[2503] An extensive tribe occupying the country about the rivers Axius, Strymon, and Nestus or Mestus.
[2504] This river is now called the Mesto or Kara-Sou.
[2505] A range between the Strymon and the Nestus, now the Pangea or Despoto-Dagh.
[2506] Probably a canton or division of the Bessi.
[2507] The most powerful people of Thrace; dwelling on both sides of the Artiscus, and on the plain of the Hebrus.
[2508] Now the Maritza. It rises near the point where Mount Scomius joins Mount Rhodope. The localities of most of the tribes here named are unknown.
[2509] The name of this people is often used by the poets to express the whole of Thrace. The district of Edonis, on the left bank of the Strymon, properly extended from Lake Cercinitis as far east as the river Nestus.
[2510] Or “Trouble City,” also called Eumolpias.
[2511] Or “Philip’s City,” founded by Philip of Macedon; still called Philippopoli.
[2512] Because it stood on a hill with three summits. Under the Roman empire it was the capital of the province of Thracia.