DOBE´RUS
DOBE´RUS (
Δόβηρος,
Steph. B. sub voce Δήβορος,
Διάβορος,
Δούβηρος), a Paeonian town or district, which Sitalces reached after crossing Cercine, and where many troops and additional volunteers reached him, making up his full total. (
Thuc. 2.98,
100.) Hierocles names Diaboros next to Idomene among the towns of the Consular Macedonia under the Byzantine empire; this, coupled with the statement of Ptolemy (
3.13. 8.28) that it belonged to the Aestraei, would seem to show that Doberus was near the modern
Doghirán.
The DOBERES (
Δόβηρες, Doberi,
Plin. Nat. 4.10) are described by Herodotus (
7.113) as inhabiting, with the Paeoplae, the country to the N. of Mt. Pangaeum,--these being precisely the tribes whom he had before associated with the inhabitants of the Lake Prasias (5.16). Their position must, therefore, be sought to the E. of the Strymon: they shared Mt. Pangaeum with the Paeonians and Pierians, and dwelt probably on the N. side, where, in the time of the Roman empire, there was a “mutatio,” or place for changing horses, on the Via Egnatia, called DOMEROS, between Amphipolis and Philippi, 13 M. P. from the former and 19 M. P. from the latter. (
Itin. Hierosol.; comp. Tafel,
de Via Egnat. p. 10.) (Leake,
Northern Greece, vol. iii. pp. 212, 444, 467.)
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