BOOK IV. XI. 41-43 



are the Staletae, Priantae, Dolongae, Thyni, and the 

 Greater Celaletae at the foot of the Great Balkan 

 and the Lesser at the foot of Mount Rhodope. 

 Between these tribes runs the river Maritza, and 

 below Rhodope is the to^vn formerly called 

 PoneropoHs, then Philippopolis aftcr its founder, and 

 now Trimontiuni froni its site. To the summit of 

 the Great Balkan is a journey of six miles. Its 

 opposite side skiping down towards the Danube is 

 inhabited by thc Moesi, Getae, Aodi, Scaugdae and 

 CLiriae, and below them the Sarmatian Arraei caUed 

 Arcatae, and the Scythians, and round the shores of 

 the Black Sca the Moi'iseni and the Sithoni, the 

 anccstry of the poet OrjDheus. 



Thus Thrace is bounded by the Danube on the 

 north, the Black Sea and Sea of Marmara on the east, 

 and the Aegean Sea on the south, on the coast of 

 which after leaving the Struma we come to ApoUo- 

 nia, Osima, Kavallo and Batos. Inland is the colony 

 of Fihba, at a distance of 325 miles from Durazzo, 

 Scotussa, the state of Topiros, the mouth of the river 

 Mestus, the mountain of Pilat Tepeh, Melenik, Agia 

 Maria, the free city of Abdera, the Lagos Buru and 

 the pcople of the Bistoni. Here once was the town 

 of Tirida, formidable on account of the stables of 

 tlie horses of Diomedc ; and there now are the towns 

 of Dicaea and Ismaron, the place callcd Parthcnion, 

 Phalcsina, Marogna foi-merly called Orthagurea, 

 Mount Serrium, Zone ; and then the place called 

 Doriscus, a plain large enough to hold 10,000 men, 

 as it was in detachmcnts of that number that Xerxes 

 there counted liis army ; the mouth of the Maritza, 

 the harbour of Stentor, the free town of Enos 

 with the Funeral Mound of Polydorus," a district 



voL. II. p 149 



