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FROM THESSALONICA, 
CHAP, remarkable monument. Plutarch^ Fitruvius, Pliny, 
t - - > Aulus Gellius, Stephanusy and the author of the 
Itinerary from Bourdeaux to Jerusalem, all point 
Bromiscui. to its situatiou near Bromiscus, in the Valley 
OF Arethusa'. There is some difference in 
the manner of spelling the name of the city ; — 
some, as Thucydides, writing Bromiscus ; and 
later writers, as Stephanus, transposing the 
second and third letters of the word, and writing 
Bormiscus. By Stephanus, Bormiscus is men- 
tioned as a town of Macedonia, where Euripides 
was lacerated by a kind of dogs, called, in 
the Macedonian tongue, Esteric^^. It would be 
curious to ascertain whether an etymology for 
this name exists in any appellation given to a 
peculiar breed of dogs among the northern 
nations of Europe. Stephanus adds, that from 
the wounds inflicted by the teeth of the 
Of the 
Dogs 
called Es- 
tertccB, 
(1) A Greek epigram of Dionynus asserts, that the poet died of old 
age, and, contradicting the statement made by other authors as to 
the cause of his death, thus mentions the situation of the sepulchre: 
Ou in xvvuii lyivs; eTx* ^l^ivion, ovhi yutaixoi 
Dioni/sii Epigramm. lib. iii. Florileg. c. 25. 
(2) E0PMI2K02, ^^^m^Uv MaKiiotixf ey u xvteffva^ctxres yiyotiv Eu^i^riins' 
eve icuva; T>) •ga.T^ua (piuvn 'E2TEPIKA2 KuXeuffif o'l Muxiiitu- Steiih. 
Byzant. delJih. &c. p. 174. 
