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towns are ^gise\ at which place its kings were usually 

 buried, Bersea^, and, in the country called Pieria from the 

 grove of that name, -^ginium^. TJpon the coast are Hera- 

 clea'*, the river Apilas*, the towns of Pydna^ and Aloros', 

 and the river Haliacmon^. In the interior are the Aloritae^, 

 the Yallaei^", the Phylacsei, the Cyrrhestae", the TyrissaBi, 

 the colony of Pella^^, and Stobi^^, a town with the rights of 

 Eoman citizens. Next comes Antigonea''', Eur opus ^* upon 

 the river Axius, and another place of the same name by 

 which the Ehcedias flows, Scydra, Eord^a, Mieza, and Gor- 

 dynisD. Then, upon the coast, IchnaB^', and the river Axius : 

 along this frontier the Dardani, the Treres^^, and the Pieres, 

 border on Macedonia. Leaving this river, there are the 



^ Supposed by some writers to be the same place as Edessa. Ansart 

 says it is the spot now known as Moglena. 



2 Now Verria in Eoumeha. St. Paid and Silas withdrew to this place 

 from Thessalonica. The remains are very considerable. 



3 Described by Livy as of great strength. It occupied the site of the 

 modem Stagus. 



4 Sumamed Lyncestis ; the chief town of Upper Macedonia. It must 

 have stood not far from the modem town of Felurina. 



^ Now the Platamona. 



^ Now Kitron. The Romans usually called it Citron or Citrus. 



7 In the inmost recess of the Therraaic Gulf. Leake supposes it to 

 have occupied the site of the present Palea Khora, near Kapsokhori. 



* Now the Vistritza, by the Turks called Inje-Karra. Csesar calls it 

 the boundary between Macedonia and Thessaly. 



^ The people apparently of Aloros just mentioned. 



^^ Yallse and Phylacse appear to have been two towns of Pieria. 



^^ The people of Cyrrhus ; probably on the site of the present 

 Yistritza. Leake however makes a place called Paleokastro to occupy its 

 site. Tyrissse was probably in its vicinity. 



12 Now Alaklisi, upon a lake formed by the Lydias. Philip made it 

 the capital of Macedonia, and it was the birth-place of Alexander the 

 G-reat. It was made a Roman colony under the name of Julia Augusta 

 PeUa. 13 Its ruins are stiU called Stoh. 



1* There were two places of this name in Macedonia ; one called Anti- 

 gonia Psaphara in Chalcidice, and the other in Pseonia. 



1^ Between Idomene and the plains of PeUa. As Pliny here says, it 

 was a different place from Europus of Almopia, by which the Rhoedias 

 flows. Of the following places nothing seems to be known. 



IS Coupled by Herodotus with Pella. Eordsea seems to have been the 

 name of the district on the river Eordaicus, identified with the modem 

 Devol. 



17 They dwelt m the vicinity of Mount Scomium. The river Axius is 

 the modem Yardhari. 



