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μεγάλοι: the Danube's tributaries from the Balkans really are small.

Θρηίκων τῶν Κροβύζων. The changes in the position of the Crobyzi are an illustration of the trend of the tribes to the northeast which Niebuhr sketches (K. S. p. 376 seq.). In Strabo (318) we find this people has moved east to the coast, where H. (c. 93) places the Getae; these again had moved north-east in the fourth century B. C.

The Scius is no doubt the Ὄσκιος of Thuc. ii. 96. 4 (mod. Iskar), who rightly says ῥεῖ ἐκ τοῦ ὄρους ὅθεν περ καὶ Νέστος καὶ Ἕβρος; of course it does not (as H. asserts) ‘cut through’ the Balkans. H. extends Mount Haemus further west than was done later.

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