NOTES 8-17

8 - Amisus and Piraeus, both the same place, is present-day Samsun, Turkey.

9 - Trapezus and Trehizond, both the same place, is present-day Trabzon, Turkey.

10 - Corinthian pottery was discovered in great abundance by the excavations of 1951, and 1953.

11 - Ancient Heraclea is present-day Eregli, Turkey.

12 - Amaseia is present-day Amasya, Turkey, situated about eighty miles south of Samsun.

13 - From then, Mithridates was also known as the King of the Bosphorus.

14 - Lucullus Lucius Licinius.

15 - Cabira was a sacred city in ancient times, located near Amaseta.

16 - Cneius Pompeius Magnus.

17 - The location of these tombs is yet unknown.