From Iſtria to Tomi 300 ſtadia. This is ſet down in the Peutingerian Tables at 40 Greek miles, equal to 320 ſtadia, agreeing nearly with Arrian. Antoninus°s Itinerary makes it to be 36 miles, or 288 ſtadia, which approaches ſtill nearer to Arrian. Strabo makes it to be only 250 ſtadia, or 313 Greek miles. From the mouth of the river, on which Viſtwar is ſituated, to Baba, or Tomiſwar, is, by Laurie and Whittle's chart, 34 Engliſh miles, equal to 37 Greek miles nearly, and very near 300 ſtadia. Tomi ſeems to have been a more conſiderable place at the time the Peutingerian Tables were conſtructed, than it was in that of Ovid[1]. Hoffman ſays, in his Lexicon, that there is a lake there, which in its name (Ouvido Jezeoro) carries ſome memorial of that poet. The name of Tomi[2] bears, according to Ovid, a teſtimony reſpecting the Argonautic expedition. Perhaps Tomi might have become more conſiderable[3] after the removal of the imperial feat to Conſtantinople, from its neighbourhood to that city.
From Tomi to Callantra 300 ſtadia. This appears to be the Callatis of other authors. Strabo makes this diſtance to be 280 ſtadia, or 35 Greek miles. The Peutingerian Tables make it to be 34 Greek miles, equal to 272 ſtadia. The Itinerary makes it 30 Greek miles, or 240 ſtadia. The diſtance from Tomi to Callatis is, in D'Anville's map, about 280 ſtadia. In Arrowſmith's chart,
- ↑ There is in Goltzius a coin of Tomi, of the head of a young man with a laurel crown, with a lyre by him, which probably was meant for Ovid.
- ↑ Inde Tomos dictus locus hic, quia fertur in illo
Membra ſoror ſratris conſecuiſſe ſui.Triſt. lib. iii. eleg. 9.I ſhould rather ſuppoſe, that it had its name from the cutting the tunnies into pieces for curing. The Tomus Thyrianus is well known, and why ſhould not a place on a coaſt ſo celebrated for the preparation of the tunny, have the name of Tomi? Editor.
- ↑ Iſtropolis, Tomi, and Callatis appear to have been flouriſhing places in Pliny's time, as he calls them "pulcherrimas urbes."
