[338] Polybius, IV. 38, 44, 45. [339] Aristotle, _Politics_, VI. 4, § 1.--Ælian, _Various Histories_, III. 14. [340] Strabo, VII. vi. § 2; XII. iii. § 11. [341] Cicero, _Oration for the Law Manilia_, vi. [342] Plutarch, _Sylla_, xxv. [343] Especially the fish called _pelamydes_, objects of research throughout Greece. (Strabo, VII. vi. § 2; XII. iii. § 11, § 19.) [344] Strabo, XII. iii. § 19. [345] Strabo, XII. iii. § 13. Gadilonitis extended to the south-west of Amisus (_Samsoun_). [346] Polybius, V. 44, 55.--Ezekiel xxvii. 13, 14. [347] Xenophon, _Retreat of the Ten Thousand_, V. v. 34.--Homer, _Iliad_, II. 857. [348] Strabo, XII. iii. § 19. [349] There passed in the procession a statue of gold of the King of Pontus, six feet high, with his shield set with precious stones, twenty stands covered with vases of silver, thirty-two others full of vases of gold, with arms of the same metal, and with gold coinage; these stands were carried by men followed by eight mules loaded with golden beds, and after whom came fifty-six others carrying ingots of silver, and a hundred and seven carrying all the silver money, amounting to 2,700,000 drachmas (2,619,000 francs [£104,760]). (Plutarch, _Lucullus_, xxxvii.) [350] Plutarch, _Lucullus_, xxiii. [351] Strabo, XII. iii. § 13, 14. [352] Appian, _War against Mithridates_, lxxviii. [353] Plutarch, _Lucullus_, xiv. [354] See what is reported by Plutarch (_Lucullus_, xxix.) of the riches and objects of art of every species with which Tigranocerta was crammed. [355] Appian, _Wars of Mithridates_, xiii. p. 658; xv. p. 662; xvii. p. 664. [356] Appian, _Wars of Mithridates_, xvii. 664. Lesser Armenia furnished 1,000 horsemen. Mithridates had a hundred and thirty chariots armed with scythes. [357] Strabo, XII. iv. § 2.--Stephanus Byzantinus, under the word Νικομἡδειον.--Pliny, _Natural History_, V. xxxii. 149. [358] Strabo, XII. iii. § 6. [359] Appian, _Wars of Mithridates_, xvii. [360] Strabo, XII. v. § 7. [361] Strabo (XII. v. § 3) tells us that Pessinus was the greatest mart of the province. [362] Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 23. [363] Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 26. [364] Diodorus Siculus, XVIII. 16. [365] Strabo, XII. ii. § 10. [366] About 3,500,000 francs [£140,000]. (Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 37.) See Appian, _Wars of Syria_, xlii.--“Demetrius obtained soon afterwards a thousand talents (5,821,000 francs [£232,840]) from Olophernes for having established him on the throne of Cappadocia.” (Appian, _Wars of Syria_, xlvii.) [367] Strabo, XII. ii. 7, 8. [368] Falkener, _Ephesus_: London, 1862. [369] _Natural History_, V. xxx. 126. [370] It was thence that the fleets of the kings of Pergamus put to sea. (Titus Livius, XXXVIII. 40; XLIV. 28.)