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The Byzantines Institute a Toll
Now this exaction by the Byzantines of a duty upon
The Byzantines levy a toll.
goods brought from the Pontus, being a
heavy loss and burden to everybody, was
universally regarded as a grievance; and accordingly an appeal from all those engaged in the trade was
made to the Rhodians, as acknowledged masters of the sea:
and it was from this circumstance that the war originated of
which I am about to speak.
For the Rhodians, roused to action by the loss incurredThe Rhodians declare war, B. C. 220.
by themselves, as well as that of their
neighbours, at first joined their allies in an
embassy to Byzantium, and demanded the
abolition of the impost. The Byzantines refused compliance, being persuaded that they were in the right by the
arguments advanced by their chief magistrates, Hecatorus and
Olympidorus, in their interview with the ambassadors. The
Rhodian envoys accordingly departed without effecting their
object. But upon their return home, war was at once
Raid of Aetolians In the Peloponnese
About the same time Mithridates also declared war
Mithridates IV., king of Pontus, declares war against Sinope.
against the people of Sinope; which proved to
be the beginning and occasion of the disaster
which ultimately befell the Sinopeans. Upon
their sending an embassy with a view to this
war to beg for assistance from the Rhodians, the latter
decided to elect three men, and to grant them a hundred and
forty thousand drachmae with which to procure supplie these presents and departed; for the people
of Sinope, being in great anxiety lest Mithridates should
attempt to besiege them both by land and sea, were making
all manner of preparations with this view. Sinope lies on the
right-hand shore of the Pontus as one sails to Phasis, and is built
upon a peninsula jutting out into the sea: it is on the neck of
this peninsula, connecting it with Asia, which is not more than
two stades wide, that the city is so placed as to entirely close
it up from sea
The Gallic King, Cauarus
Cauarus, king of the Gauls in Thrace, was of a truly
Cauarus, king of the Gauls, settled on the Hellespont. See 4, 46 and 52.
royal and high-minded disposition, and gave
the merchants sailing into the Pontus great
protection, and rendered the Byzantines important services in their wars with the
Thracians and Bithynians. . . .
This king, so excellent in other respects, was corrupted
by a flatterer named Sostratus, who was a Chalchedonian by
birth. . . .