120 FROM THE COUNTRY OF THE CICONES, 
CHAP, the circumstance of the latter having taken the 
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name of Rhc^destus. It is placed by Ptolemy^ in 
Thrace, which corrects an error of Stephanus', 
who assigns it a situation in Macedonia, near 
to Thrace. Ptolemy says it was called Rha- 
desta. Benjamin ofTudela is the first writer by 
whom it is named Rodosto^ : he describes it as a 
Jeivish University, near to Constantinople, distant 
two days' journey from Pera. According to ^^e- 
phanus, Bisanthe was a Samian colony; and it was 
considered as the native place of an elegiac poet> 
of the name of Phcedimus*. This is the same 
town which Pliny calls Resistox, although he 
mentions Bisanthe and Resiston as two distinct 
places \ Rhodosto contains ten thousand houses. 
It has more Greeks than Turks for its in- 
habitants, besides Armenians and Jews. The 
whole commerce of the place consists in the 
exportation of corn, luine, Jhh, and ivool, to 
(1) Vide Ptolemmum, lib. iii. cap. 11. 
(2) BI2AN0H, rroXis MaKi^ina.; xitra, Q^uxnv, «. t. X. Stcfha7l. BlJ- 
zunt. de Urbib. &c. p. 168. Amst. 1678. 
(3) It is however falsely printed Doroston in the edition by Bcncd. 
Aria Mnntaniis, printed at Antwerp, by Plantin, in 1575. " Inde 
duorum diermn nacigatione in Doroston veni, ubi IsraeVUcirum univer- 
sitas," Sic. It'inerarium Betijafuini, p. 32. Antv. ]5'7o. 
(4) 'A^' '^s 4>AIAIM02 ikiytiaiv foinrris Biffcci^nvis, x. r. X. Of this 
poet Phccdimits, no mention has been made by any other writer. 
(5) PZ/n. Hist. Nat. lib.iv.cap.il. tcm. I. pp.216, 217. L.Bat.lGoo. 
