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[2] And Xenophon with this army set out to make war on the Thracians who dwell around Salmydessus.1 The territory of this city, which lies on the left side of the Pontus, stretches for a great distance and is the cause of many shipwrecks.2

1 A city on the west shore of the Black Sea some sixty miles from the Bosphorus.

2 Xen. Anab. 7.5.12 states that "shoals extend far and wide".

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