. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. Chap. X[.] ST. PAUL IN MACEDOXIA. [am. 51] hence the fanciful Greeks invented a legend to account for the name. The young lassProserpine, they said, was gathering flowers in the luxuriant meadows on the banksof the rivulet, when Pluto fell in love with her and carried her off in his chariot, butas he drove across the bed of the stream he broke the pole of the car, and thence thename of Zygactes, or Pole-break. To the west of this little plain the marshes betweenPhihppi and Pangaeus stretch away for several miles, and are then succeeded by therich pastures a
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. Chap. X[.] ST. PAUL IN MACEDOXIA. [am. 51] hence the fanciful Greeks invented a legend to account for the name. The young lassProserpine, they said, was gathering flowers in the luxuriant meadows on the banksof the rivulet, when Pluto fell in love with her and carried her off in his chariot, butas he drove across the bed of the stream he broke the pole of the car, and thence thename of Zygactes, or Pole-break. To the west of this little plain the marshes betweenPhihppi and Pangaeus stretch away for several miles, and are then succeeded by therich pastures and ploughed lands of the valley of Drama, as far as the Paul could scarcely have failed to pause for a moment on tlie heights of Panga^usto sweep with his eye the beautiful and interesting prosjiect before him, and he mustat the same time have breathed a prayer for the success of his mission in so gloriousa vineyard. The travellers now descended into the little plain watered by the Zygactes,and then, skirting the marsh on their left, pursued the road in a northerly direction,and next turning westward along the foot of the northern mountain range, traversedthe beaten road, still lined on either side by tombs, until they reached distance from Neapolis to Philijjpi was, according to A^jpian, about nine miles,-and according to the Jerusalem Itinerary ten miles, and according to the Autonine IS T/)ii;pC(Ti Siav ttuKiv, utto eiiSufifiKotna (rrahlav. App. B. C. iv. lOG. 206 [ 51] ST. PAUL IN MACEDONIA. [Chap. XI. Itinerary twelve miles, and according to Galen even fifteen miles f but recentadmeasurement has ascertained the exact
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