[Footnote 77: Xenophon, who had encountered the Colchians in
his retreat, (Anabasis, l. iv. p. 320, 343, 348, edit.
Hutchinson; and Foster's Dissertation, p. liii. - lviii., in
Spelman's English version, vol. ii.,) styled them. 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.)]