. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. tades,or about nine miles, from Neapolis (App. B. D [ 51] Sr. PAUL IN MACEDONIA. [Chap. XF. Neapolis, notwithstanding these drawbacks, was the invariable landing-place fortravellers who were bound for the great military road through Macedonia, called theVia Egnatia, which here had its commencement, and led through Philippi,-^ acrossMacedonia to Epidamnus and Apollonia. We must here, on entering Macedonia, introduce a hasty sketch of the country asit presented itself to the Christian missionaries. The successors of Alexander the Great upon the throne
. The life and Epistles of St. Paul. tades,or about nine miles, from Neapolis (App. B. D [ 51] Sr. PAUL IN MACEDONIA. [Chap. XF. Neapolis, notwithstanding these drawbacks, was the invariable landing-place fortravellers who were bound for the great military road through Macedonia, called theVia Egnatia, which here had its commencement, and led through Philippi,-^ acrossMacedonia to Epidamnus and Apollonia. We must here, on entering Macedonia, introduce a hasty sketch of the country asit presented itself to the Christian missionaries. The successors of Alexander the Great upon the throne of Macedon maintainedthe independence of the kingdom until the year 167, when Perseus, the last ofthe line, was utterly defeated at Pydna by Paulus iEmilius, and Macedonia became aEoman province. The conquerors, for the better prevention of a general rebellion,divided Macedonia into four districts, called respectively Macedonia the First,Second, Third, and Fourth. The first division extended from the Eiver Nestus, the C-^Cv*-,. Fig. 96.— Coin of Macedonia Pnma. From the British Head of Diana.—i?eu. MaKefiofwr IIpuTijs (of the Macedonians, Firtt division). eastern boundary of Macedonia, to the Eiver Strymon on the west, and the capital wasat first Amphipolis, but afterwards, and at the time of which we are speaking, Philippi(fig. 96). The second region lay between the Strymon to the east and the Eiver iv. 106), which again approximates to the actualdistance from Cavallo; but is wholly at variancewith the distance from Eski Cavallo. 4. The next station to NeapoHs, eastward, onthe Via Egnatia, was Acontisma, which accord-ing both to the Antonine and Jerusalem Itinerary,was at the distance of nine miles. The theoryof those, who advocate Eski Cavallo as Neapolis,places Acontisma at Cavallo ; but the distancebetween these two is not nine miles biit fifteenmiles; and, again, Acontisma must have beenmuch more eastward than Cavallo, for it wasbeyond the limits of M
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