to be 50 ſtadia. Sinope was a colony of the Mileſians, and the moſt famous of any of the cities on the Euxine ſea. It was the birth-place and reſidence of Mithridates Eupator, who made it the capital city of Pontus. It was ſituated upon the iſthmus of a peninſula, about ſix miles in circuit, and terminating in a conſiderable cape, or head-land. It is mentioned by Apollonius and by Valerius Flaccus, as ſubſiſting in the time of the Argonauts. It had two ports, one on each ſide of the iſthmus, and was remarkable for its tunny fiſhery. The city, and particularly the ſuburbs, Were very magnificent, and ornamented with a gymnaſium, a forum, and ſuperb porticos. The land ſurrounding it was fertile, and ſuited both to gardens and agriculture. It was once a ſeat of learning, and of arts, being the birth-place of Diogenes, the Cynic philoſopher; and Strabo mentions the Sphere of Billarus the aſtronomer, which was taken away from city by Lucullus. Both Strabo and Plutarch mentions a celebrated ſtatue, by the ſculptor Sthenis, of Autolycus, Who was one of the companions of Hercules, and, as Strabo thinks, one of the Argonauts, and the founder of Sinope, which ſtatue was carried away by Lucullus. Tournefort, who was at Sinope, concurs exactly with Strabo in his account of this place. Its preſent trade conſiſts of ſalted fiſh, particularly young tunnies, as in former ages. Stadia.
| From Heraclea to Sinope is, according to Strabo, | 2000 | ||
| according to Arrow, | 2140 | ||
| according to Ptolemy, | 1881 | Gr. cop. | |
| 2157 | Lat . cop. | ||
| In a ſtraight line, according to D'Anville, | 1300 | ||
| according to Arrowſmith | 1747 |
