ancient harbour may be distinctly traced,
running out about 300 yards to the S.E., but chiefly under water. It
consists of large blocks of a volcanic conglomerate, some of which
measure nineteen feet by six or eight, and ten feet in thickness;
whilst a little farther north another wall extends E.N.E. to a natural
reef of rocks." (Hamilton, _Researches in Asia Minor_, &c. i. 290.)]

[Footnote 367: These tribes were in the neighbourhood of the
Thermodon. They were encountered by the Ten Thousand in their retreat
(_Anab._ v. 5). The Chaldaeans, whom Xenophon names Chalybes, were
neighbours of the Tibareni: but he also speaks of another tribe of the
same name (iv. 5, &c.) who lived on the borders of Armenia.]

[Footnote 368: The great mountain region between the Black Sea and the
Caspian.]

[Footnote 369: The position of Kabeira is uncertain. Strabo (p. 556)
says that it is about 150 stadia south of the Paryadres range; but he
does not say that it is on the Lykus. It may be collected from the
following chapter of Plutarch that it was near the Lykus. Pompeius
made Kabeira a city and named it Diopolis. A woman named Pythodoris
added to it and called it Sebaste, that is, in Latin, Augusta, and it
was her royal residence at the time when Strabo wrote.]

[Footnote 370: The reign of Tigranes in Armenia began about B.C. 96.
Little is known of his early history. He become King of Syria about
B.C. 83, and thus he supplanted the kings, the descendants of
Seleukus. He lost Syria after his defeat by Lucullus, B.C. 69; and he
was finally reduced to the limits of his native kingdom by Pompeius,
B.C. 66. (See the Life of Pompeius, c. 23.)]

[Footnote 371: Some writers read Dardarii. The Dandarii are mentioned
by Strabo (p. 495) as one of the tribes on the Maeotis or Sea of Azoff.
Mithridates held the parts on the Bosporus. Appian (_Mithridat. War_,
c. 79) has this story of Olthakus, whom he names Olkades, but he calls
him a Scythian.]

[Footnote 372: The strange panic that seized Mithridates is also
described by Appian (_Mithridat. War_, c. 81). He fled to Comana and
thence to Tigranes.]

[Footnote 373: _Phernakia_ or Pharnakia, as it is generally read, is a
town in Pontus on the coast of the Black Sea. It is generally assumed
that Pharnakia was the same as Kerasus mentioned by Xenophon in the
Retreat of the Ten Thousand, and the place being now called Kerasunt
seems to establish this. Arrian in his Periplus of the Euxine states