Statistics for occurrence #1 of “Byzantium” in book 4, chapter 31, section 5 of Pausanias, Description of Greece:
...owers and battlements upon it. I have not seen the walls at Babylon or the walls of Memnon at Susa in Persia, nor have I heard the account of any eye-witness; but the walls at Ambrossos in Phocis, at Byzantium and at Rhodes, all of them the most strongly fortified places, are not so strong as the Messenian wall.
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