Before the conquest of Mithridates, they are named by Appian, (de Bell.

Mithridatico, c.

15, tom.i.p.661, of the last and best edition, by John Schweighaeuser.

Lipsae, 1785 8 vols.
largo octavo.)] [Footnote 78: The conquest of Colchos by Mithridates and Pompey is marked by Appian (de Bell.

Mithridat.) and Plutarch, (in Vit.