. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. 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 c
. The student's manual of ancient geography, based upon the Dictionary of Greek and Roman geography. 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 uncomplimentary allusions in the following- lines : VeiTecum in patria crassoque sub aere nasci.—Jrv. x. patiens fortisque tibi durusque videtur, Abderiiance pectora plebis habes. Mart. x. 25. Cessit et ^Etntete Xeptunius incola rupis, ^^iQXs> Maroneo fcEdatus lumina Baccho.—Tibull. iv. 1, 330 THRACIA. Book IV.
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