Note 077 Xenophon, who had encountered the Colchians in his retreat, (Anabasis, l. iv. p. 320, 343, 348, edit. Hutchinson; and Foster's Dissertation, p. liii. - lviii., in Spelman's English version, vol. ii.,) styles them Ancient Greek

Before the conquest of Mithridates, they are named by Appian, Ancient Greek

(de Bell. Mithridatico, c. 15, tom. i. p. 661, of the last and best edition, by John Schweighaeuser. Lipsiae, 1785 8 vols. largo octavo.)

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