of the Drillæ agree with that of [1]Xenophon, ſave that the latter ſays nothing of their form of government. We ſee by the threats, which Arrian expreſſes towards this people, the manner in which the Romans treated their refractory tributaries; which explains the reaſon, why theſe nations, when they gained the ſuperiority, as they did a tew centuries afterwards, retorted the ſame ill uſage on the Romans. The accounts of theſe writers agree very well with thoſe given of the modern predatory inhabitants of theſe countries. It appears, that theſe nations were tributary, and perhaps feudatory, to the Romans, and governed by princes nominated by the Emperors. The deſcription, which Arrian gives of the direction in which he proceeded in his courſe by ſea, is perfectly correct. As far as Apſarus, he obſerves, that their courſe lay Eaſtward, and this place he conſiders as the [2] extremity of the Euxine ſea towards that point; and this is true of it, as to what regards the Southern coaſt, or the right ſide of the Pontus. From thence their courſe lay Northward to the Chobus and the Singamis. At the latter place the ſhore began to verge a little to the Weſtward, or what he calls the left ſide of the Pontus, and continued in that direction to Aſtelephus and Dioſcurias, where his voyage terminated.
The View of mount Caucaſus from Dioſcurias deſcribed by Arrian reſembles that given by[3] Apollonius Rhodius. I do not find that the ſummit of mount Caucaſus is called Strobilus by any other writer. It is undoubtedly ſo named from its reſemblance in ſhape to a pine cone; and the plenty of trees of this kind in the ſurrounding [4] country makes this more evident. Strabo mentions
