Page:Arrian's Voyage Round the Euxine Sea Translated.djvu/10

Rh than five hundred tadia. At this place five cohorts are tationed, to whom we delivered their pay, and inpected their arms, the walls, and the ditch, their ick, and their preent tock of proviions. My report concerning thee ubjects has been already written in the Latin language. Aparus, it is aid, formerly bore the name of Apyrtus, from the peron who was murdered by Medea, and whoe epulchre is till hewn there. Its preent name was corrupted by the Barbarians from the ancient one, as has taken place in many other intances. Thus they ay, that Tyana in Cappadocia was called, about the time alluded to, Thoana, from Thoas, King of the Tauri; who, it is reported, came thither in puruit of Pylades and Oretes, and their companions, and died there of ome dieae.

The rivers, which we paed ince our departure from Trapezus, are as follows.

The Hyus, from which the port of that name is called, is ditant from Trapezus an hundred and eighty tadia.

The Ophis; which is ditant from the port of Hyus, at mot, ninety tadia, and eparates the country of Colchis from that of Thyana.

The Pychrus; ditant from the Ophis about thirty tadia.

The Calus; ditant from the Pychrus thirty tadia.

The Rhizius lies alo in the neighbourhood of the Pychrus, and is ditant from the Calus an hundred and twenty tadia.

From the Rhizius to the Acurus the ditance is thirty tadia.

From the Acurus to the Adienus ixty tadia.

From the Adienus to Athenæ an hundred and eighty tadia.

The river Zagatis lies at mot only even tadia from Athenæ. In