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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 Aloritse^, 
the Yallsei^^, the Phylacsei, the Cyrrhestse^^ the Tyrissaei, 
the colony of Pella^^, and Stobi^^, a town with the rights of 
Eoman citizens. Next comes Antigonea^^, Europus^^ upon 
the river Axius, and another place of the same name by 
which the Ehoedias flows, Scydra, Eordsea, Mieza, and Gror- 
dynise. Then, upon the coast, Ichnse^^, 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 Yerria in RomneHa. St. Paul 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 
modern Stagus. 
Surnamed Lyncestis ; the chief town of Tipper Macedonia. It must 
have stood not far from the modern town of Felurina. 
^ Now the Platamona. 
^ Now Kitron. The Romans usually called it Citron or Citrus. 
7 In the inmost recess of the Thermaic Gulf. Leake supposes it to 
have occupied the site of the present Palea Khora, near Kapsokhori. 
^ Now the Yistritza, by the Turks called Inje-Karra. Csesar calls it 
the boundary between Macedonia and Thessaly. 
9 The people apparently of Aloros just mentioned. 
^0 YaUse and Phylacse appear to have been two towns of Pieria. 
The people of Cyrrhus ; probably on the site of the present 
Vistritza. Leake however makes a place called Paleokastro to occupy its 
site. Tyrissse was probably in its vicinity. 
12 Now AlakHsi, 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 
Pella. Its ruins are still 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 Pella. 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. 
1^ Coupled by Herodotus with PeUa. Eordsea seems to have been the 
name of the district on the river Eordaicus, identified with the modern 
Devol. 
17 They dwelt in the vicinity of Mount Scomium. The river Axius is 
the modern Yardhari. 
