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 96 STRABO. nia, according to Apollodorus, by the Araxes, 1 but rather by the Cyrus 2 and Moschican mountains. 3 ' The expedition of the Egyptians into Ethiopia 4 and Colchis. The migration of the Heneti, 5 who passed from Paphlagonia into the country I bordering on the Adriatic Gulf. Similar ennVratipns were also undertaken by the nations of Greece, tTuTlonians, Dorians, Achaians, and .^Eolians ; and thlT^Enians, 6 now next neighbours ttTtHe jEtolians, formerly dwelt nealrTDotium 7 and Ossa, beyond the Perrhsebi ; 8 ffie~" PerrhaelSI too are but wanderers here theroselves. Our present work furnishes, numerous instances of the same kind. Some of these are familiar to most readers, but the migrations of the Carians. the Treres, the_Teucrians, and" the jjjatae^or Gauls, 9 are not so generally known. Nor yet for ~tne mosTparT are the expeditions of their chiefs, for instance, Madys the__^ythian, Tearko the Ethiopian, Cobus of Trerus, Sesostris and Psammeticus the Egyptians ; uoj^are those of the Persians from Cyrus to Xerxes familiar to every one. The Kimmerians, or a~separ"ate tribe of them, called the Treres, have frequently overrun the countries to the right of the Euxine and those adjacent to them, bursting now into Paphlagonia, now into Phrjgia, as they did when, according to report, Midas 1 came to his death by drinking bull's blood. Lygdamis lecl his followers into Lydia, passed througlTTonia, jtoojTj-Jardis, but was slain in Cilicia. The Kioomerians and jTreres frequently made similaFlncursions, until at last, as it is reported, these latter, togetherlvTtlTftheir chief] Cobus, were 1 The river Aras. 2 The river Kur. 3 The mountains which border Colchis or Mingrelia on the south. who ever reigned in Ethiopia. Pliny says he penetrated as far as the promontory of Mosylon. 5 Veneti. 6 A small people of Thessaly, who latterly dwelt near Mount CEta, which separated them from ^Etolia and Phocis. A city and plahijnjrjiessaly, near to Mount Ossa. Lacedon, at the time of Strabo dwelling north of the river ' 9 Few nations have wandered so far and wide as the Galatse. We meet with them in Europe, Asia, and Africa, under the various names of Galatae, Galatians, Gauls, and Kelts. Galatia, in Asia Minor, was settled by one of these hordes. 10 There were many kings of Phrygia of this name.
 * According to Herodotus, Sesostris was the only Egyptian monarch