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aations of PcTonia\ tlie Paroroei^ tlie Eordenses^ the Al- 

 iiopii^ the Pehigoues, aud the Mygdones^ 



Next come the mountains of Rhodope, Scopius, and Ovbe- 

 ius ; and, lymg along the extent of country in front of these 

 mountains,* the Arethusii^ the Antiochienses', the Idome- 

 Qenses^ the Doberi^ the ^straeenses, the Allantenses, the 

 Audaristenses, the Morylli, the Garesci'^ the Lyncesta)'\ the 

 Othryonei'-, and the Amantini'^ and Orestae^', both of them 

 [ree peoples ; the colonies of Bullis^^ and Dium^^ the Xylo- 

 polit^, the Scotussa^i, a free people, Heraclea Sintica'', the 

 IvmphcTi^^ and the Toronsei. 



* Upon the coast of the Macedonian Gulf there are the 

 town of Chalastra'^, and, more inland, Piloros ; also Lete, 



1 Or Thrace. ^ People of Parorsea in Thrace. 



3 The people probably of Eordjea, already mentioned. 



4 Leake thinks that Almopia was the name of the district now caUed 



Moglena. mr i • 



' The IMygdones were a Thracian people m the east ot Macedonia, on 



the Thermaic Gulf. . ,^ -, • • .i 



6 The people of Arethusa, a town of Bisaltia in Macedoma, m the pass 

 3f Anion. Emnpides, the tragic poet, was bm-ied here. 



7 A town of Mvgdonia. .-, /. -i e 



8 The people of Idomenc, a town about twelve miles ti'om the pass ot 

 3tena, now Demirkapi, or the ' Iron Gate,' on the river Yardlian. 



9 Then- district of Doberus is supposed to have been near the modern 



Dogliiran. -, ., -^ ^i 



1" It has been suggested that Garescus stood on the same site as the 



modern Nm-ocopo. Many of these peoples are now entirely unknown 

 Ji The people of Lynccstis, m Macedonia, of lUyrian origin and on the 



frontiers of lUyria. Lyncus was the ancient capital, Ileracla^a the more 



modem one. 



12 Probably the inhabitants of the slopes of Mount Othrys. 



13 Amantia was properly in lUjT-ia, to the south of the river Aous. 

 Leake places it at Nivitza. 



1^ A people of the north of Epirus, on the borders of Macedonia. I hey 

 svere said to have derived their name from Orestes, who, after the murder 

 Df his mother, founded in their tc-rritoiT the town ot Argos Orestieum. 



15 A Greek city of Illyria. Dr. liolland discovered its remams at Gra- 

 aitza on the Aoiis or Viosa. p .. x xi n 



16 The bulwark of the Macedonian maritime frontier to tlio south. 

 Leake chscovered its site near tlie modern :Malathria. 



17 On the right bank of tlie river Strymon m Thracian Macedonia. It 

 3tood on the site of the modem Zervokhori. 



13 A people of Epnus on the borders of Thessaly. 

 19 In Mvgdonia, at the mouth of the Axius— King Perseus put all its 

 male inhabitants to death. Its site was at or near the modem Kulakia. 



