between the Euphrates and the Halys were
possessed above 350 years by the Medes (Herodot. l. i. c. 103) and
Persians; and the kings of Pontus were of the royal race of the
Achaemenides, (Sallust. Fragment. l. iii. with the French supplement and
notes of the president de Brosses.)]

[Footnote 11: Most probably founded by Pompey after the conquest of
Pontus. This Colonia, on the Lycus, above Neo-Caesarea, is named by
the Turks Coulei-hisar, or Chonac, a populous town in a strong country,
(D'Anville, Geographie Ancienne, tom. ii. p. 34. Tournefort, Voyage du
Levant, tom. iii. lettre xxi. p. 293.)]

[Footnote 12: The temple of Bellona, at Comana in Pontus was a powerful
and wealthy foundation, and the high priest was respected as the second
person in the kingdom. As the sacerdotal office had been occupied by
his mother's family, Strabo (l. xii. p. 809, 835, 836, 837) dwells with
peculiar complacency on the temple, the worship, and festival, which was
twice celebrated every year. But the Bellona of Pontus had the features
and character of the goddess, not of war, but of love.]

[Footnote 13: Gregory, bishop of Neo-Caesarea, (A.D. 240-265,) surnamed
Thaumaturgus, or the Wonder-worker. An hundred years afterwards, the
history or romance of his life was composed by Gregory of Nyssa, his
namesake and countryman, the brother of the great St. Basil.]

[Footnote 14: Hoc caeterum ad sua egregia facinora, divini atque
orthodoxi Imperatores addiderunt, ut Manichaeos Montanosque capitali
puniri sententia juberent, eorumque libros, quocunque in loco
inventi essent, flammis tradi; quod siquis uspiam eosdem occultasse
deprehenderetur, hunc eundem mortis poenae addici, ejusque bona in
fiscum inferri, (Petr. Sicul. p. 759.) What more could bigotry and
persecution desire?]

[Footnote 15: It should seem, that the Paulicians allowed themselves
some latitude of equivocation and mental reservation; till the Catholics
discovered the pressing questions, which reduced them to the alternative
of apostasy or martyrdom, (Petr. Sicul. p. 760.)]

[Footnote 16: The persecution is told by Petrus Siculus (p. 579-763)
with satisfaction and pleasantry. Justus justa persolvit. See likewise
Cedrenus, (p. 432-435.)]

The most furious and desperate of rebels are the sectaries of a religion
long persecuted, and at length provoked. In a holy cause they are no
longer susceptible of fear or remorse: the justice of their arms hardens
them against the feelings