400 FROM THE VALE OF TEMPE, 
CHAP. Ascordus ' ? or how shall we discriminate between 
X. 
. V , ^ the widely -overfioiving course of the Baphyrus* 
and that of the Enipeus^^. and what becomes of 
the Haliacmon, which Livy only once mentions*? 
According to him, there were two pylce into 
Macedonia, each of which he calls a saltus ; 
meaning, evidently, a narrow pass, with a paved 
causeway (via militaris), that might be easily 
defended. Tempe was one of these ; and there 
was another near Dium. The latter saltus could 
be nothing more than a causeway to facilitate the 
passage of the Mauro-Nero and Pellica, or, as we 
have before suggested, of the Malathr'ia, where 
its remains now exist. In describing the latter, 
he says that the whole space between Olympus 
and the sea was here only a mile ; one half 
of which was occupied by the mouth of the 
Baphyrus, "late restagnans," and the rest by 
Situation the Temple of Jupiter and the town of Dium, 
leaving only a very small portion, which could 
be easily fortified. Then he describes the Mace- 
donian king, Perseus, as abandoning this passage. 
(1) " Progressus inde diei iter, ad Ascordum tlumea posuit castra." 
Livio, Hist. lib. xliv. c. 7. torn. IH. p. 685. ed. Crevier. 
(2) " Lat& restajnans 2?a/>//yri aninis." Jbid. p. 6§5. 
(S) " Deinde quinque miilia passiiuui ab urbe citra ripam JUnipei 
amnis castra ponit." Ibid. p. 687. 
(4) Ibid. lib. xlii. cap. 53._tom. III. p. C33. 
oi Dium. 
