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We fee then, that the interval between the firft and fecond Polemon was
filled up by the two laft-mentioned princes,
Sauromates and Rhefcuporis, pro-
bably owing to the tender age of the heirs of Polemon I who were children
...when he died, and the Roman policy of not permitting the Bofphoric fceptre
to remain ad interim in the hand of their mother, who held at the fame time
that of Pontus, as well as Cappadocia, by her fecond marriage witli its fovereign
Archelaus.
XVIIIth King. — POLEMON the Second. (2n the y^ijl year of Rome, AD 38.^ This fovereign received the Bofphoric fceptre from Caligula in the 79111 year
of Rome, as we learn from Dion ; but he did not long enjoy that dignity, as
we find it befl:owed four years afterwards on Mithridates II (of Bofphorus) by
the Emperor Claudius ; for which he deceived a part of Cilicia as an equivalent ;
and it might be fo from his fituation as king of Pontus ; but we find that he
even gave up this laft kingdom to become a Roman province AD 61; ; but
for what new equivalent is unknown to the moderns ; fo that he at laft onlv retained
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