TO CONSTANTINOPLE. 97 
are the boldest specimens of the very antient chap. 
coinage of Greece. We had the good fortune ■ / ' 
to procure one of the finest of these coins at 
Kishan : it will presently be described. There 
were^te cities of this name; but the Thracian 
jExos was the most renowned. It received 
its denomination from one of the companions 
of Ulysses, who was there buried °; and it is 
celebrated by Homer'' as the city whence the 
Trojan auxiliaries came from Thrace. Ac- 
cording to Livy, it was near to Maronea*. 
There is a valuable passage in Herodotus, 
respecting the Hebrus, which has escaped the 
notice of geographers : it mentions the names 
of all the tributary streams received by this 
river in its course ' ; and among others. Teams, River 
n 11/ 1 1 T-v • Teams. 
at whose stream a Stele was erected by Darim, 
with a remarkable inscription preserved by the 
(6) " Sic very vocata fuit ab Ulyssis socio illic sepulto, lit Euphorio> 
et Callimachus apud Senium ad iEneid. lib.iii. v.l8." \'id. Animadv . 
in Stephan. Lib. de Urbib. &c. p. 44. Not. 88. Amsl. 1678. 
(7) ffaXt Si ©jjixwv ayo; avi^ar, 
Xlti^us ' Ifi^oaff'iln;, St ao' Ai'ycVfv tiXvXeuHi. J/tarf. A. 590. 
(8) Liv. Hist. lib. xxxi. c. 16. ed. Crevier. 
(9) 'EkUoTH 0TEAPO2 oSrts li riv KONTAAESAON TCTXftir i 
Ji jtsyraSiirJo;, I; riy 'ATPIANHN' h' Ay^iavtis, U 'roy"EBPO'S' «?«,£< 
tiXMitai T>)» 9it( AINiil -r'o'Ki. {Herodot. lib. iv. c. 90. p. 251. ed. 
Gronovii.) The names are different in Plinv. " Flumina in Hebrutn 
cadentia, Bargus, StEMUS.'' Hist. Nat. lib. iv. c. II. torn. I. p. 218. 
L. Bat. 1635. 
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