. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. p\€v ^5.—Apoll. Rhot). ii. veluti qiiatiens Bellona aut Mavors cigitans— Lrc. vii. 568. Phrygife contraria tellus,Bistoniis habitata viris. Ov. Met. siii. 429. Nodo coerces riperino Bistonidum sine fraude crines. Hor. Carm. ii. 19, 19.* IkioOev /xe 4poiv at-e/xo? Kt/coi eercrt rre/Vacrcrei Icr/aapcp- evOa 8 eyio ttoAiv e-pa^or. coA^ecja d avrovg.—HoM. Od. is. 39.^ Philippolis is classed as a Eoman town, inasmuch as the Macedonians, by?whom, it was original
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. p\€v ^5.—Apoll. Rhot). ii. veluti qiiatiens Bellona aut Mavors cigitans— Lrc. vii. 568. Phrygife contraria tellus,Bistoniis habitata viris. Ov. Met. siii. 429. Nodo coerces riperino Bistonidum sine fraude crines. Hor. Carm. ii. 19, 19.* IkioOev /xe 4poiv at-e/xo? Kt/coi eercrt rre/Vacrcrei Icr/aapcp- evOa 8 eyio ttoAiv e-pa^or. coA^ecja d avrovg.—HoM. Od. is. 39.^ Philippolis is classed as a Eoman town, inasmuch as the Macedonians, by?whom, it was originally occupied, were unable to keep possession of it. Chap. XVllI. TOWNS. 329 were founded on the most central spots. The selection of the ancientByzantium as the capital of the Eastern Empire secured to Thrace alarge amount of prosperity in the later period of Roman history. Weshall describe these towns in the following order :—(1.) ihose on thesea-coast from W E.; and (2.) those of the Map of Constantinuple. (1.) Totvns on the Sea-Coast.—Abdera was situated some distanceE. of the Xestus. It was originally occupied by a colony from Clazo-mense in 656^ andafterwards by Teians in541. At the time ofthe expedition of Xerxesit was a highly flourish-ing place. It was takenby the Athenians in 40S,and appears to havefallen to decay 376, when it suf-fered from a war withthe Triballi. It was thebirth-place of the historian Hecataeus, and of the philosophers Prota-goras, Democritus, and Anaxarchus: its inhabitants were never-theless proverbial for their stupidity.^ Maronea, Marogna, was notfar from Lake Ismaris, in a district famed for its superior wine. Itwas taken by Philip V. of Macedon in 200 ; and, on his beino- com-pelled to relinquish his conquests, its inhabitants were cruelly massacredby him. Under the Romans it became a free city, ^nus,^ Enos, on apromontory of Lake Stentoris, was a very ancient town, though * Hence the uncomplimenta
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