BOOK IV. XI. 43-45 



formerly belonging to thc Cicones. From Doriscus 

 the coast makes a curve of 112 miles to Long Wall, 

 round whicli flows the Black Iliver that gives its 

 name to the bay." The towns are Ipsala, Rodosto, 

 Long Wall, so called because its fortifications extend 

 between the two seas, from the Sea of Marmara to the 

 Gulf of Enos, cutting oflT the projecting GaUipoH 

 Peninsula. For the other side of Thracc begins at East coast 

 the coast of the Bhxck Sea where the Danube flows ''/^''"■'"■«' 

 into it ; and this region comprises its finest cities, 

 Kostendsje, a colony from Nliletus, Temesvar and 

 CoUat, formerly called Cerbatis. It formerly had 

 Heraclea and Bizone, which was swaUowed up by an 

 earthquake, and it stiU has the City of Dionysus, 

 previously caUed Crunos, which is washed by the 

 river Zyras. The whole of this region was occupied 

 by the Scythian tribe caUed the Ploughmen, their 

 to^^Tis being Aphrodisias, Libistus, Zygere, Rhocobae, 

 Eumenia, Parthenopohs and Gerania, stated to have 

 been the abode of the race of Pigmics : their name 

 in the local dialect used to be Catizi, and there is a 

 Ijchef that they were driven away by cranes. On 

 the coast after the City of Dionysus come the Milesian 

 colony of N^^arna, the river Daphne-Soni and the town 

 of Four Roadstcads. The enormous ridge of the 

 Grcat BaUian projecting into the Black Sea formerly 

 had on its summit the to^vTi of Aristaeum, and on the 

 coast now are Missiori and Akiah on the former site 

 of Messa. The region of Astice had a town of 

 Anthium, which is now ApoUonia.'' The rivers are 

 the Panisos, luras, Tearus, Orosines ; the towns 

 Tiniada, Midjeh, Zagora (with its marsh now caUed 

 Deultum), a colony of veterans, and Phinopohs, near 

 which are the Straits of Constantinople. From tlie 



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