96 FROM THE COUNTRY OF THE CICONES, 
CHAP, their descent upon Greece'. The same place is 
. meuLioned by Pliny^, and by ^mmianus Marcel- 
rmus\ The regal citadel was upon the luestern 
side of the embouchure of the Hehrus*; as 
.i=:>ios. ^Nos, called Apsynthus by Straho\ was upon 
the eastern. -The large silver medals of iExos 
(1) Herodol. ib. The spot, however, is not accurately determined. 
According to Belon, there is a fieautiful plain, annually inundated, where 
the Grand Signior pastures above a thousand horses, and the inhabitants 
five hundred besides. Voy. ^e/jn, Observat. in Greet, t.63. Paris, 1555. 
(2) " Mons, Serrium et Zone, turn locus Doriscus decern mill, homi- 
num capax. Ita Xerxes ibi dinumeravit exercitum." Plinio, Hist. Nat. 
lib.iv. o. II. torn. I. p.216. L. Bat. \655. 
(3) Jinviian. Marcell.H'Kt. lib. xviii. c. 15. 
(4) Between the mountain Serrium, and the Hebrus. 
(5) AIN02, iToXii O^axtis, "AH'TNGOS xaXiivf/,U}j, Ir^afim Z,. Slephan. 
Lib. de Urbib. &;c. p. 44. Amst. 1 678. The passage ofStrabo, alluded to by 
Siip/innus, is lost : it was at the end of the Seventh Book. We have this 
account of iENOs in the Pandects of LeuncUivius. " Hsec civitas ( Ygnos) 
Graecisdicitur jEnos etffixos, quorum posterius ipsi pronuntiant lNos,unde 
nomen Ygnos, quod heic in Annalibus legitur, moUi pronuntiatione literoB 
N per Gn, Gracis, et Turcis, etiialis, et Hispanis, qui ii scribunt fami- 
liari. Infer rnelropoles vel archiepisi opatus Thraci(e refertur ab Impera- 
tore Leone in Novella de Thronis Propter .(Enum ^nv'ius Merilza 
vel Hebrus in mare semet exonerat, uti paullo ante dictum ex Praetoie 
nostro. Principes aliquando Catelusios Genuates habuit, sicut et Lesbus 
insula, quum illi a civibus arcessiti temporibus Imperatorum Grfficorum 
inter se discordiura, urbis defensionem suscepissent, sicut apud Laonicum 
legitur. Castaldus Enio scripsit, quod duabus (ut opinor) syllabis enun- 
tiandum. Antonius Bonfinius in Historiis Vngaricis corruptius Eniam 
vocavit, quum anno 1469 Nicolaum Canalem prsefectum Venctje classis 
Eniam T/iracice urbem direptam incendisse tradit." C/ialcoruli'l. Athen. 
Hist, de Reb. Turcic. ;>. 413. Paris, 1650. 
