cytorus, 63 miles from Tium ; the towns of Cimolis 

 and Stephane and tlie river Partlienius. The great 

 projection of Cape Cerambis is 325 miles, or according 

 to others 350 miles, distant from the mouth of thc 



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