[Footnote 364:  Artemis was so called from a town Priapus, which is on the south coast of the Propontis, and is placed in the maps a little west of the outlet of the Granikus.  Strabo (p. 587) says that the Granikus flows between the AEsepus and Priapus; and that some say that Priapus was a Milesian colony, others a colony of Kyzikus.  It derived its name from the god Priapus, who was in great repute here and in Lampsakus.  The soldiers of Mithridates seem to have committed the excesses spoken of by Plutarch in their march through Priapus to Lampsakus.

The word for wooden statue is [Greek:  xoanon] which is sometimes simply translated statue.  I am not aware that it is ever used by Pausanias, who often uses the word, in any other sense than that of a statue of wood.]

[Footnote 365:  The Thermodon is a river of Asia Minor which flows through the plain of Themiskyra into the Black Sea.  There is now a small town, Thermeh, on the left bank of the river.  Plutarch might be supposed to be speaking of a town Themiskyra, and so some persons have understood him; but perhaps incorrectly, for no town Themiskyra is mentioned by any other writer.]

[Footnote 366:  Amisus, now Samsun, is on the coast of the Black Sea, between the Halys, Kizil Ermak, and the Iris, Yechil Ermak.  The ruins of the old town are about a mile and a half N.N.W. of the modern town.  “The pier which defended the ancient harbour may be distinctly traced, running out about 300 yards to the S.E., but chiefly under water.  It consists of large blocks of a volcanic conglomerate, some of which measure nineteen feet by six or eight, and ten feet in thickness; whilst a little farther north another wall extends E.N.E. to a natural reef of rocks.” (Hamilton, Researches in Asia Minor, &c. i. 290.)]

[Footnote 367:  These tribes were in the neighbourhood of the Thermodon.  They were encountered by the Ten Thousand in their retreat (Anab. v. 5).  The Chaldaeans, whom Xenophon names Chalybes, were neighbours of the Tibareni:  but he also speaks of another tribe of the same name (iv. 5, &c.) who lived on the borders of Armenia.]

[Footnote 368:  The great mountain region between the Black Sea and the Caspian.]

[Footnote 369:  The position of Kabeira is uncertain.  Strabo (p. 556) says that it is about 150 stadia south of the Paryadres range; but he does not say that it is on the Lykus.  It may be collected from the following chapter of Plutarch that it was near the Lykus.  Pompeius made Kabeira a city and named it Diopolis.  A woman named Pythodoris added to it and called it Sebaste, that is, in Latin, Augusta, and it was her royal residence at the time when Strabo wrote.]

[Footnote 370:  The reign of Tigranes in Armenia began about B.C. 96.  Little is known of his early history.  He become King of Syria about B.C. 83, and thus he supplanted the kings, the descendants of Seleukus.  He lost Syria after his defeat by Lucullus, B.C. 69; and he was finally reduced to the limits of his native kingdom by Pompeius, B.C. 66. (See the Life of Pompeius, c. 23.)]