420 FROM THE VALE OF TEMPE, 
CHAP, between Hannibal and the Romans, under Fla- 
X. 
' „i, /-. » minius \ near the Lake Thrasymenus, near 
Perusia, fifteen thousand Romans were left dead 
upon the field : yet there is no tumulus of this 
kind to mark the spot ; insomuch that it is not 
now precisely known where the battle of Thra- 
symene took place ; some believing it to have 
happened at Ossaia, and others at the Ponte 
Sanguinetto, between Torricella and Crotona. 
But the PoLYANDRiUM of the battle of Pydna, 
like that in the Plain of Marathon, and the 
others here alluded to, is a conspicuous, nay, 
almost an everlasting monument, of that san- 
guinary conflict ; and the Albanian shepherds, 
tending their flocks around it, although uncon- 
scious of its covering the mouldered rehcs of 
their ancestors, are the unaltered descendants 
of the same race of heroes who fought and died 
for the liberties of Macedon; — "mighty men, 
as of old, men of renown ; girded with the 
Transac- wcapous of war." This place has been ren- 
tions at ^ 
Pydna. dcrcd memorable for the shedding of other 
blood than that which flowed so copiously in 
the battle of Pydna : it was here that Cassander 
massacred Olympias the mother, Roxana the wife. 
(I) Fought iu the year 217 b. c. 
