BOOK IV. X. 38-xi. 41 



Acanthus, Stagira, Sithone, Heraclca, and the district 

 of Mygdonia lying below, in which at some distance 

 from the sea are Apollonia and Arethusa, and on the 

 coast again Posidium and the bay with the town of 

 Cermorus, the free city of Amphipolis, and the 

 tribe of the Bisaltae. Then comes the river Struma 

 which rises in Mount Haemus and forms the boundary 

 of Macedonia ; it is worth recording that it spreads 

 out into seven lakes before it proceeds on its course. 



Such is Macedonia, which once won a world-wide 

 empire, marched across Asia, Armenia, Iberia, 

 Albania, Cappadocia, Syria, Egypt, Mount Taurus 

 and the Hindu Kush, was lord over the Bactrians, 

 Medes and Persians, owned the entire East, and even 

 roamed in the tracks of Father Liber and of Hercules 

 and conquered India ; and this also is the Macedonia 

 72 of whose cities our general AemiUus PauUus 

 pillaged and sold in a single day. So great the 

 difference in her lot bestowed upon her by two 

 individuals ! " 



XI. Next comes Thrace, one of the most powerful Thraet. 

 nations of Europe, divided into fifty commands.'' 

 Of its peoples those whom we ought not to omit to 

 name are the Dcnscletae and the Medi, who Hve on 

 the right bank of the river Struma right up to the 

 Bisaltae above mentioned, and the Digerri and the 

 various sections of the Bessi on the left bank, as 

 far as the river Mesto that winds round the foot of 

 Mount Pilat Tepeh, passing through the Haleti, Dio- 

 bessi and Carbilesi, and then the Brysae, Sapaei and 

 Odomanti. The race of the Odrysae owns the source 

 of the Maritza, on the banks of which Hve the 

 Cabyleti, Pyrogeri, Drugeri, Caenici, Hypsalti, Beni, 

 CorpiUi, Bottiaei and Edoni. In the same district 



