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53 AD (search for this): book 4, chapter 18
olisNow called Kavallo, on the Strymonic Gulf. The site of Datos appears to be unknown. and Datos. In the interior is the colony of PhilippiNow called Filiba, or Felibejik, on a height of Mount Pangæus, on the river Gangites, between the Nestus and the Strymon. It was founded by Philip, on the site of the ancient town of Crenides, in the vicinity of the gold mines. Here Augustus and Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius, B.C. 42; and here the Apostle Paul first preached the Gospel in Europe, A.D. 53. See Acts xvi. 12., distant from Dyrrhachium 325 miles; also ScotussaIts site seems unknown, but it is evidently a different place from that mentioned in the last Chapter., the city of Topiris, the mouth of the river MestusAlso called Mestus., Mount Pangæus, HeracleaSintica, previously mentioned., OlynthosNow Aco Mamas, at the head of the Toronaic Gulf. It was the most important Greek city on the coast of Macedon. It was taken and destroyed by Philip, B.C. 347, and its inhabitants sold as slav
347 BC (search for this): book 4, chapter 18
eached the Gospel in Europe, A.D. 53. See Acts xvi. 12., distant from Dyrrhachium 325 miles; also ScotussaIts site seems unknown, but it is evidently a different place from that mentioned in the last Chapter., the city of Topiris, the mouth of the river MestusAlso called Mestus., Mount Pangæus, HeracleaSintica, previously mentioned., OlynthosNow Aco Mamas, at the head of the Toronaic Gulf. It was the most important Greek city on the coast of Macedon. It was taken and destroyed by Philip, B.C. 347, and its inhabitants sold as slaves. Mecyberna, already mentioned, was used as its sea-port., AbderaOn the coast, and east of the river Nestus. Its people were proverbial for their stupidity, though it produced the philosophers Democritus, Protagoras, and Anaxarchus. No traces of its site are to be found., a free city, the people of the BistonesNow called the Lagos Buru. The name of the Bistones is sometimes used by the poets for that of the Thracians in general. and their Lake. Here was form
42 BC (search for this): book 4, chapter 18
, ŒsymaCall Æsyma by Homer; between the rivers Strymon and Nestus., NeapolisNow called Kavallo, on the Strymonic Gulf. The site of Datos appears to be unknown. and Datos. In the interior is the colony of PhilippiNow called Filiba, or Felibejik, on a height of Mount Pangæus, on the river Gangites, between the Nestus and the Strymon. It was founded by Philip, on the site of the ancient town of Crenides, in the vicinity of the gold mines. Here Augustus and Antony defeated Brutus and Cassius, B.C. 42; and here the Apostle Paul first preached the Gospel in Europe, A.D. 53. See Acts xvi. 12., distant from Dyrrhachium 325 miles; also ScotussaIts site seems unknown, but it is evidently a different place from that mentioned in the last Chapter., the city of Topiris, the mouth of the river MestusAlso called Mestus., Mount Pangæus, HeracleaSintica, previously mentioned., OlynthosNow Aco Mamas, at the head of the Toronaic Gulf. It was the most important Greek city on the coast of Macedon. It was t
480 BC (search for this): book 4, chapter 18
e alreadyB. ii. c. 92. The present Straits of Gallipoli. stated, Europe from Asia, by a channel seven stadia in width, has four cities facing each other, CallipolisNow Gallipoli, a place of considerable commercial importance. and SestosNow Ialova; famous in Grecian poetry, with Abydos, for the loves of Hero and Leander. in Europe, and LampsacusNow Lamsaki. and AbydosThe village of Aidos, or Avido, probably marks its site. To the north, Xerxes passed over to Sestos on his bridge of boats, B.C. 480. in Asia. On the Chersonesus, there is the promontory of MastusiaNow Capo Helles., lying opposite to SigeumNow Jeni-Hisari, the N.W. promontory of Troas. Here Homer places the Grecian camp during the Trojan war.; upon one side of it stands the CynossemaMeaning the "Bitch's tomb," the fable being that Hecuba, in her old age, was changed into that animal. It was near the town of Madytus. (for so the tomb of Hecuba is called), the naval stationMeaning that their fleet was anchored off here durin
405 BC (search for this): book 4, chapter 18
imachus destroyed Cardia, and, building Lysimachia, peopled it with the inhabitants., which stands at a distance of five miles from Macron Tichos. The Chersonesus formerly had, on the side of the Propontis, the towns of Tiristasis, Crithotes, and CissaMannert identifies it with the ancient Ægos and the modern Galata., on the banks of the river ÆgosMore generally called Ægospotamos, the "Goat River," upon which the town of Ægos stood. It was here that Lysander defeated the Athenian fleet, B.C. 405, which put an end to the Peloponnesian war.; it now has, at a distance of twenty-twoAntoninus, in his Itinerary, makes this distance twenty-six miles. miles from the colony of Apros, Resistos, which stands opposite to the colony of Parium. The Hellespont also, which separates, as we have alreadyB. ii. c. 92. The present Straits of Gallipoli. stated, Europe from Asia, by a channel seven stadia in width, has four cities facing each other, CallipolisNow Gallipoli, a place of considerable commerc