[119] In Roumania.

[120] Ferrata. Cp. ii. [83].

[121] This little kingdom west of Trebizond was left to Rome by Polemo II, a.d. 63. Nero made it a Roman province under the name of Pontus Polemoniacus.

[122] Trebizond.

[123] Mucianus had 'ordered the fleet to move from Pontus to Byzantium' (ii. [83]). This leads some editors to change the text, and others to suppose that a few ships were left behind.

[124] Literally, arched boats. Tacitus describes somewhat similar craft in Germania, 44.

[125] The Khopi, which flows from the Caucasus into the Euxine.

[126] Cp. chap. [8].

[127] Africa came next to Egypt in importance as a Roman granary (cp. i. [73]).