TO THESSALONICA. 417 
Kitros is indisputably the Macedonian Kydna, a chap. 
name antiently corrupted into the more memo- ■. / - 
rable appellation of Pydna', whose geogra- Pudna. 
phical position is pointed out by an observa- 
tion of Livy, when- he states that JEnia, upon 
the other side of the gulph, fifteen miles to the 
south of Thessalonica, was opposite to Pydxa^. 
The alteration of Kydna into Pydna, as men- 
tioned by Siephanus, must have been a corrup- 
tion of the earhest antiquity ; for, before the 
time of Herodotus, it was written Pydna by 
Scylax of Caryanda': however, there is some 
testimony, even in its modern name, of the 
truth of the remark made by Stephanus ; — if a 
name may be called modern, which is mentioned 
in the epitome of Straho*. Here we learn that 
(1) Ctdna is the name of this city, as written by Pomponius Mela. 
Also Stephanus, KTANA, triXi; Maxiittia;- Qtayivr,; h Maici^a»)co7s. °H 
Kara, ^aoaifhoav IITANA Xiyirar To ihiKav, IITANAIOS. Stephanus 
de Urbib. p. 392. et Not. 55. Amst. 1678. In the text of Stcphmiut, 
it is wiitten lUla -, but his Commentator proves that it ought to be 
written OiiSva. 
(2) " Revocatis igitur in naves militibus, omissaque ThessalonicsB 
oppugnatione, jEniam inde petunt : quindecim millia passuum ea 
urbs abest, adversvis Pydnam posita, fertili agro." Livii Hist, 
lib. xliv. cap. 10. torn. III. p. 639. ed. Crevier. 
(3) Ilvlut ■jr'oXit 'EXXjivi's. Scylax in MaKt^ofia. Vid. Peripl. p. 61. 
eA. J. Gronov. L. Bat. 1697. 
(4) "Oti fiirk TO A('»v vcXin, o ' AXtaxfiui Tirafios if Tit, x.r.X. i» ri xx) 
«i\it HTANA, n tvr KITPOM xaXiiTai. Excerpta ex Lib. VII. fine 
Strabon. Geog. p. 479. ed. Oxon. 
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