Christians and large portions of the Greek population, especially the Greeks of Pontos, or Black Sea region) was reaching 1 million. Peter Balakian, The Burning
wounds which are raw shudder at the touch of the hands. Ovid, Epistolæ Ex Ponto, I. 3. 15. Saucius ejurat pugnam gladiator, et idem Immemor antiqui vulneris
inclosure — whistled — dog stopped — whistled again — Ponto — no go; stock still — called him — Ponto, Ponto — wouldn't move — dog transfixed — staring at a
hand; 'Twere better that they were not touched at all. Ovid, Epistolae ex Ponto, III, vii, 25. Surgery is the red flower that blooms among the leaves and
slender thread: the strongest fall with a sudden crash. Ovid, Epistolæ Ex Ponto, IV. 3. 35. Nothing is but what is not. William Shakespeare, Macbeth (1605)