[2523] Also called Mestus.
[2524] Sintica, previously mentioned.
[2525] Now Aco Mamas, at the head of the Toronaic Gulf. It was the most important Greek city on the coast of Macedon. It was taken and destroyed by Philip, B.C. 347, and its inhabitants sold as slaves. Mecyberna, already mentioned, was used as its sea-port.
[2526] On the coast, and east of the river Nestus. Its people were proverbial for their stupidity, though it produced the philosophers Democritus, Protagoras, and Anaxarchus. No traces of its site are to be found.
[2527] Now called the Lagos Buru. The name of the Bistones is sometimes used by the poets for that of the Thracians in general.
[2528] Or mares rather. Diomedes was the son of Ares, or Mars, and king of the Bistones. He was slain by Hercules.
[2529] By some identified with the modern Curnu, by others with Bauron.
[2530] Or Ismarus, at the foot of Mount Ismarus.
[2531] Now Marogna.
[2532] A promontory opposite the island of Samothrace.