west of the Granikus. From Parium he sailed to
Nikomedia, a fact omitted by Plutarch, which explains the other fact,
which he does mention, of Voconius being ordered to Nikomedia to look
after the king.]

[Footnote 361: This island lies in the Archipelago off the coast of
Thrace. It was noted for certain religious rites in honour of the gods
called Kabeiri. (Strabo, p. 472.)]

[Footnote 362: This place was on the coast of Bithynia. Appian (c. 78)
says that Mithridates landed at Sinope (Sinab), a large town
considerably east of Heraklea, on the coast of the Black Sea; and that
from Sinope he went along the coast to Amisus. See c. 23.]

[Footnote 363: This notion is common in the Greek writers; the gods
brought misfortune on those whose prosperity was excessive, and
visited them with punishment for arrogant speaking and boasting. Among
instances of those whose prosperity at last brought calamity on them
was Polykrates, tyrant of Samos (Herodotus, iii. 125); a notorious
instance of the danger of prosperity. See vol. i. Life of Camillus,
ch. 37, note.]

[Footnote 364: Artemis was so called from a town Priapus, which is on
the south coast of the Propontis, and is placed in the maps a little
west of the outlet of the Granikus. Strabo (p. 587) says that the
Granikus flows between the AEsepus and Priapus; and that some say that
Priapus was a Milesian colony, others a colony of Kyzikus. It derived
its name from the god Priapus, who was in great repute here and in
Lampsakus. The soldiers of Mithridates seem to have committed the
excesses spoken of by Plutarch in their march through Priapus to
Lampsakus.

The word for wooden statue is [Greek: xoanon] which is sometimes
simply translated statue. I am not aware that it is ever used by
Pausanias, who often uses the word, in any other sense than that of a
statue of wood.]

[Footnote 365: The Thermodon is a river of Asia Minor which flows
through the plain of Themiskyra into the Black Sea. There is now a
small town, Thermeh, on the left bank of the river. Plutarch might be
supposed to be speaking of a town Themiskyra, and so some persons have
understood him; but perhaps incorrectly, for no town Themiskyra is
mentioned by any other writer.]

[Footnote 366: Amisus, now Samsun, is on the coast of the Black Sea,
between the Halys, Kizil Ermak, and the Iris, Yechil Ermak. The ruins
of the old town are about a mile and a half N.N.W. of the modern town.
"The pier which defended the