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then come to Mount Serrium^ and Zone-, and then tlie 

 place called Doriscus"^, capable of containing ten thoiisand 

 men, for it Avas in bodies of ten thousand that Xerxes here 

 numbered his army. We then come to the mouth of the 

 Hebrus'*, the Port of Steritor, and the free town of ^nos^, 

 with the tomb there of Polydorus^, the region formerly of 

 the Cicones- 



From Doriscus there is a winding coast as far as Macron 

 Tichos^, or the "Long AVall," a distance of 122 miles; 

 round Doriscus flows the river Melas, from which the Gulf 

 of Melas^ receives its name. The towns are, Cypsela^, 

 Bisanthe^", and Macron Tichos, already mentioned, so called 

 because a wall extends from that spot between the two 

 seas, — that is to say, from the Propontis to the Gulf of 

 Melas, thus excluding the Chersonesus", Avhicli projects 

 beyond it. 



The other side of Thrace now begins, on the coast ^' 

 of the Euxine, where the river Ister discharges itself; and 

 it is in this quarter perhaps that Thrace possesses the finest 

 cities, Histropolis^^, namely, founded by the Milesians, 



I A promontory opposite the island of Samothrace. 



"■^ A towTi on a promontory of the same name, said to have been fre- 

 quented by Orpheus. 



3 The Plain of Doriscus is now called the Plain of Romigik. Parisot 

 suggests the true reading here to be 100,000, or, as some MSS. have 

 it, 120,000, there being notliing remarkable in a plain containing 10,000 

 men. PUny however does not mention it as being remarkable, but 

 merely suggests that the method used by Xerxes here for numbering 

 his host is worthy of attention. 



^ Now the Maritza. At its mouth it divides into two branches, the 

 eastern forming the port of Stentor. * Still called Enos. 



^ A son of Priam and Ilccuba, murdered by Polymnestor, king of the 

 Thracian Chersonesus, to obtain his treasiu-es. See the iEneid, B, iii. 



7 From the Greek, fiaicpov rei^os. ^ Now the Gulf of Enos. 



9 Now Ipsala, or Chapsylar, near Keshan. 



^0 Now Rodosto, or Rodostsliig, on the coast of the Propontis, or Sea 

 of Marmora. 



II Now called the Peninsula of the Dardanelles, or of Gallipoh. The 

 wall was built to protect it from incxu-sions from the mainland. 



12 He here skips nearly five degrees of latitude, and at once ])rocceds to 

 the northern parts of Thirace, at the mouth of the Danube, anil moves to 

 the south. 



13 Or, the "city of the Ister," at the south of Lake Ilalmyris, on the 

 Euxine. Its site is not exactly known ; but by some it is sxipposcd to 

 have been the same with that of the modem Kostendsje. 



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