ad loc.

Schohast ad Apollonium Argonaut.l.iv.

282-291.] [Footnote 70: Montesquieu, Esprit des Loix, l.xxi.c.6.

L'Isthme...
couvero de villes et nations qui ne sont plus.] [Footnote 71: Bougainville, Memoires de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom.xxvi.p.33, on the African voyage of Hanno and the commerce of antiquity.] But the riches of Colchos shine only through the darkness of conjecture or tradition; and its genuine history presents a uniform scene of rudeness and poverty.

If one hundred and thirty languages were spoken in the market of Dioscurias, [72] they were the imperfect idioms of so many savage tribes or families, sequestered from each other in the valleys of Mount Caucasus; and their separation, which diminished the importance, must have multiplied the number, of their rustic capitals.