X. 
TO THESSALONICA. 391 
many antient marbles and ruins. We heard of chap, 
this Falceo-castro in the whole of this route ; but 
can determine nothing as to its original history. 
That Dium was not there situate, is evident ; 
because Dium was only seven stadia from the 
sea'; yet it seems also plain that the Malathfia 
was the Enipeus, to which Perseus advanced 
upon the retreat of the Roman army ; when the 
fires in his camp were visible to the garrison 
in the citadel of HeracUa. He caused the river, 
as it is said, to serve him instead of an outwork 
and fortification, as its passage was difficult : 
the via militaris, here situate, being the Saltus, 
mentioned by Livi/ as the only pass into Mace- 
donia^. The whole of this district is unfavour- 
able to the passage of an army ; and it is as 
unwholesome and as frightful as any part of the 
Pomptine marshes in Italy. We saw no other 
moving objects than buffaloes, wandering 
through pools filled with reeds, and deep with 
(1) "Or* re A/aK h -r'oXi; eliK Iv ru alyiaXiS row Qiofiaiou xoXtcu l<rrh, If 
ruTs iixupilait rou 'OXin^ou, aXX' oVov ^ uTi)(^li ffTo^icu;. Epitoin. fill. 
Septim. Lib. Strahon. Geog. p. 479. ed. Oxon. 
(2) " Duos enim saltus, per quos inde evadere possent, habebant 
Romani : unutn per Tempe in Thcssuliam, alterum in Maccdoniam 
praeter Diutn." Livio, Hht. lib. xliv. cap. G. torn. III. p. 1)84. cd. 
Crevier. 
