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 B. vii. c. iv. $ 7. THE CRIMEA. 479 Tlie.jiame of|Georgi, or husbandmen^ was appropriately given TO these people, to distinguish 'them from the nations situated above them, who are nomade 1 ^ and live upon the flesh of horses and other animals, on cheese of mares' milk, rnilkj and sour milk. The latter, preparecTin a peculiar man- ner, is a delicacy? Hence the poet designates all the nations in that quarter as Galactophagi, milk-eaters. The nomades are more disposed to war than to robbery. The occasion of their contests was to enforce the payment of tribute. They permit those to have land who are willing to cultivate it. In return for the use of the land, they are satis- fied with receiving a settled and moderate tribute, not such as will furnish superfluities, but the daily necessaries of life. If this tribute is not paid, the nomades declare war. Hence the poet calls these people both just, and miserable, (Abii,) a for if the tribute is regularly paid, they do not have recourse to war. Payment is not made by those, who have confidence in their ability to repel attacks with ease, and to prevent the incursion of their enemies. This course was pursued, as Hypsicrates relates, by Ansander, who fortified on the isth- mus of the Chersonesus, at the Palus Maeotis, a space of 360 stadia, and erected towers at the distance of every 10 stadia. 3 The Georgi (husbandmen) are considered to be more civil- ized and~mHa r in~their manners than the other tribes in tnis quarterpbirrthey are addicted to gain. They navigate the sea, and do not abstain from piracy, nor from similar acts of injustice and rapacity. 7. Besides the places in the Chersonesus already enumer- ated, there are the fortresses Palacium, and Chabum, and Neapolis, 4 which Scilurus and his sons constructed, from which they sallied out against the generals of Mithridates. There was also a fortress called Eupatoriurn, built by Diophantus, one of the generals of Mithridates. 5 105th Olympiad, (about 36LB._c.,) and of which Demosthenes speaks in a manner to give us to understand, that the quantity sent that year by Leucon greatly exceeded that of former years. A very probable con- jecture. F. T. The medimnus was about 1| bushel. 1 fyrma. '* a ft love. 3 I have adopted the reading suggested by the F. T., Ilwpyovc KaQ' fK(t(TTct iiTaSia StKa. The wall of Ansander may still be traced. Pallas. to be the modern Balaklava. 5 Named after Mithridates Eupator. Koslof, now again Eupatoria.
 * Places to me unknown. G. Pallas erroneously supposes Palacium