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nations of P£eonia\ the Paroraei', the Eordenses', the Al- 

 mopii^ the Pelagones, and the Mygdones". 



Next come the mountains of Rhodope, Scopius, and Orbe- 

 lus ; and, lying along the extent of country in front of these 

 mountains, the Arethusii®, the Antiochienses^, the Idome- 

 nenses^, the Doberi', the JEstrseenses, the Allantenses, the 

 Audaristenses, the Morylli, the Garesci'", the Lyncestae", the 

 Othryonei'^, and the Amantini^' and OrestsD^*, both of them 

 free peoples ; the colonies of Bullis^^ and Dium^^, the Xylo- 

 politae, the Scotussaei, a free people, Heraclea Sintica^', the 

 Tymphaei'^, and the Toronaei. 



Upon the coast of the Macedonian Gulf there are the 

 town of Chalastra^^, and, more inland, Piloros ; also Lete, 



1 Or Thrace. ' People of Parorflea in Thrace. 



3 The people probably of Eordsea, already mentioned. 



* Leake thinks that Almopia was the name of the district now called 

 Moglena^ 



5 The Mygdones were a Thracian people in the east of Macedonia, on 

 the Thermaic Gulf. 



' The people of Arethusa, a town of Bisaltia in Macedonia, in the pass 

 of Anion. Euripides, the tragic poet, was buried here. 



7 A town of Mygdonia. 



8 The people of Idomene, a town about twelve miles from the pass of 

 Stena, now Demirkapi, or the ' Iron Grate,' on the river Vardhari. 



^ Their district of Doberus is supposed to have been near the modem 

 Doghiran. 



^0 It has been suggested that Garescus stood on the same site as the 

 modern Nurocopo. Many of these peoples are now entirely imknown. 



" The people of Lyncestis, in Macedonia, of Illyrian origin and on the 

 frontiers of lUyria. Lyncus was the ancient capital, Heracbea the more 

 modem one. 



12 Probably the inhabitants of the slopes of Mount Othrys. 



" Amantia was properly in Illyria, to the south of the river Aoiis. 

 Leake places it at Nivitza. 



'•* A people of the north of Epirus, on the borders of Macedonia. They 

 were said to have derived their name from Orestes, who, after the murder 

 of his mother, founded in their territory the town of Argos Oresticimi. 



^5 A Greek city of Illyria. Dr. Holland discovered its remains at Gra- 

 ditza on the Aoiis or Viosa. 



1^ The bulwark of the Macedonian maritime frontier to the south. 

 Leake discovered its site near the modem Malathria. 



17 On the right bank of the river Strymon in Thracian Macedonia. It 

 stood on the site of the modem Zervokhori. 



18 A people of Epirus on the borders of Thessaly. 



13 In Mygdonia, at the mouth of the Axius — Bang Perseus put aU its 

 male inhabitants to death. Its site was at or near the modem Kidakia. 



