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There were now added to the indirect territories of Rome the kingdom of Armenia and the principalities of the Caucasus, and also the kingdom on the Cimmerian Bosporus, the small remnant of the extensive conquests of Mithradates Eupator, now a client-state of Rome under the government of his son and murderer Pharnaces; the town of Phanagoria alone, whose commandant Castor had given the signal for the revolt, was on that account recognized by the Romans as free and independent.
I wished you to come here, and willed you to come here. For some reason you have come. You didn't let me know you were here, but, by chance as it seems, we met. I don't mean to lose sight of you. I intend that you shall come either to Buyukderer, or to some place on the Bosporus not far off that's endurable in the summer, and that you shall stay there for a time." "Why?"
Still under the walls of Constantinople it was not long before they forgot the lessons of their defeats and began again to rob and murder. Alexius soon found it expedient to ferry them across the Bosporus. The subjects of Alexius suffered worse than the Turks at first.
Sylla landed in Greece with a reinforcement of twenty-five thousand Romans, and retook Athens; but Mithridates sent in succession two large armies by the Bosporus and the Dardanelles: the first, one hundred thousand strong, was destroyed at Chæronea, and the second, of eighty thousand men, met a similar fate at Orchomenus.
Again the scream bursts from the victim's lips; but its thrilling, cutting agony is interrupted by a sudden plunge a splash a gurgling and a rippling of the waters and the corpse of the murdered Calanthe is borne toward the deeper and darker bosom of the Bosporus.
After sailing through the length of the Sea of Marmora, about one hundred and ten miles, we arrived at five o'clock in the evening within sight of the domes and minarets that crown the promontory at the entrance to the Strait of Bosporus.
Of this I thought it necessary that you should be informed, because I lately acquainted you in a letter that Lycormas had desired, if any embassy should come this way from Bosporus, that I would detain it till his arrival. When be was examined before me, he confirmed this account, for which reason I thought it necessary to send24 him to you.
"The point beyond us on the left," said the guide a few minutes later, "is called Seraglio Point. The portion of the city on the promontory, extending along the Bosporus, is about one mile in length and half a mile in width and is called the Seraglio.
"And it seems not to be interfered with by distance." She leaned till her cheek touched his. "Dion, I wish to make you forget. I know how it is with you. You suffer abominably because you can't forget. I haven't succeeded with you yet. But wait, only wait, till Jimmy goes, till the summer is over and we can leave the Bosporus. It's all too intimate the life here. We are all too near together.
Thus the child of the desert became the most powerful influence in the East, for in those days the authority of the Mogul extended from the Ganges to the Bosporus and the Baltic Sea. Nur Jehan took good care of her own family. Her father continued to occupy the office of grand vizier until his death, and her brother, Asaf Khan, became high treasurer of the empire and father-in-law of the Mogul.
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