Kitap 22
8.12
Over this vast space are scattered cities of the Greeks, all of which, with a few exceptions, were founded at varying periods by the Milesians, who were themselves colonists of the Athenians. The Milesians in much earlier times were established among other Ionians in Asia by Nileus, the son of that Codrus who (they say) sacrificed himself for his country in the Dorian war.Cf. Hdt. v. 76; Val. Max. ii. 6, ext. 1.
8.13
Now the tips of the bow on both sides are represented by the two Bospori lying opposite to each other, the ThracianAt Constantinople. and the Cimmerian; and they are called Bospori, as the poets say, because the daughter of Inachus,Io; cf. Ovid, Metam. i, 586 ff. A more probable reason is that they were so narrow that an ox could swim across them. Amm. is wrong about the second curve, which extends to the Colchi, while the Cimmerian Bosporus (between the Euxine and the Palus Maeotis) is in the middle of the curve; of. Mela, i. 112, 114; Procop. viii. 6, 14 f. when she was changed into a heifer, once crossed through them to the Ionian sea.
