[2702] The Gulf of Perecop, called also Olou-Degniz. Gossellin.
[2703] The Isthmus of Perecop, which connects the Peninsula of Crimea, the ancient Taurica Chersonesus.
[2704] The Strait of Zabache, or Iéni-Kalé.
[2705] Panticapæum, now Kertsch or Wospor in Europe.
[2706] Phanagoria was on the Asiatic coast of the Bosphorus.
[2707] We entirely agree with Kramer in favouring Coray’s emendation of πλοῦν for πηλόν, the reading of MSS.
[2708] Herodotus, book iv. chap. 53, says this fishing was carried on in the Dnieper. Ælian, de Natur. Animal. book xiv. chap. 26, refers it to the Danube.
[2709] Strabo has before alluded to this fact, book ii. chap. i. § 16, p. 114.
[2710] Lucian, in Macrob. § 10, spells his name Anteas, and relates that he was killed in this war when upwards of 90 years of age.
[2711] Father of Alexander the Great.