58 FROM NEAPOLIS, 
CHAP, which, towards the left, were the ruins of a 
^ -^- ' fortress, and of walls with mural towers. We 
have endeavoured to mark the position of these 
ruins with the more precision, because they 
are unknown. It is impossible that a citadel 
here could have belonged to Abdera, a 
maritime city, at the mouth of the Nestus : 
nor is it easy to say what its name was ; for 
of the Roman colonies, there was not one, 
especially along this territory, but some 
allusion to it may be found in history. Perhaps 
this citadel may have been the asylum of those 
fugitive Pierians, which is alluded to by Tkucydides 
rhagres. uudcr tlic uamc of Phagres': but the event 
to which the origin of Phagres is ascribed, has 
reference to the fifth century before Christ; 
and the style of building visible in these ruins 
can hardly be referred to so remote a period*. 
From this place our journey extended over 
(1) Vide Thucydidem, loco citato. Oay^'/jf, ^roX/j Q^axvjc, teste 
Stephano, lib. de Urbib. &c. p. 685. ed. Gronovii, Amst. 1678. 
Ejus etiam meminit Scylax in G^axn, p. 64. ed. Gronov. L. Bat. 1697. 
(2) For the antiquity of Phagres^ we must allow a period considerably 
exceeding two thousand two hundred years. The foundation of the 
Macedonian empire is by Thticydides ascribed to Alexander of Argos 
in Peloponnesus, father of Perdiccas. The Pierians, driven out of 
their country, established themselves upon the Sinus SLrymonicus, or 
Say of Neupolis; which from them took the name of the Gulph of 
Pieria, 
