Et sacer admissas exigit Hebrus aquas.
But Virgil, who, as appears from his geography of Troy, was not so well acquainted with these parts, says: Aen. i. ℣. 321.
Volucremque fuga praevertitur Hebrum.
[107] Zosimus, Lib. ii. p. 95. ed. Oxon. Καθ’ ὃ τωνος εειος ποταμὸς τῷ Ἑβρῳ συμβάλλει.
[108] Ibidem.
[109] See Pythagorae Symbolum, Προσκυνεῖν περιφερόμενος, apud Lil. Gyrald. Tom. ii. p. 669. edit. 1696.
[110] So Justin describing the rites of Bacchus, with which the soldiers of Alexander were inspired says: Exercitus ejus repentino impetu mentis in sacros dei ululatus instinctus, cum stupore regis, sine noxa discurrit. Lib. xii. c. 7.
[111] See this sect described, and called Tzophilar, by Hottinger, Hist. orient. pag. 365.
[112] Concerning the longevity of the Aemimontian Thracians see Amm. Marc. L. xxvii. c. 4.
[113] Here I happily attained that wish of Virgil, Georg. Lib. ii. ℣. 488.