from the Circassian frontier, 
principal part of this intercourse was confined 
to the Cimmerian Bosporus, whose kings and 
princes received the highest marks of Athenian 
regard. Many of them were made citizens of 
Athens: an honour esteemed, in that age, one 
of the most distinguished that could be con- 
ferred 1 2 . From periods the most remote — from 
those distant ages when Milesian settlements 
were first established upon the coasts of the 
Buxine — a trade with the inhabitants of the 
country, extending even to the Pa/us Mceotis 
and to the mouths of the Tanais, had been 
carried on ; and it is perhaps to those early 
colonies of Greece that we may attribute most 
of the surprising sepulchral monuments found 
upon either side of the Cimmerian Bosporus. 
The Milesians erected a number of cities upon 
all the shores of the Euxine, and peopled them 
with their own colonies*. Other states of 
Greece, and especially the Athenian, followed 
their example 3 . The difficulty of ascertaining 
the locality of those ancient cities arises from 
(1) “ Leuco, king of Thrace, was so much pleased thereby, that he 
ordered the decree, making him an Athenian Citizen, to be engraven on 
three marble columns. One of them was placed in the Tira na, another 
on the side of the Thracian Bosporus, and the third in the temple of 
Jupiter Urius.” Clarke s Connexion of Coins, p. 56. 
(2) Ibid. (3) Ibid. 
