TO CONSTANTINOPLE. 
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Herodotus, Demosthenes, Polybius, Arrian, Proco- CI ™ P - 
pius, Marcianus, and by Dionysius of Byzantium ; 1 , 
some of whom expressly declare that it was 
used to signify the Temple of Jupiter Urius 4 : on 
which account writers maintain, that it was 
from this temple Darius surveyed the Euxine, 
as mentioned bv Herodotus ; but Herodotus does Probable 
J r , . Situation of 
not specify the name of the fane, whence the Darius 
prospect was afforded. The fact is, that the surveyed 
Hieron was not a single temple, but a town and ibl - £,u,ne ' 
a port, containing a fane of great sanctity 
within its district, situate upon the Asiatic side 
of the Bosporus \ “ The Thracian Bosporus ,” ob- 
serves Polybius 4 5 6 , “ is ended at a place called 
Hieron; in which Jason, at his return from 
Colchis, is said first to have offered sacrifice to 
(4) The author has endeavoured to collect and compare the refe- 
rences ; but the Reader may find yet other authorities. Herodot. Mel - 
pom. 85 ; Demosth. in Oral. adv. Polyclem, et in al. loc. ( Vid . Taylor 
in Prtrfat. Comment, ad L. Decemv. p. 7, tfc.); Arrian. Peripl. Pont. 
Eux. ad Jinem ; Procop. de /F.dif. Justinian, lib. ix. ; Marcian. Hera- 
cleot. edit. Oxon.; Gcogr. Pel. Script. Minor, p. 69 ; Polyb. Hist. lib. iv.; 
Dionys. Jlyzant. apud Gyll. lib. iii. c. 5. Of this number Arrian and 
Marcianus state, that the Hieron was so called from the temple of 
Jupiter Urius. Dionysius of Byzantium says, it was a fane built by 
Phryxus, in his voyage to Colchis. It is not easy to reconcile the 
account given by Herodotus with the common notions of the situation of 
the temple, or with the position of the modern town of Joro, or Joron, 
at the mouth of the Strait ; since, according to Herodotus, the Hieron, 
at which Darius sat, might have been one of the Cyanean Isles. 
(5) Its name is still preserved in the appellation of a modern town, 
Joro, or Joron. 
(6) Polybius, lib. iv. c.5. The passage is given from Hampton . 
