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76 is reckoned by Arrian to be 350 tadia, or 43.75 Greek miles, or about 40 Englih miles ditant from Diocurias. Strabo agrees nearly herewith, as he makes it 360 tadia, a trifling difference from the calculation of Arrian. There is a place of nearly the ame name till on this coat, but it appears much farther to the north than the ituation decribed by Arrian. It probably derived its name from the pine-trees, which till grow in great plenty throughout all that country. It is called by Strabo "the great Pityus," and by Pliny, "oppidum opulentiimum," probably from its haring with Diocurias in the trade of the Eat.

Arrian peaks of Diocurias as the boundary of the Roman Empire, Whereas Theodoret, who lived in the fifth century, and at leat 300 years later than Arrian, and when the Empire was in a declining tate, mentions Pityus as the frontier place. It was regarded in till later times as a fortres only, and both this place and Sebatopolis are conidered in that light by Procopius, and in the Preface to the 28th Contitution of the Novels of Jutinian.

From Pityus to Nitica 150 tadia. Beyond Pityus, Theodoret repreents the people, as ferociouly avage, and this is probable from Arrian's account of them, as Nitica was the reort or the reidence of the Scythian Phthirophagi, or Lice-eaters. Arrian eems to cat an oblique cenure on Herodotus, for his account of thee people; but they are mentioned both by Strabo and by Pliny, without