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Thracian Eosporus. Upon these are situate Clialcedon^ 
a free town, sixty-two miles from Mcomedia, formerly 
called Procerastis^, then Colpusa, and after that the " City 
of the Blind," from, the circumstance that its founders 
did not know where to build their city, Byzantium being 
only seven stadia distant, a site which is preferable in every 
respect. 
In the interior of Bithynia are the colony of Apamea^, 
the Agrippenses, the Juliopolitse, and Bithynion^ ; the rivers 
Syrium, Laphias, Pharnacias, Alces, Serinis, LilsDus, Scopius, 
and Hieras^, which separates Bithynia from G^alatia. Be- 
yond Chalcedon formerly stood Chrysopolis^, and then 'Ni- 
copolis, of which the gulf, upon which stands the Port of 
Amycus^, still retains the name ; then the Promontory of 
Naulochum, and Estiee^, a temple of Neptune^. We then 
come to the Bosporus, which again separates Asia from 
Europe, the distance across being half a mile ; it is distant 
twelve miles and a half from Chalcedon. The first entrance 
of this strait is eight miles and three-quarters vride, at the 
^ Its site is supposed to have been about two miles south of the 
modern Scutari, and it is said that the modern Greeks call it Chalkedon, 
and the Turks Kadi-Kioi. Its destruction was completed by the Turks, 
who used its . materials for the construction of the mosques and other 
buildings of Constantinople. 
2 So called, Hardouin thinks, from its being opposite to the Grolden 
Horn, or promontory on which Byzantium was built. 
^ Or Myrlea, mentioned above in C. 40. See p. 490. 
Or Eithynium, lying above Tins. Its vicinity was a good feeding 
country for cattle, and noted for the excellence of its cheese, as men- 
tioned by Phny, B. xi. c. 42. Antinoiis, the favourite of the Emperor 
Adrian, was born here, as Pausanias informs us. Its site does not 
appear to be known. 
* These rivers do not appear to have been identified by the modern 
geographers. 
^ The modern Scutari occupies its site. Dionysius of Byzantium 
states, that it was called Chrysopohs, either because the Persians made 
it the place of deposit for the gold which they levied from the cities, or 
else from Chryses, a son of Agamemnon and Chryseis. 
^ A king of the Bebrycians. For some farther particulars relative to 
this place, see B. xvi. c. 89 of the present Book. 
^ Situate on a promontory, which is represented by the modern Algiro, 
according to Hardouin and Parisot. 
^ Other writers say that it was erected in honour of the Twelve G-reater 
Divinities. 
