[2493] Sacred to Poseidon or Neptune. Now Capo Stavros in Thessaly, the west front of the Gulf of Pagasa, if indeed this is the place here meant.
[2494] On the left or eastern bank of the river Strymon, which flowed round it, whence its name Amphi-polis, “round the city.” Its site is now occupied by a village called Neokhorio, in Turkish Jeni-Keni or “Newtown.” A few remains are still to be seen. The bay at the mouth of the Strymon, now Struma or Kara-Sou, is called the Gulf of Orphano.
[2495] A Thracian people, extending from the river Strymon on the east to Crestonica on the west.
[2496] In Mount Scomius namely, one of the Hæmus or Balkan range.
[2497] Under Alexander the Great. On his death his empire was torn in pieces by the contentions of his generals.
[2498] In allusion to the legendary accounts of the Indian expeditions of Bacchus and Hercules.
[2499] On the conquest of Perseus. Plutarch says that these seventy cities were pillaged in one and the same hour. They were thus punished for their support of Perseus.
[2500] Alexander the Great and Paulus Æmilius.
[2501] Or præfectures, as the Romans called them.