on the ram with the golden fleece, the gift of Hermes, through the air. Helle fell into the sea, which was afterwards called, after her, the Hellespont. Smith, art. Phrixus.
[950] The son of Menodotus by a daughter of Adobogion, a descendant of the tetrarchs of Galatia. He was the personal friend of Cæsar, who at the commencement of the Alexandrian war (B. C. 48) sent him into Syria and Cilicia to raise auxiliary forces. Smith, art. Mithridates, and see B. xiii. c. iv. § 3.
[951] Eurip. Troad. 26.
[952] σκηπτουχίας.
[953] Casaubon would read Corax.--The Sukum.
[954] Adopting Kramer’s proposed reading, ἔνιοι in place of εἰ μὴ.
[955] The Arak.
[956] In the English map, reduced from the Russian military map, there are two rivers Alasan, flowing in contrary directions from M. Bebala. The modern names of the other rivers here mentioned are not well ascertained.
[957] Tchorocsu.
[958] Ilori.
[959] Probably the Alasan flowing from M. Bebala.
[960] Akalziche.
[961] The Aras.
[962] Strabo mentions the Gelæ again, c. vii. § 1, but in a manner which does not agree with what he here says of their position. We must perhaps suppose that this people, in part at least, have changed their place of residence, and that now the greater part of their descendants are to be found in Ghilan, under the name of Gelé, or Gelaki. The name of Leges, or Legæ, who have continued to occupy these regions, is recognised in that of Legi, Leski. Gossellin.
[963] The Mermadalis seems to be the same river called below by Strabo Mermodas. Critics and modern travellers differ respecting its present name. One asserts that it is the Marubias, or Marabias, of Ptolemy, another takes it to be the Manitsch, called in Austrian maps Calaus. Others believe it to be the small stream Mermedik, which flows into the Terek. Others again recognise the Mermadalis in the Egorlik. Gossellin.
[964] Unknown. Pallas thought that he had discovered their name in that of the Tscherkess, who occupied the country where Strabo places the Gargarenses, and might be their descendants.
[965] The same river probably before called the Mermadalis.
[966] This sentence has been supposed by some critics to be an interpolation. Strabo above, c. ii. § 1, has already spoken of the Siraci, who would seem to have been the inhabitants of Siracena, and may sometimes have been called Siraceni. In c. ii. § 11, he speaks of the Sittaceni, and assigns them a position which would indicate them as a different people from the Seraci, or Siraceni. Gossellin.
[967] Groskurd reads ἀπορία, want, instead of εὐπορία, plenty.
[968] Χαμαικοῖται People who lie on the ground.
[969] Panxani, Paxani, Penzani.
[970] The text is here corrupt.
[971] The country occupied by the Cadusii of whom Eratosthenes speaks appears to have been the Ghilan, a name probably derived from the Gelæ, who are constantly associated with the Cadusii.
[972] The Gihon.
[973] The Sihon.
[974] i. e. the Hyperboreans above the Adriatic, the Sauromatæ above the Danube, and the Arimaspi above the Euxine.
[975] The name Sacæ is to be traced in Sakita, a district on the confines of those of Vash and Gil, situated on the north of the Gihon or Oxus, consequently in ancient Sogdiana. D’Anville.
[976] C. viii. § 2.
[977] At ubi cœpit in latitudinem pandi lunatis obliquatur cornibus. Pliny, N. H.
[978] See b. ii. c. i. § 14.
[979] These names have here probably undergone some change. Talabroce may be the Tambrace or Tembrax of Polybius; Samariane, the Soconax of Ptolemy; Carta, Zadra-Carta; and Tape, the Syrinx of Polybius.
[980] The text is here corrupt.
[981] About 7 gallons.
[982] About 12 gallons.
[983] B. ii. c. i. § 14.
[984] πεύκη.
[985] ἐλάτη.
[986] πίτυς.
[987] The country here spoken of appears to be that celebrated from the earliest times for its breed of horses to which the epithet Nesæan was applied by ancient writers. See c. xiii. § 7.
[988] The modern name is uncertain.