TO CONSTANTINOPLE. 125 
therefore received the name of the older city ; chap. 
and thus to account for the appellation of Eski > "^' . 
Eregli ; especially as it has never been ascer- 
tained when the name of HeradSa was sub- 
stituted for that of Perinthus. In the post- 
humous Commentary of Holstenius (the best 
elucidator of antient geography) upon the work 
of Stephanus Byzantinus, as it was edited by 
Theodore de Ryck, there is a description given 
of ^ medal of Perinthus': this in front exhibited 
the head of Hercules, with the legend TON 
KTIZTHN ; and for reverse, the club of Her- 
cules, around which appeared FlEPINOinN B 
NEHKOPIiN. The reason therefore is evident 
why Perinthus took the name of Heraclea; 
although it be unknown when this change was 
introduced \ It was the most considerable 
of all the maritime cities of Thrace; and is 
described, in the Itinerary of jintoninus, as 
situate between Tyrallum and Ccenophrurion* . 
We saw nothins: of tlie remains of the Macron- -'^^«f/"""- 
^ t?chos. 
tichos, or long tvall, constructed by Anastasius 
(2) Liiccc Holstenii Nota et Castigationes PostumcE in Stephani 
Byzimtii E0NIKA, p. 251. L. Bat. 1684. 
(3) *' Sedquo tempore nomen hoc obtinuerit non satis inter doctos 
exploratum est." Vide Tristanum, torn. II. p. 80. Jbid. 
(4) See also Herodotus, lib. iv. c. 90; lib. v. cc. I, 2, 41 ; lib. vi. 
c. 33. ed. Gronov. L. Bat. 1716. 
