14 PLIirr'S NATTTKAIi HISTOET. [Book VI. 



Euxine and Lake Maeotis, is not more than sixty-seven 

 miles and a half, and the width across never less than two 

 jugera :^ it has the name of Eion.='* The shores of the Bos- 

 porus then take a curve both on the side of Europe and of 

 Asia, thus forming the Mseotis. The towns at the entrance of 

 the Bosporus are, first Hermonassa,"' next Cepi," founded by 

 the Milesians, and then Sti-atoclia and Phanagoria,'* and the 

 almost deserted town of Apaturos,^' and, at the extremity of 

 the mouth, Cimmerium,*" which was fprmerly called Cerberion. 

 (7.) We then come to Lake Mteotis, which has been already 

 mentioned*' in the description of Europe. 



CHAP. 7. LAKE Maoris AND THE ADJOININO NAIIONS. 



After passing Cimmerlum, the coast" is inhabited by the 

 Maeotici, the Vali, the Serbi," the Arrechi, the Zingi, and the 

 Psessi. We then come to the river Tanais,** which discharges 



'* Thejtifferian was 109 Grecian or 104 Boman feet in length, 



'* Signifying in Greek the " sea-shore." 



^5 Lying between Singa and Phanagoria. EenneU fixes it at the open- 

 ing of the lake into whicTi the Kouban flows. 



s' Or the "gardens," from the Greek ic^?rot. A town of the Cimme- 

 rian Bosporus, founded by the Milesians. Dr. Clarke identifies tbe mo- 

 dern Sienna with it, and the curious Milesian sculptures found there con- 

 firm the supposition. 



'9 Its ruins are supposed to be those near Taman, on the eastern side 

 of the Straits of Kaffa. It was the great emporium for all the traffic be- 

 tween the coasts of the Palus Mseotis and the countries on the south of the 

 Caucasus, and was chosen by the kings of Bosporus as their capital in Asia. 



s» A town of the Sinds ; it possessed, like Phanagoria, a celebrated 

 temple of Aphrodite Apaturos, or Venus " the Deceiver," whence probably 

 its name. 



*» Clarke identifies it with the modem Temruk, but Forbiger with 

 Eskikrimm. 



" See B. iv. c. 24. 

 -J *" V^^'i ^5'ing on the east of the Sea of Azol. It seems impossible to 

 identify the spot inhabited by each of these savage tribes. Hardouin says 

 that the modern name of that inhabited by the Mteotici is Coumania 



« Parisot suggests that this tribe afterwards emigrated to the west, 

 and after establishing themselves in Macedonia, finally gave its name to mo- 

 dern Servia He remarks, that most of these names appear to have been 

 greatly mutilated, through the ignorance or carelessness of the transcribers 

 be sTlt "'^"""™P'^ agreeing as to the mode in which they Btould 



" Or Don. Itflow^ into the Sea of Azof by two larger mouths and 



