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[2] For the coastline of his kingdom began at the territory of the Abderites and stretched as far as the Ister1 River, and for a man going from the sea to the interior the distance was so great that a man on foot travelling light required thirteen days for the journey. Ruling as he did over a territory so extensive he enjoyed annual revenues of more than a thousand talents;

1 Abdera was on the Nestus River facing the Aegean Sea; the Ister is the Danube.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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