TO THE COUNTRY OF THE CICONES. 85 
o( Homer' and Virpl\ It afterwards bore the chap. 
name of Ma rone a. Stephanus mentions the v_, ' 
Lake Marts*, whence Mary. This was the 
renowned city of the Ci cones which expe- 
rienced the vindictive rage of Ulysses, when it 
was reduced by him to the condition in which 
we now beheld Fairy ' ; and in an age when the 
predatory warfare of these countries was much 
the same it now is. The armed mountaineers 
of Rhodope may be considered as the faithful 
representatives of the aUies of Priam: their 
manners have been as little softened by any 
effect of civilization. What a night did we pass 
among them, in the cofFee-booth at Fairy/ 
While day-light remained, few of them made 
(3) Odyss. ix. ver. 40 and 198. The Lake Ismaris is also men- 
tioned by Herodotus: vid. lib. vii. c 10.9. p. 415. ed. CronovH. 
L. Bat. 1715. 
(3) " Juvat Ismara Baccho 
"^Conserere, alque olea magnum vestire Taburnum." 
Geor^tc. lib. ii. p. 44. L. Bui. \S?,(i. 
" Nee tantum Rhodnpe miratur, et Ismarus Orpliea." 
Bucolic. Eclog- vi. p. 16. 
" Ismarii conjux longaeva Dorycli." 
jEneid. lib. iv. p. 196. 
" Te quoque nia^nanimae videruiit Jsmare gentes 
*' Vulnera dirigere." . Jbid. lib. x. p. 300. 
(4) MAPflNEIA, iriXif Kixcvlaf, Kara, T»iv i> @^ecKi) x^ppevnre*. 'E» St, 
Xifivfi MAPIS- iv Si Ma^civiict xiXii- Sti'ph. Lib. de Urbib. p. 445. Anut. 
1678. 
(5) 'IXiihv fit (p'isu)i ari/Jiis Ktuctlfft •rikamv, 
']2M.^P^.1• s'vi'a S' i'/u rri?.tv iVja^ov, aiXitx 9 auTeus. »■ 7. P.. 
Odyss. lib. ix. 59. 
