lie near to the east of the sandy isthmus which
now connects the peninsula of Kyzikus with the mainland. Hamilton
(_Researches in Asia Minor_, &c., London, 1842, ii. 102), says that
"the loose and rubbly character of the buildings of Kyzikus little
accords with the celebrity of its architects; and although some appear
to have been cased with marble, none of them give an idea of the solid
grandeur of the genuine Greek style." Yet Strabo (p. 575) describes
this city as among the first of Asia. In his time the present
peninsula was an island, which was connected with the mainland by two
bridges: the city was near the bridges, and had two harbours that
could be closed. Under the Romans in Strabo's time, Kyzikus was a Free
City (_Libera Civitas_).]

[Footnote 350: This range is described by Strabo as opposite to
Kyzikus, on the mainland. Kaltwasser states that Strabo called the
Adrasteia of Plutarch by the name Dindymus; but this is a mistake, in
which he is not singular. Dindymus was a solitary hill, and on the
peninsula near the town of Kyzikus.]

[Footnote 351: This is a small lake near the coast of the Propontis,
at the back of which and more inland are two larger lakes, called
respectively by ancient geographers, Miletopolitis (now Moniyas) and
Apollonias (now Abullionte). The lake Daskylitis is not marked in the
map which accompanies Hamilton's work.]

[Footnote 352: Persephassa, or Persephone, whom the Romans call
Proserpina, was the patron goddess of Kyzikus. Compare Appian
(_Mithridat. War_, c. 75).]

[Footnote 353: What he was I don't know. Kaltwasser translates the
word ([Greek: grammatiste]) "the public schoolmaster;" but he is
inclined to take Reiske's conjecture [Greek: grammatei] because the
grammateus was an important functionary in the Greek towns, and a
"public schoolmaster" is not mentioned as an ordinary personage at
this period. But Kaltwasser has not observed that [Greek:
grammatistes] signifies a clerk or secretary in various passages
(Herodotus, iii. 123, 128; vii. 100). If [Greek: grammatistes] could
only signify a schoolmaster, it would be necessary to alter the
reading. One cannot suppose that the goddess would reveal herself to a
schoolmaster; or that a schoolmaster could venture to announce that he
had received the honour of such a communication. When Romulus after
his sudden disappearance again appeared to assure the anxious
citizens, Julius Proculus was selected by him as the person to wh