[Footnote 10: The countries between the Euphrates and the
Halys were possessed above 350 years by the Medes (Herodot.
l. i. c. 103) and Persians; and the kings of Pontus were of
the royal race of the Achaemenides, (Sallust. Fragment. l.
iii. with the French supplement and notes of the president
de Brosses.)]