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[7] While these things were going on, the Thasians settled the place called Crenides,1 which the king afterward named Philippi for himself and made a populous settlement.

1 North-east of Mt. Pangaeus in Thrace. "Philippi is a city that was formerly called Datus, and before that Crenides, because there are many springs bubbling around a hill there. Philip fortified it because he considered it an excellent stronghold against the Thracians, and named it from himself, Philippi." Appian Civil Wars 4.105, translated by White (L.C.L.). Datus was the older name found in Hdt. 9.75. Κρηνίδες is found in IG, 2（2）. 127 of the year 356/5. This seems to be the first instance of the practice, later so common, of naming cities for a king.

Diodorus Siculus. Diodorus of Sicily in Twelve Volumes with an English Translation by C. H. Oldfather. Vol. 4-8. Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989.

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