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river southwards towards Dium; because, ac- chap. 
cording to the older authority of Scylax, enu- ■ 
merating the places from south to north, along 
the western side of the Gulph of Thermuy 
this river occurred after passing the city of 
Methone*. It was at the siege of Methone 
that Philip lost the sight of his right eye, when 
struck by an arrow from the citadel ; a circum- 
stance perhaps as well attested as any fact in 
history, being related by Strabo\ by Diodorus^> 
by Pliny \ by Solinus, and by Justin^. With 
regard to the particular river across which 
Philip swum upon that occasion, as to most 
of the others crossing this route in their passage 
from Olympus, there will always be some uncer- 
tainty ; unless their antient names were to be 
determined by a residence in the country; 
(4) rii/Snoc ToXif 'EXXvvifi Mi^«»x ToXi; 'EXXtivU, *«' 'AXixitfiaiv Tarm/nif, 
K. T. X. Scylaci.1 Caryandensis Periplus, p. 61. 
(5) 'E» Ss ri <r^o rris Mi^dyri; wtiiif, yiiiffSai irvti(iti rcf 'biXi^^at r^ 
^ AfAvtrou rri* ixxeTtlt Ttu ^i^iou i^faXfiou KctraTtXriXM (iiXid, xara, viit 
■nXii^Kiiti rris ToXiaii. Excerpta ex Lib. VII. Strabon. Geog. p. 479. 
cd. Oxon. 
(6) Vid. Diodor. Sic. lib.xvi. 
(7) P/m. Hist. Nat. lib. iv. cap. 9- 
(8) " Cum Melhonam urbem oppugnaret, in prxtereuntem demuris 
sagitta jacta dextnim oculum regis efTodit." Justin, Hist. lib. vii. 
cap. 6. 
