[2841] It does not appear that the site of any of these cities has been identified. Charax was a general name for a fortified town.
[2842] Mentioned again by Pliny in B. vi. c. 7. Solinus says that in order to repel avarice, the Satarchæ prohibited the use of gold and silver.
[2843] On the site of the modern Perekop, more commonly called Orkapi.
[2844] Or Chersonesus of the Heracleans. The town of Kosleve or Eupatoria is supposed to stand on its site.
[2845] After the conquest of Mithridates, when the whole of these regions fell into the hands of the Romans.
[2846] The modern Felenk-burun. So called from the Parthenos or Virgin Diana or Artemis, whose temple stood on its heights, in which human sacrifices were offered to the goddess.
[2847] Supposed to be the same as the now-famed port of Balaklava.
[2848] The modern Aia-burun, the great southern headland of the Crimea. According to Plutarch, it was called by the natives Brixaba, which, like the name Criumetopon, meant the “Ram’s Head.”
[2849] Now Kerempi, a promontory of Paphlagonia in Asia Minor. Strabo considers this promontory and that of Criumetopon as dividing the Euxine into two seas.
[2850] According to Strabo, the sea-line of the Tauric Chersonesus, after leaving the port of the Symboli, extended 125 miles, as far as Theodosia. Pliny would here seem to make it rather greater.