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Megariee, being the most polislied 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 Cjtse, 
Zephyrium, Acrse, Nymphseum, and Dia. Panticapseum', 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 Yirgiu 
Diana or Artemis, whose temple stood on its heights, in which human 
sacrifices were ofiered to the goddess. 
2 Supposed to be the same as the now-famed port of Balaklava. 
3 The modern Aia-burun, the great southern headland of the Crimea. 
According to Plutarch, it was called by the natives Brixaba, which, 
like the name Criumetopon, meant the " Ram's Head." 
^ Now Kerempi, a promontory of Paphlagonia in Asia Minor. Strabo 
considers this promontory and that of Criumetopon as dividing the 
Euxine into two seas. 
^ 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 modern Kaffa occupies its site. The sites of many of the places 
here mentioned appear not to be known at the present day. 
7 The modern Kertsch, situate on a hill at the very mouth of the 
Cimmerian Bosporus, or Straits of Enikale or Kaffa, opposite the tovm 
of Phanagoria in Asia. 
^ In C. 24 of the present Book. Clark identifies the town of Cim- 
merium with the modern Temruk, Eorbiger with Eskikrimm. It is 
again mentioned in B. vi. c. 2. 
