834 JMlfT'S ITATTTEAL HISTOET. [Book lY. 



Megarice, being the most polished city throughout all these 

 regions, in consequence of its strict preservation of Grecian 

 manners and customs. A wall, five miles in length, sur- 

 rounds it. Next to this comes the Promontory of Par- 

 thenium*, the city of the Tauri, Placia, the port of the Sym- 

 bolic, and the Promontory of Criumetopon^, opposite to 

 Carambis*, a promontory of Asia, which runs out in the 

 middle of the Euxine, leaving an intervening space between 

 them of 170 miles, which circumstance it is in especial that 

 gives to this sea the form of a Scythian bow. After leaving 

 this headland we come to a great number of harbours and 

 lakes of the Tauri'. The town of Theodosia'' is distant 

 from Criumetopon 125 miles, and from Chersonesus 165. 

 Beyond it there were, in former times, the towns of Cytse, 

 Zephyrium, Acrae, Nymphseum, and Dia. Panticapteum', a 

 city of the Milesians, by far the strongest of them all, is 

 still in existence ; it lies at the entrance of the Bosporus, 

 and is distant from Theodosia eighty-seven miles and a half, 

 and from the town of Cimmerium, which lies on the other 

 side of the Strait, as we have previously" stated, two miles 

 and a half. Such is the width here of the channel which 

 separates Asia from Europe, and which too, from being 

 generally quite frozen over, allows of a passage on foot. 



^ The modem Felenk-burun. So called from the Parthenos or Virgin 

 Diana or Artemis, whose temple stood on its heights, in which human 

 saorifices were offered to the goddess. 



' Supposed to be the same as the now-famed port of Balaklava. 



' The modem Aia-bunm, the great southern headland of the Crimea. 

 According to Plutarch, it was called by the natives Briiaba, which, 

 like the name Crivunetopon, meant the " Ram's Head." 



* Now Kerempi, a promontoiy of Paphlagonia in Asia Minor. Strabo 

 considers this promontory and that of (>iumetopon as dividing the 

 Euxine into two seas. 



5 According to Strabo, the sea-line of the Tauric Chersonesus, after 

 leaving the port of the Symboh, extended 125 miles, as far as Theodosia. 

 Pliny would here seem to make it rather greater. 



6 The modem Kaffa occupies its site. The sites of many of the places 

 here mentioned appear not to be known at the present day. 



7 The modem Kertsch, situate on a hill at the very mouth of the 

 Cimmerian Bosporus, or Straits of Enikale or Kaffa, opposite the town 

 of Phanagoria in Asia. 



8 In C. 24 of the present Book. Clark identifies the town of Cim- 

 merium with the modem Temmk, Forbiger with Eskikrimm. It is 

 again mentioned in B. vi. c. 2. 



