TO THE CIMMERIAN BOSPORUS. 
been communicated to me, with the learned 
Koehlers commentary, since the publication of 
the first edition of this volume’. 
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History does not mention Comosarya ; but we 
know, from the inscription, that she was daughter 
of Gorgippus, and wife of Pcerisades, probably 
Pcerisades I. who was son ot Leucon, and suc- 
ceeded his brother Spartocus III. in the fourth 
year of Olympiad cvn. According to Diodorus 2 3 4 , 
this Pcerisades reigned thirty-eight years. It 
appears, from a learned dissertation of M. Boze, 
that Pcerisades, Satyrus, and Gorgippus, are the 
tyrants of the Bosporus alluded to by the 
orator Dinarchus*, when he reproaches Demos- 
thenes with having caused bronze statues to be 
erected in honour of those sovereigns, in the 
public square at Athens. This, and the pre- 
ceding marble, tend to confirm what we read in 
Strabo 5 , Diodorus 6 7 , and Lucian 1 , that lrom the 
(2) By Charles Kelsall, Esq. of Trinity College , Cambridge, who, 
(luring )i' is travels in this country, pursued the author’s route, with 
unabated zeal, and with enterprise which was only subdued by the 
sacrifice of bis health. 
(3) Lib. xvi. cap. 52. 
(4) Demnsthen. Orat. p. 34. eel. Reishe, 
(5) Lib. xi. p. 758. 
(6) Lib • xx. cap. 22. 
(7) In Alacr ob. cap. xvii. p. 123. 
