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PITYOUS (Ancient city) KOLCHIS
Pityus (Pituous: Pitsunda), a Greek town in Asiatic Sarmatia, on the
north-eastern coast of the Black Sea, N. of Dioscurias, from which it was distant
360 stadia according to Artemidorus, and 350 according to Arrian. The real distance,
however, is underrated by these writers; for from C. Iskuria (Dioscurias) to Pitsunda
is not less than 400 stadia in a straight line. (Artemidor.ap. Strab. xi. p. 496;
Arrian, Per. P. Eux. p. 18.) Artemidorus described it as the great Pityus, and
Pliny as an oppidum opulentissimum; but between the time of Artemidorus and Pliny
it was destroyed by the Heniochi (Plin. vi. 5), whence Arrian mentions it only
as a place for anchorage, and the name does not occur at all in Ptolemy. The town
was after-wards rebuilt by the Romans, and is described by Zosimus (i. 32), in
the history of Gallienus, as a fortress surrounded with a very great wall, and
having a most excellent harbour. (Comp. Procop. B. Goth. iv. p. 473, ed. Bonn;
comp. C. Muller, ad Arrian. l. c. ap. Geogr. Graec. Min. vol. i. p. 392.)
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited August 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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