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then come to Mount Serriuni^ and Zone^, and then the 

 place called Doriscus^, capable of containing ten thousand 

 men, for it was in bodies of ten thousand that Xerxes here 

 numbered his army. We then come to the mouth of the 

 Hebrus*, the Port of Stentor, and the free towTi of jEnos*, 

 with the tomb there of Poljdorus^, the region formerly of 

 the Cicones. 



From Doriscus there is a winding coast as far as TVIacron 

 Tichos^ or the " Long Wall," a distance of 122 miles ; 

 round Doriscus flows the river Melas, from which the Gulf 

 of Melas^ receives its name. The towns are, Cypsela*, 

 Bisanthe^", and Macron Tichos, already mentioned, so called 

 because a wall extends from that spot between the two 

 seas, — that is to say, from the Propontis to the Gulf of 

 Melas, thus excluding the Chersonesus", which projects 

 beyond it. 



The other side of Thrace now begins, on the coast ^" 

 of the Euxine, where the river Ister discharges itself; and 

 it is in this quarter perhaps that Thrace possesses the finest 

 cities, Histropolis^^, namely, founded by the Milesians, 



1 A promontory opposite the island of Samothrace. 



^ A town on a promontory of the same name, said to have been fre- 

 quented by Orpheus. 



' The Plain of Doriscus is now called the Plain of Romigik. Parisot 

 suggests the true reading here to be 100,000, or, as some MSS. have 

 it, 120,000, there being nothing remarkable in a plain containing 10,000 

 men. Pliny however does not mention it as being remarkable, but 

 merely suggests that the method used by Xerxes here for nimibering 

 his host is worthy of attention. 



^ Now the Maritza. At its mouth it divides into two branches, th^ 

 eastern forming the port of Stentor. ^ g^iu called Enos. 



^ A son of Priam and Hecuba, murdered by Polymnestor, king of the 

 Thracian Chersonesus, to obtain his treasures. See the -^neid, B. iii, 



7 From the Greek, fiaKpov relxos. 8 ^q^^ th© Gulf of Enos. 



^ Now Ipsala, or Chapsylar, near Keshan. 



10 Now Rodosto, or Eodostshig, on the coast of the Propontis, or Sea 

 of Marmora. 



" Now called the Peninsiila of the Dardanelles, or of GallipoH. The 

 wall was bmlt to protect it from incursions from the mainland. 



12 He here skips nearly five degrees of latitude, and at once proceeds to 

 the northern parts of Thrace, at the mouth of the Danube, and moves to 

 the south. 



13 Or, the "city of the Ister," at the south of Lake Halmyris, on the 

 Euxine. Its site is not exactly known ; but by some it is supposed to 



, have been the same with that of the modem Kostendsje. 



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