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rejects it, refusing to allow the punitive waters 

 engendered for the service of the Furies to mingle 

 with its own silver flood. 



IX. Adjoining Thessaly is Magnesia, to which Coast n.e. 

 belong the spring Libethra, the towns of lolcus, "-^ lessay. 

 Ormenium, Pyrrha, Methone and Ohzon, Cape 

 Sepias, the towns of Castana and Spalathra, Cape 

 Aeantium, the to^vns Mehboea, Rhizus and Erymnae, 



the mouth of the Peneus, the towns HomoHum, 

 Orthe, Iresiae, Pehnna, Thaumacie, Gyrton, Crannon, 

 Acharne, Dotion, MeHte, Phylace and Potniae. 



The total length of Epii*us, Achaia, Attica and Dimmsions 

 Thessaly is said to be 490 miles and the total breadth "•'' "''^*'*- 

 297 miles. 



X. Next comes Macedonia, with 150 nations, and NoTth coast 

 famous for two kings " and for its former world- %a''^'"^ 

 wide empire ; it was previously called Emathia. J^ace<i<>«w. 

 It stretches westward to the races of Epirus, at the 



back of Magnesia and Thessaly, and on this side is 

 exposed to the inroads of the Dardani, but its 

 northern part is protected from the TribalH by 

 Paeonia and Pelagonia. Its towns are Aegiae, the 

 customary burial place of its kings, Beroea, and in the 

 district caHed Pieria from the forest of that name, 

 Aeginium. On the coast are Heraclea, the river 

 Platamona, the towns of Pydna and Olorus, and the 

 river Vistritza. Inland are the Aloritae, VaUaei, 

 Phylacaei, Cyrrestae and Tyrissaei, the colony of 

 Pella, and the town of Stobi, which has the Roman 

 citizenship. Then come Antigonea, Europus on the 

 river Axius, and the town of the same name through 

 which flows the Rhoedias, Scydra, Eordaea, Mieza 

 and Gordyniae. Then on the coast Ichnae and the 

 river Axius. The neighbours of Macedonia on this 



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