[2423] On the Dotian Plain, mentioned by Hesiod, and probably the same place that Pindar calls Lacereia.
[2424] The birth-place of Protesilaüs, the first victim of the Trojan war.
[2425] Nothing is known of this place. The word “porro” appears instead of it in some editions.
[2426] Philip, the Conqueror of Greece, and Alexander, the Conqueror of Asia.
[2427] The original Emathia, as mentioned by Homer, is coupled with Pieria as lying between the Hellenic cities of Thessaly and Pæonia, and Thrace.
[2428] A tribe of the south-west of Mœsia, and extending over a part of Illyricum. According to Strabo, they were a wild race, of filthy habits, living in caves under dunghills, but fond of music.
[2429] A people of Mœsia, mentioned in C. [29] of the last Book.
[2430] Supposed by some writers to be the same place as Edessa. Ansart says it is the spot now known as Moglena.
[2431] Now Verria in Roumelia. St. Paul and Silas withdrew to this place from Thessalonica. The remains are very considerable.
[2432] Described by Livy as of great strength. It occupied the site of the modern Stagus.