[2543] He here skips nearly five degrees of latitude, and at once proceeds to the northern parts of Thrace, at the mouth of the Danube, and moves to the south.
[2544] Or, the “city of the Ister,” at the south of Lake Halmyris, on the Euxine. Its site is not exactly known; but by some it is supposed to have been the same with that of the modern Kostendsje.
[2545] Now Temesvar, or Jegni Pangola, the capital of Scythia Minor. It was said to have been so called from the Greek τέμνω, “to cut,” because Medea here cut to pieces the body of her brother Absyrtus. It is famous as the place of Ovid’s banishment; and here he wrote his ‘Tristia’ and his ‘Pontic Epistles.’
[2546] Usually identified with the modern Collat, or Collati.
[2547] Its site does not appear to be known, nor yet those of many of the towns here mentioned.
[2548] This story no doubt arose from the similarity of its name to γέρανος, “a crane;” the cranes and the Pigmies, according to the poets, being in a state of continual warfare.
[2549] Supposed to be the present Varna.
[2550] Now called Daphne-Soui, according to D’Anville.
[2551] Said to have been built by Aristæus, son of Apollo.
[2552] Now Missivri.