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Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley) | 80 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Polybius, Histories | 76 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Cornelius Tacitus, The History (ed. Alfred John Church, William Jackson Brodribb) | 20 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Vitruvius Pollio, The Ten Books on Architecture (ed. Morris Hicky Morgan) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Xenophon, Anabasis (ed. Carleton L. Brownson) | 16 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Tullius Cicero, Orations, Three orations on the Agrarian law, the four against Catiline, the orations for Rabirius, Murena, Sylla, Archias, Flaccus, Scaurus, etc. (ed. C. D. Yonge) | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Diodorus Siculus, Library | 12 | 0 | Browse | Search |
E. T. Merrill, Commentary on Catullus (ed. E. T. Merrill) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
M. Annaeus Lucanus, Pharsalia (ed. Sir Edward Ridley) | 10 | 0 | Browse | Search |
Richard Hakluyt, The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques, and Discoveries of the English Nation | 8 | 0 | Browse | Search |
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The Black Sea
The sea called "The Pontus" has a circumference of
The Pontus.
twenty-two thousand stades, and two mouths
diametrically oppositPontus.
twenty-two thousand stades, and two mouths
diametrically opposite to each other, the one
opening into the Propontis and the other into the Maeotic
Lake; which latter also has itself a circumference of eightpean; and so the
Maeotic lake, as it gets filled up, flows into the Pontus,
and the Pontus into the Propontis. The mouth of the
Maeotic lake iPontus into the Propontis. The mouth of the
Maeotic lake is called the Cimmerian Bosporus, about
thirty stades broad and sixty long, and shallow all over; that
of the Pontus is called the Thracian Bos is the entrance at the end nearest the
Propontis. Coming from the Pontus, it begins at a place
called Hieron, at which they say that Jason oount
for the fact that the waters, both of the Maeotic lake and the
Pontus, continually flow outwards. One is patent at once to
every observering and continuous.
These are the true causes of the outflow of the Pontus,
which do not depend for their credit on the stories of
merchants,
Flow of the Danube into the Black Sea
For the Danube discharging itself into the Pontus by
several mouths, we find opposite it a bank formed by the mud
discharged from these mouths extending for nearly a thousand
stades, at a distance of a day's sail from the shore as it now exists;
upon which ships sailing to the Pontus run, while apparently still
in deep water, and find themselves unexpectedly stranded on
the sandbanks which the sailors call the Breasts. That this
deposit is not close to the Pontus run, while apparently still
in deep water, and find themselves unexpectedly stranded on
the sandbanks which the sailors call the Breasts. That this
deposit is not close to the shore, but projected to some distance,
must be accounted for thus: exactly as far as the currents of
the rivers retain their force from the strength of the descending
stream, and overpower that of the sea, it must of course follow
that to that distance the earth, and whatever else is carried
down by the rivers, would be projected, and neither settle nor
become fixed until it is reached. But when the force of the
currents has become quite spent by the depth and bulk of the
sea, it is but natural
The Byzantines Institute a Toll
Now this exaction by the Byzantines of a duty upon
The Byzantines levy a toll.
goods brought from the Pontus, being a
heavy loss and burden to everybody, was
universally regarded as a grievance; and accordingly an appeal from all those engaged in the trade was
made to the Rhodians, as acknowledged masters of the sea:
and it was from this circumstance that the war originated of
which I am about to speak.
For the Rhodians, roused to action by the loss incurredThe Rhodians declare war, B. C. 220.
by themselves, as well as that of their
neighbours, at first joined their allies in an
embassy to Byzantium, and demanded the
abolition of the impost. The Byzantines refused compliance, being persuaded that they were in the right by the
arguments advanced by their chief magistrates, Hecatorus and
Olympidorus, in their interview with the ambassadors. The
Rhodian envoys accordingly departed without effecting their
object. But upon their return home, war was at once