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BIZO´NE

BIZO´NE (Βιζώνη: Eth. Βιζώνιος), a town of Lower Moesia on the coast of the Euxine, between Callatis and Apollonia, which is said to have been destroyed by an earthquake. (Strab. i. p.54, vii. p. 319; Pomp. Mela, 2.2. 5; Plin. Nat. 4.18; Steph. Byz. S. V.; Arrian, Peripl. p. 24, who calls it Bizon, and the Geogr. Rav. 4.6, who calls it Bizoi.)

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    • Pliny the Elder, Naturalis Historia, 4.18
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