Pontus

Sources from old books:

1638. The merchants mappe of commerce wherein by Lewes Roberts.

Of PONTUS, and the Cities thereof.

ON the North side of Bithinia is Pontus, wherein is found the ruines of Tom•…s to which Ovid was banished, and Pithius where Chrysostome lived in exile: here also ruled Mithridates, who for 40. yeeres withstood the Romanes, not more excellent in Warre then learning and memory, who spake 22. languages, and invented that •…unterpoyson from him named Mithridate; and who at last by the rebellion of his sonne and the valour of L. Sylla, Lucullus and •…ompey was vanquished; the last of which erected a pillar upon a small Iland at the entrance of the black or Euxine Sea, which at this day is knowne by his name, and shewed by the inhabitants to •…rangers as a trophey of his Victories in these parts.