[2513] On account probably of the winding nature of the roads; as the height of the Balkan range in no part exceeds 3000 feet. With Theopompus probably originated the erroneous notion among the ancients as to its exceeding height.
[2514] The people of Mœsia. The Aorsi and Getæ are again mentioned in C. [25] of this Book.
[2515] The inhabitants of the present Bulgaria, it is supposed.
[2516] Following the account which represent him as a king of the Cicones, and dwelling in the vicinity of Mount Rhodope. The Sithonii here mentioned dwelt about the mouth of the Ister, or Danube, and were a different people from those of Sithonia, in Chalcidice, referred to in a previous note.
[2517] The Sea of Marmora.
[2518] It is difficult to conceive which place of this name is here alluded to, as there seem to have been four places on this coast so called, and all mentioned by Pliny in the present Book.
[2519] Called Æsyma by Homer; between the rivers Strymon and Nestus.
[2520] Now called Kavallo, on the Strymonic Gulf. The site of Datos appears to be unknown.
[2521] Now called Filiba, or Felibejik, on a height of Mount Pangæus, on the river Gangites, between the Nestus and the Strymon. It was founded by Philip, on the site of the ancient town of Crenides, in the vicinity of the gold mines. Here Augustus and Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius, B.C. 42; and here the Apostle Paul first preached the Gospel in Europe, A.D. 53. See Acts xvi. 12.
[2522] Its site seems unknown, but it is evidently a different place from that mentioned in the last Chapter.