300 pliny's katxjeal histoey. [BoaklY. 
and at the extreme bend of the Gulf, Thessalonica^ a free 
city; (from this place to Dyrrhachium it is 245 miles^,) 
and then Thermae^. Upon the Grulf"* of Thermsg are the 
towns of Dicsea, Pydna^, Derra, Scione^, the Promontory of 
Canastrseum", and the towns of Pallene^ and Phlegra. In this 
region also are the mountains Hypsizorus, Epitus, Halcyone, 
and Leoomne ; the towns of Njssos^, Phryxelon, Mendae, and 
what was formerly Potidsea^^ on the isthmus of Pallene, but 
now the Colony of Cassandria; Anthemus^\01ophyxus^^,and 
the Gulf of Mecyberna^^ ; the towns ofMiscella, Ampelos^^, 
Torone^^, Singos^^, and the canal, a mile and a half in length, 
by means of which Xerxes, king of the Persians, cut off Mount 
Athos^'' from the main land. This mountain projects from 
^ Now Saloniki. Its original name was Thermae, but it was first made 
an important city by Cassander, B.C. 315, who gave it its new name in 
honour of his wife, the sister of Alexander the Great : St, Paul visited it 
about A.D. 53, and two years after addressed from Corinth two Epistles 
to his converts in the city. 
2 Poly bins says, in Strabo, B. vii., 267 miles. 
,3 As already mentioned. Thermae became merged in Thessalonica, when 
refounded by Cassander under that name. Now the Gulf of Saloniki. 
^ This is probably an error. Pydna, already mentioned, lay far inland 
in the district of Pieria. 
On the peninsula of Pallene. Its male inhabitants were put to death 
by tlie Athenians in the Peloponnesian war. 
7 Now Capo Paliuri, the extreme point of the Isthmus of Pallene.. 
^ The most westerly of the three peninsulas of Chalcidice. Plilegra is 
generally understood to have been its former name. 
9 Perhaps the same as Nyssa, between the rivers Nestus or Mestus, and 
Strymon. 
Its ruins are now caUed Pinaka. It was a colony of the Corinthians, 
but refounded by Cassander, ICing PhiUp having previously destroyed the 
South-east of Thessalonica, and north of Chalcidice. It was given 
by King Phihp to the Olynthians. jS'ear Mount Athos. 
13 Now Mohvo, at the head of the Toronaic Gulf, part of which thence 
took its name. 
The name of a promontory at the extremity of the peninsula of Si- 
thonia, in Chalcidice. It seems to correspond with the modern Cape 
Kartali. 
1^ In the district of Chalcidice, on the S.W. of the peninsula of 
Sithonia. 
16 On the east of the peninsula of Sithonia. It gave its name to the 
Sinus Singiticus or Singitic Gulf. 
17 Now Monte Santo, at the end of the long peninsula runnhig out 
from Chalcidice. 
