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1 The peninsula on which Taman or Timoutarakan is situate.
2 The jugerum was 100 Grecian or 104 Roman feet in length.
3 Signifying in Greek the "sea-shore."
4 Lying between Singa and Phanagoria. Rennell fixes it at the opening of the lake into which the Kouban flows.
5 Or the "gardens," from the Greek κῆποι. A town of the Cimmerian Bosporus, founded by the Milesians. Dr. Clarke identifies the modern Sienna with it, and the curious Milesian sculptures found there confirm the supposition.
6 Its ruins are supposed to be those near Taman, on the eastern side of the Straits of Kaffa. It was the great emporium for all the traffic between the coasts of the Palus Mæotis and the countries on the south of the Caucasus, and was chosen by the kings of Bosporus as their capital in Asia.
7 A town of the Sindæ; it possessed, like Phanagoria, a celebrated temple of Aphrodite Apaturos, or Venus "the Deceiver," whence probably its name.
8 Clarke identifies it with the modern Temruk, but Forbiger with Eskikrimm.
9 See B. iv. c. 24.
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