BOOK IV. XI. 45-48 



mouth of the Danube to the outlet of thc Black Sea 

 was reckoned as 552 miles, but Agrippa made it 60 

 miles more ; and from that point to the wall above 

 mentioned is 150 miles, and from there to the end 

 of the Gallipoli Peninsula 126 miles. 



On lcaving the Dardanelles we come to the Bay of siantboul. 

 Casthencs, the Old Men's Harbour and the other 

 called the \Vomcn's Harbour, and the promontory of 

 the Golden Horn, on whicli is the town of Byzantium," 

 a free state, formcrly called Lygos ; it is 711 miles 

 from Durazzo, so great being the space of land 

 between the Adriatic and the Sea of Marmara. 

 There are the rivers Bathynias and Pidaras or 

 Athidas, and the towns of Selymbria and Perinthus 

 which are connected with the mainland by an isthmus 

 200 ft. wide. Inland are Vizia, a citadel of the 

 kings of Thrace that is hated by swallows because 

 of the outrage committed by Tereus,* the disti'ict of 

 Caenica, the colony of Flaviopolis on the site of 

 the former town callcd Caehi, and 50 miles from Vizia 

 the colony of Apros, which is 189 miles distant from 

 Phihppi. On the coast is the river Erkene, and once 

 stood the town of Ganos ; Lysimachea " on the 

 GaUipoh Peninsula is also now becoming deserted. 

 But at this point there is another ^ Isthmus which OaiHpoii. 

 marks similar narrows with tlie same name and is of 

 about equal width ; and in a not dissimilar manner^ 

 two cities occupied the shores on either side, Pactye 

 on the side of the Sca of Marmara and Cardia on 

 that of the Gulf of Enos,/ the latter city taking its 

 name ? from the conformation of the place ; both were 

 subsequently united with the city of Lysimachea, 

 five miles from Long Wall.'' On the Marmara 

 side of GalHpoH Peninsula were Tiristasis, Crithotes 



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