[1130] Ak-Liman.
[1131] B. vii. c. vi. § 2.
[1132] The eunuch Bacchides, or Bacchus, according to others, whom Mithridates, after despairing of success, commissioned with the order for his women to die. Plutarch, Life of Lucullus.
[1133] Probably a celestial globe constructed by Billarus, or on the principles of Billarus, a person otherwise unknown. Strabo mentions, b. ii. c. v. § 10, the Sphere of Crates, Cicero the Sphere of Archimedes and of Posidonius. History speaks of several of these spheres, among others of that of Ptolemy and Aratus. Leontinus, a mechanician of the sixth century, explains the manner in which this last was constructed.
[1134] Lucullus, upon his entry into Sinope, put to death 8000 Cilicians whom he found there. The rest of the inhabitants, after having set fire to the town, carried with them the statue of Autolycus, the founder of Sinope, the work of Sthenis; but not having time to put it on board ship, it was left on the sea-shore. Autolycus was one of the companions of Hercules in his expedition against the Amazons. Sthenis, as well as his brother Lysistratus, was a celebrated statuary; he was a native of Olynthus and a contemporary of Alexander the Great.
[1135] The temple of Jupiter Urius near Chalcedon.
[1136] He was also the author of a History of the Tyrants of Ephesus. Athenæus, b. vi. c. 59, p. 395, Bohn’s Class. Library.
[1137] ἀπὸ τῶν ἁλῶν
[1138] B. iv. c. iv. § 3.
[1139] ζόρκες