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of the whole region westward to the borders of 
Illyria. Some means of communication must 
still exist along- the Via Ignalia-, from the north 
of the Gulph of Thermn to the Illyrian coast of 
the Jldriatic, which future travellers will do 
well to explore : — for where are the cities of 
Lychnidus', and ^g^, called also Melobotira*, ^'^^'■ 
and more antiently JEdessa^, the regal seat of 
the Macedonian kinofs^? We Qwiere^ Macedonia 
•o 
(2) The wliole passage of Strabo concerning the Via Ignatia should 
V)e read with attention : it defines with great perspicuity the boundaries 
«f Illyria, Epirus, and Macedonia. We shall only insert the following; 
passage, relating to the beginning of its course from Epidamnus to 
Tkessalonica. — 'H^kev eiTv ^ca-ffot, 'lyrarta xxXurai, i dl •jr^airn iwi Kxv^aovtat 
Xiytrai ooavs 'iXkv^txou oia Kuy^viiiov voXiea; xa) TlvXZvo;, vo^oO o^i^ovtci •» 
rri «S* rriv ti 'IkXv^iix xai tm> MaxiOo*Iccv' IxiThv ol Iffri ^cc^oc fia^ouvrx S/i 
'HpxxXtias, xa) AvyxKr^av, xa) 'Ea^Sav, els "EAE2AN xa) IIEAAAN, fitixV 
('jiaaaXovixiias. Sirabon. Geog. lib. vii. p. 468. ed. Oxon, 
(3) See the f^ignette to the next Chapter. Strabo calls it Lychnidius. 
It is thus mentioned by LiVY : " Nuncius ex Macedonia venit, Eropum 
quemdam corrupto arcis praesidiique praefecto, Lychnidum cepisse; 
tenete et Dassaretiorura quosdam vicos et Dardanos etiam concire." 
Livio, Hist. lib. xxvii. c. 32. P/o/e»j^(lib. iii. c. 13) places it in TH/ace- 
donia, in the country of the Dansaretii. 
(4) "Hns xa) MjiXa/Ssrs/ja, x. r. X. — " Scilicet ab ovibus quas pascebat. 
Id enim sonat id nominis." Stephanies de Urbib. p. 32. et Not. 10. 
ed. Gronov. Amst. 1678. 
(5) Stephan. de Urbib. ibid. " Etsi Cosmographo Geographiae, lib. iii. 
c. l:^. Odessa et^gca sunt diversse Emathiae Macedonia; regionis 
urbes." 
{6) Wd. Justin, lib. vii. c. 1 and 2. P/in. Hist. Nat. lib. iv. c. 10. 
torn. I. p. 213. L. Bat. 1635. (" /Egie, in q7io mos sepelire re^fcs.") 
Solin. c. 1 4. Diodor. Sic. lib. xix. c. 53. 
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