204 ALEXANDER S THRACIAN GUIDES. 



possibly be an abbreviation of the name of the 

 town. This conjecture is founded on a passage 

 in Arrian. In that author's history it is stated 

 that the guides who led the second division 

 of Alexander's army, — that part of it which 

 marched to Pamphylia by the mountain route, — 

 were Thracians. Why Thracians should have 

 been selected to conduct the troops through this 

 out-of-the-way part of Lycia, has been a point of 

 difficulty to translators and commentators, which 

 some have got over by supposing that Thracian 

 pioneers of the army, who cleared the road for 

 its advance, were intended, and not guides 

 selected on account of their knowledge of the 

 country, as the original text would seem to imply. 

 But if the ruined city at Sarahagik be Apollonia, 

 the Thracian colony, the difficulty of the passage 

 vanishes ; for, than the inhabitants of this city, 

 whoever they were, no fitter guides could have 

 been chosen through these mountain passes, in 

 the very centre of which they lived. Moreover, 

 this would account for the unopposed march of 

 the army through this dangerous and easily 

 defended pass, which could hardly have been the 

 case had the people of the city in question been 

 unfriendly ; as, were it Marmora, they would 



