a mountain of this ſhape, which is obſerved indeed to be the general form. of ſuch as have been volcanic, which might in early ages have been the caſe with mount Caucaſus. The Periplus now reverts to an account of the diſtances of the ſeveral places from one another, that lie between the Thracian Boſporus and Trapezus.
From Byzantium to the temple of Jupiter Urius 120 ſtadia. This was ſituated on the Aiiatic ſide of the Thracian Boſporus, and nearly on the point of land, which joins that ſtrait on the Eaſtern ſide, and the Euxine ſea on the North. It might poſſibly be on the ſpot, where the Argonauts ſacrificed to the ſame [1] deity, by the advice of Phineus. [2] Polybius ſays, that the place bore the name of Ἱερὸν in his time, and that Jaſon ſacrificed there to the twelve deities, a circumſtance recognized by Apollonius[3]. The Scholiaſt on Apollonius ſays, the ſpot was ſo called in his time. Gyllius ſays, that in his time it bore the name Ἱερὸν, and Tournefort mentions its being called Ioro, which he takes to be a corruption of Ἰερὸν, or poſſibly of Urii. The word οὔριος is ſaid to be particularly applicable to ſea-voyages. It is derived from οὐρὰ, cauda, and ſignifies, as we are informed by the Scholiaſt on Thucydides, a wind that blows on the hinder part, or ſtern, of the ſhip, and, by an eaſy accommodation, a fair or a proſperous wind. The Greeks, being defective in navigation, regarded that wind as the moſt favourable, that blew directly towards the point aimed at, although they could fail with one more oblique, and even with the wind on the beam. The deity here mentioned ſeems to be the ſame with the one, which is called in Apollonius, Διὸς ἰκμαῖος, or Jupiter humidus. Thus the Scholiaſt explains it. Perhaps Tournefort's
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