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 484- HISTORY OF GREECE. known) extent, reacliing to somewhere near the borders of Cau- casus.^ Parisades I, on his death left three sons — Satyrus, Pr}'tanis, and Eumelus. Satyrus, as the eldest, succeeded ; but Eumelus claimed the crown, sought aid without, and prevailed on various neighbors — among them a powerful Thracian king named Ario- pharnes — to espouse his cause. At the head of an army said to consist of 20,000 horse and 22,000 foot, the two allies marched to attack the territories of Satyrus, who advanced to meet them, with 2000 Grecian mercenaries, and 2000 Thracians of his own, reinforced by a numerous body of Scythian allies — 20,000 foot, and 10,000 horse, and carrying with him a plentiful supply of provisions in waggons. He gained a complete victory, compel- ling Eumelus and Ariophai'nes to retreat and seek refuge in the regal residence of the latter, near the river Thapsis ; a fortress built of timber, and surrounded with forest, river, marsh, and rock, so as to be very difficult of approach. Satyrus, having first plundered the country around, which supplied a rich booty of prisoners and cattle, proceeded to assail his enemies in their almost impracticable position. But though he, and Meniskus his general of mercenaries, made the most strenuous eiforts, and even carried some of the outworks, they were repulsed from the fortress itself; and Satyrus, exposing himself forwardly to extri- cate Meniskus, received a wound of which he shortly died — af- ter a reign of nine months. Meniskus, raising the siege, with- drew the army to Gargaza ; from whence he conveyed back the regal corpse to Pantikapaeum.- ' This boundary is attested in anotlier Inscription No. 2104, of the same collection. Inscription No. 2103, seems to indicate Arcadian mercenaries in the service of Leukon : about the mercenaries, see Diodor. xx. 22. Parisades I. is said to liave been worshipped as a god, after his death (Strabo, vii.p. 310). ran pretend to make it out from the brief and superficial narrative of Diodorus), seems to have been on the European side of Bosporus ; some- where between the Bor3-sthenes river and the Isthmus of Perekop, in the territory called by Herodotus Hylaa. This is Niebuhr's opinion, which I tliink more probable than that of Boeckh, who supposes the operations to have occurred on the Asiatic territory of Bo^p'irus. So far I concur with
 * Dodor. x.K. 24. The scene of these military operations (as far as we