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68 to be 50 tadia. Sinope was a colony of the Mileians, and the mot famous of any of the cities on the Euxine ea. It was the birth-place and reidence of Mithridates Eupator, who made it the capital city of Pontus. It was ituated upon the ithmus of a peninula, about ix miles in circuit, and terminating in a coniderable cape, or head-land. It is mentioned by Apollonius and by Valerius Flaccus, as ubiting in the time of the Argonauts. It had two ports, one on each ide of the ithmus, and was remarkable for its tunny fihery. The city, and particularly the uburbs, Were very magnificent, and ornamented with a gymnaium, a forum, and uperb porticos. The land urrounding it was fertile, and uited both to gardens and agriculture. It was once a eat of learning, and of arts, being the birth-place of Diogenes, the Cynic philoopher; and Strabo mentions the Sphere of Billarus the atronomer, which was taken away from  city by Lucullus. Both Strabo and Plutarch mentions a celebrated tatue, by the culptor Sthenis, of Autolycus, Who was one of the companions of Hercules, and, as Strabo thinks, one of the Argonauts, and the founder of Sinope, which tatue was carried away by Lucullus. Tournefort, who was at Sinope, concurs exactly with Strabo in his account of this place. Its preent trade conits of alted fih, particularly young tunnies, as in former ages. Stadia.

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