FROM THESSALONICA, 
which, according to the Idnerarium Hierosoly- 
mitanum, was only ten miles from (Cavallo) 
Neapolis'. Belon saw its ruins in the sixteenth 
century, and spent two days in their examina- 
tion. He found there the remains of a magnifi- 
cent jimphitheatre ; and a number of Soroi, of 
the marble of the place, of such magnitude, 
that nothing to compare with them existed any 
where else". He mentions, moreover, the co- 
lossal remains of a Temple of Claudius, besides 
inscriptions, and numberless (iri/inies) statues; and 
enormous marble columns, both of the Doric and 
Ionic order, beautifully sculptured, and in a 
" Vers ce mesme temps le Marquis de Moniserrat partit de Thessa- 
lonique, et vint d Serres qiie le Bulgare luy avoit ruinee, laquelle il 
referma de nouveau : ensevible vne autre j'loce appellee Drame, en la 
vallee de Philippi." Geoffroy de Ville-Hardouin, de la Conqueste de 
Constantinople, c. 238. p. 189. Paris, 1657. Du Fresne, in his 
Notes upon this passage, says, that the true name for Dramine is Drama 
(p. 351). He r^iets to Nicephorus Gregor. lib. vii. Cantacusene, lib. i. 
c. 52. &c. &c. 
(1) It was situate upon the side of a hill: and from the number of its 
neighbouring fountains, it had originally the name of Kj^v/Ssj. Appian 
lib. iv. Bell. Civ. p. 1040. Hierosol. Itinerar. ap. Vet. Rom, Itin. 
p. 603. ed. Wsssel. 
(2) " II n'y a lieu ou Ton puisse voir de plus grands sepulchres de 
pierres de raarbre par les champes, qu' a Philippi, qui ont este prinses en 
la montagne, qui est enfermee es murailles dedens le circuitdc la villee: car 
elles sont massives de pur marbre blanc. L'on voit encor maintenant 
plusieurs escrits restez des gestes des Romains, entailles en letlres Latines 
sur le marbre en plusieurs endroicts de la montagne." Premier Livre 
des Singularitez observees par Belon, c, 56- f. 51. Paris, 1555. 
