The Eastern colossus had been dwindling so fast for nearly a century that a Macedonian king, who had already subdued the Balkan peninsula, loomed at least as large in the world's eye, when he crossed the hellespont, as the titular Emperor of contumacious satraps and ever-rebelling provinces of western Asia.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
Here and there he had a brush with hill-men, who had long been unused to effective control, while with one or two of their towns he had to make terms; but on the approach of winter, Anatolia was at his feet, and he seated himself at Gordion, in the Sakaria valley, where he could at once guard his communications with the hellespont and prepare for advance into farther Asia by an easy road.
"The Ancient East"
D. G. Hogarth
When he was arrived at the extremities of the ocean, he turned back, and passed through the upper provinces of Asia, till he came to the hellespont, which he crossed.
"A New System; or, an Analysis of Antient Mythology. Volume II. (of VI.)"
Jacob Bryant