28 FROM THESSALONICA, 
the mouth of the Strymox : the river flowed 
round it, being upon either side, and from this 
circumstance the city was called by its founder 
Amphipolis\ The place where it stood had 
been formerly denominated the Nine Ways. Its 
origin, when Thucydides wrote, was not of 
antient date. It w^as founded by Agnon son of 
Nicias, who, at the head of an Athenian colony, 
built a city here, sixty-one years after the first 
Persian invasion ^ The loss of Amphipolis 
was severely felt by the Athenians, who had 
been accustomed to derive from it, besides an 
annual revenue in money, a supply of timber 
for their navy. The different style of masonry, 
and the mixture of Grecian and Roman work, 
visible among the ruins of this city, is explained 
in the circumstances of its history : it was 
ruined and rebuilt more than once. Although 
antient geographers have scarcely mentioned 
"Sr^uftovo;. Thucyd.Wh.'w. c. 102. p. 272. eA. Hudsoni. 
(2) The first attempt to found a city here was made by Aristaem'aS 
the Milesian, after his flight from Darius; but it was frustrated by 
the Edonians. Thirty-two years afterwards, says Thucydides, the 
Athenians sent hither a colony, which was destroyed by the Thracians : 
and in the twenty-ninth year after this event, another colony, led by 
.<#§-now son of iVirifli, founded Amphipolis. There is no instance of 
any Grecian city whose history is more explicitly and fully illus- 
trated. Vid. Thucydidem, lib. iv. cap. 102. p. 272. ed. Hudsoni. 
