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Φάσιος. H. obviously put this too far south, in the corner of the Black Sea.

The Hellespont here includes all the narrow seas, from the Bosporus to Sigeum, at the entrance of the Hellespont; cf. 95. 1, 138. 2; v. 103. 2; vi. 26. 1, 33. 1; this sense is familiar in the ‘Hellespontine’ division of the Athenian tribute. In i. 57. 2 and vii. 137. 3 ‘Hellespont’ = ‘the Sea of Marmora’. Ἑλλησπόντιοι is usually, if not always, used by H. in the wider sense; cf. iii. 90. 2; iv. 89. 2; v. 1. 1; vii. 95. 2.

The ‘Myriandian Gulf’ is the modern Bay of Issus. The ‘Triopian Cape’ is the south-west corner of Asia Minor, near Cnidus (cf. i. 144. 1).

τριήκοντα. There are thirty-three nations in H.'s two lists together (iii. 90 seq.; vii. 70 seq.), thirty in each of them singly.

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