418 FROM THE VALE OF TEMPE, 
CHAP, the embouchure of the Haliacmon was to the 
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- north of Diumy in Pieria ; and that the city of 
Pydna occurred in the same district, bearing 
the appellation of Kitron. The same may be 
gathered from Ptolemy; only with this diffe- 
rence, that the places are enumerated in a con- 
trary order, from north to south \ It is desirable 
to fix with certainty the position of a place 
rendered so remarkable in history. It was in 
the plain before Pydna^ that the great battle 
was fought between the Macedonians and the 
Romans, when the former, by their signal defeat, 
forfeited for ever their freedom, and Macedonia 
["m'^^ became a Roman province'. The conspicuous 
donians. tomh bcforc mentioned decidedly marks the 
spot ; and its immense magnitude is explained 
by the event of that battle, when twenty-five 
thousand of the Macedonian army were left dead 
(1) Tln^ia;. Ku&!ou vrora/iou IxjiiKai. DTANA, 'AXiax/iatog irorafcti 
iitfiiXeu AION xeXatiia, Ptotemeei Geog, 
(2) 'En ^1» «5v Tu tr^ii Tint Tluivni iriViu, 'PafiaToi t^aict n»ara<r«Xi/Ks- 
«w*r«f, xxhT>.t» rhv rut l/laxtiituv (iaffiXdav. Excerpta ex Libri VII. 
fine Strabon. Geog. p. 749. ed. Oxon. 
(3) This battle was fought on the twenty-second of June, B. c. 168; 
when twenty-five thousand men of the army of Perseus king of 
fitacedon were slain by the Romans within the compass of an hour- 
It began at three o'clock in the afternoon, and ended before four. 
Vid. PhUareh, in Fit. Paul. JEm. &e. 
