Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854), BERGA

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BERGA (Βέργη: Eth. Βέργαῖος), a town of Macedonia, lying inland from the mouth of the Strymon (Scymnus Ch. 654; Ptol. 3.13.31) only known as the birthplace of the writer Antiphanes, whose tales were so marvellous and incredible as to give rise to a verb Βεργαίζειν, in the sense of telling falsehoods. (Strab. i. p.47, ii. pp. 102, 104; Steph. B. sub voce s. v.; Dict. of Biogr. vol. i. p. 204.) Leake places Berga near the modern Takhynó, upon the shore of the Strymonic lake. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 229.)

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography, illustrated by numerous engravings on wood. William Smith, LLD. London. Walton and Maberly, Upper Gower Street and Ivy Lane, Paternoster Row; John Murray, Albemarle Street. 1854.

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William Smith, LLD, Ed.