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g8eum\ passing among the Elethi, the Diobessi^, the Carhi- 
lesi; and then the Brysse, the Sapsei, and the Odomanti. 
The territory of the Odrysse^ gives birth to the Hebrus^, its 
banks being inhabited by the Cabyleti, the Pyrogeri, the 
Drugeri, the Caenici, the Hypsalti, the Beni, the Corpili, 
the Bottisei, and the Edoni^. In the same district are also the 
Selletae, the Priantae, the Doloncse, the Thyni, and the 
Greater Coeletse, below Mount Haemus, the Lesser at the 
foot of Ehodope. Betw^een these tribes runs the river He- 
brus. We then come to a town at the foot of E^hodope, 
first called Poneropolis^, afterwards Philippopolis^ irom the 
name of its founder, and now, from the peculiarity of its 
situation, Trimontium^. To reach the summit of Hsemus 
you have to travel six^ miles. The sides of it that look in 
the opposite direction and slope towards the Ister are in- 
habited by the Moesi^°, the Gretse, the Aorsi, the Gaudae, and 
the Clariae ; below them, are the Arraei Sarmatae^^ also called 
Arreatae, the Scythians, and, about the shores of the Euxine, 
the Moriseni and the Sithonii, the forefathers of the poet 
Orpheus dwell. 
^ A range between the Strymon and the Kestns, now the Pangea or 
Despoto-Dagh. 2 Probably a canton or division of the Bessi. 
3 The most powerful people of Thrace j dwelling on both sides of the 
Artiscus, and on the plain of the Hebrus. 
^ Now the Maritza. It rises near the point where Mount Scomius 
joins Mount Ehodope. The locahties of most of the tribes here named 
are unknown. 
^ The name of this people is often used by the poets to express the 
whole of Thrace. The district of Edonis, on the left bank of the Strymon, 
properly extended from Lake Cercinitis as far east as the river Nestus. 
6 Qy a Trouble City," also called Eumolpias. 
[ Or "Phihp's City;" founded by Phihp of Macedon; stiH caUed 
PhilippopoU. 
^ Because it stood on a hiU with three summits. Under the Koman 
.empire it was the capital of the province of Thracia. 
® On account probably of the winding nature of the roads ; as the 
height of the Balkan range in no part exceeds 3000 feet. With Theo- 
pompus probably originated the erroneous notion among the ancients as 
to its exceeding height. 
The people of Moesia, The Aorsi and Gretse are again mentioned in 
C. 25 of this Book. 
The inhabitants of the present Bulgaria, it is supposed. 
Following the account which represent him as a king of the Cicones, 
and dwelling in the vicinity of Mount Khodope. The Sithonii here men- 
