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86 From Itria to Tomi 300 tadia. This is et down in the Peutingerian Tables at 40 Greek miles, equal to 320 tadia, agreeing nearly with Arrian. Antoninus°s Itinerary makes it to be 36 miles, or 288 tadia, which approaches till nearer to Arrian. Strabo makes it to be only 250 tadia, or 313 Greek miles. From the mouth of the river, on which Vitwar is ituated, to Baba, or Tomiwar, is, by Laurie and Whittle's chart, 34 Englih miles, equal to 37 Greek miles nearly, and very near 300 tadia. Tomi eems to have been a more coniderable place at the time the Peutingerian Tables were contructed, than it was in that of Ovid. Hoffman ays, in his Lexicon, that there is a lake there, which in its name (Ouvido Jezeoro) carries ome memorial of that poet. The name of Tomi bears, according to Ovid, a tetimony repecting the Argonautic expedition. Perhaps Tomi might have become more coniderable after the removal of the imperial feat to Contantinople, from its neighbourhood to that city.

From Tomi to Callantra 300 tadia. This appears to be the Callatis of other authors. Strabo makes this ditance to be 280 tadia, or 35 Greek miles. The Peutingerian Tables make it to be 34 Greek miles, equal to 272 tadia. The Itinerary makes it 30 Greek miles, or 240 tadia. The ditance from Tomi to Callatis is, in D'Anville's map, about 280 tadia. In Arrowmith's chart, the