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τὰς ἠπειρώτιδας: not inland cities, as they are παραθαλασσίας (§ 2), but cities on the mainland in opposition to the islands, Thasos and Samothrace (cf. i. 151, of the cities of Aeolis).

Πίστυρος. The name is connected with Βίστονες; cf. 108. 3 n. for the change of β to π. The form Κυστίριοι appears on a quota list, C. I. A. i. 243. The place may be marked by a salt-lake ten miles from the Nestus.

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