[2533] A town on a promontory of the same name, said to have been frequented by Orpheus.
[2534] The Plain of Doriscus is now called the Plain of Romigik. Parisot suggests the true reading here to be 100,000, or, as some MSS. have it, 120,000, there being nothing remarkable in a plain containing 10,000 men. Pliny however does not mention it as being remarkable, but merely suggests that the method used by Xerxes here for numbering his host is worthy of attention.
[2535] Now the Maritza. At its mouth it divides into two branches, the eastern forming the port of Stentor.
[2536] Still called Enos.
[2537] A son of Priam and Hecuba, murdered by Polymnestor, king of the Thracian Chersonesus, to obtain his treasures. See the Æneid, B. iii.
[2538] From the Greek, μάκρον τεῖχος.
[2539] Now the Gulf of Enos.
[2540] Now Ipsala, or Chapsylar, near Keshan.
[2541] Now Rodosto, or Rodostshig, on the coast of the Propontis, or Sea of Marmora.
[2542] Now called the Peninsula of the Dardanelles, or of Gallipoli. The wall was built to protect it from incursions from the mainland.