[Footnote 203:  The kingdom of Bosporus was a long narrow slip on the south-east coast of the peninsula now called the Crimea or Taurida.  The name Bosporus was properly applied to the long narrow channel, now called the Straits of Kaffa or Yenikale, which unites the Black Sea and the Maeotis or Sea of Azoff.  Bosporus was also a name of Pantikapaeum, one of the chief towns of the Bosporus.  There was a series of Greek kings of the Bosporus, extending from B.C. 430 to B.C. 304, whose names are known; and there may have been others.  In the time of Demosthenes, in the fourth century before the Christian aera, the Athenians imported annually a large quantity of corn from the Bosporus.  This was the country that now belonged to Mithridates. (Penny Cyclopaedia, article “Bosporus.")]

[Footnote 204:  Kaltwasser conjectures that the son who is first mentioned was Mithridates, and he remarks that Appian (Mithridatic War, c. 64) calls him also Mithridates.  But in place of the name Ariarathes, he reads Aciarathes, whom he makes to be the same as the Arcathias of Appian (c. 35).  Ariarathes however was a son of Mithridates (Mithridatic War, 15); and according to Appian, it was a son Mithridates who held Pontus and the Bosporus.  Ariarathes and Arcathias assisted their father in the war in Asia.]

[Footnote 205:  This Archelaus was a native of Cappadocia, and probably of Greek stock.  His name often occurs afterwards. (See “Archelaus,” Biograph.  Dict. of the Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.)]

[Footnote 206:  The promontory of Malea, now Cape St. Angelo, is the most south-eastern point of the Peloponnesus.  The expression of Plutarch is, “all the islands situated within Malea,” by which he means all the islands of the Archipelago which are east of Malea, including the Cyclades, or the group which lies in somewhat of a circular form round the small rocky island of Delos.]

[Footnote 207:  His name is Brettius in the MSS. of Plutarch.  His Roman name is Bruttius, as Appian (Mithridat.  War, i. 29) writes it.  He took the island of Skiathus, where the enemy deposited their plunder; he hanged the slaves that he found there, and cut off the hands of the freemen.  Caesar, when he was in Gaul, cut off the hands of all the persons who had assisted in the defence of Uxellodunum against the Romans, according to the author of the eighth book of the Gallic War (viii. 44).]

[Footnote 208:  See the Life of Lucullus.]

[Footnote 209:  He is called Athenion by Athenaeus.  His father was an Athenian citizen; his mother was an Egyptian woman.  His political career began with his being sent by the Athenians on an embassy to Mithridates, and he ultimately persuaded the Athenians to join the king.  This is the account of Posidonius as quoted by Athenaeus (v. 211, &c. ed.  Casaub.) Appian (Mithridatic War, 28, &c.) gives an account of his making himself a tyrant in Athens, which is