TO THE STRAITS OF THERMOPYLAE. 299 
coast, near to the town of Niccua, adds, that it 
was adjourned until the day following, when it 
was determined that it should be renewed upon 
the shore towards Thronium'' . This city was also 
by a river called Boagrtls, near to its em- 
bouchure. Straho calls this river a torrtnt\ 
Homer gives the same description of its situa- 
tion*. The river which flows from Bodonitza 
into the gulph, is now called Alimdna. This 
could not have been the position of Nic<ea ; for 
this city stood by the sea-shore \ Scm-phe, 
although its situation were elevated*^, was only 
a village between Thronium and Thermopylae ^ 
Hernclca, more antiently Trachis, w^as in the 
Tracliinian Plain ^ upon the norlhern side of the 
alyiaXlf, t'oti fii* ixu^if^wat. l\lybir., lib. svii. cap. 9. tom. IV. p 21 . 
ed. Sclnvei^haeus. Lips. 1790. 
(3) Strabo calls it ^slfiaff'.s. It was dry in certain seasons of the year. 
Yid. Strabon^ Geog. lib. ix. loco cit. 
(4) Qoiniv rt, Jfcay^iou ufi(pi f'ulta. Htmeri Iliad. jS. 553. 
(5) 'Htxa.lx /iiv Wt ^a.Xa.tfa.1 Koxpuv. Stra'on. Geog. lib. ix. p. 6i21. 
ed. Oxon. 
(6) 'H OS "Sxap^Ti xurai i(p' t/'4'#«/j. Ibid. p. 618. 
(7) Yid. Liviuin, Hist. lib. xxxiii. c. 5. tom. III. p. 99. ed. Crev. 
I'aris, 173S. 
(S) 'En Tpa-^/ii/a/,-. fThuci/didestUh.iii. c. 92.) Forty stadia from 
Tlierniiin!jl<T, and twenty from the sea. 
