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nations of Pseonia^ the Paroraei^, the Eordenses^, the Al- 
mopii'^, the Pelagones, and the Mygdones^ 
Next come the mountains of Ehodope, 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 ^straeenses, the AUantenses, the 
Audaristenses, the Morylli, the Garesci^^, the Lyncestae^^ the 
Othryonei^^, and the Amantini^^ and Orestae^^, both of them 
free peoples ; the colonies of BuUis^^ and Dium^^, the Xylo- 
politaB, the Scotussaei, a free people, Heraclea Sintica^'^, the 
Tymphaei^^, and the Toronaei. 
Upon the coast of the Macedonian Grulf there are the 
town of Chalastra^^, and, more inland, Piloros ; also Lete, 
1 Or Thrace. 2 People of Parorsea in Thrace. 
3 The people probably of Eordeea, already mentioned. 
^ Leake thinks that Almopia was the name of the district now called 
Moglena. 
^ 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 Yardhari. 
9 Their district of Doberus is supposed to have been near the modern 
Doghiran. 
^0 It has been suggested that Garescus stood on the same site as the 
modern Nm-ocopo. Many of these peoples are now entirely unknown. 
^1 The people of Lyncestis, in Macedonia, of lUyrian origin and on the 
frontiers of lUyria. Lyncus was the ancient capital, Heraclsea the more 
modern one. 
12 Probably the inhabitants of the slopes of Mount Othrys. 
13 Amantia was properly in Illyria, to the south of the river Aoiis. 
Leake places it at Nivitza. 
1'* 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 Oresticum. 
15 A Greek city of Illyria. Dr. Holland discovered its remains at Gra- 
ditza on the Aoiis or Yiosa. * 
1^ The bulwark of the Macedonian maritime frontier to the south. 
Leake discovered its site near the modern Malathria. 
17 On the right bank of the river Strymon in Thracian Macedonia. It 
stood on the site of the modern Zervokhori. 
1^ A people of Epirus on the borders of Thessaly. 
1^ In Mygdonia, at the mouth of the Axius — King Perseus put all its 
male inhabitants to death. Its site was at or near the modem Kulakia, 
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