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 STRABO. FKAGM. 1113. Rhodope, 1 and Haemus. 2 For these mountains extend in a straight line, beginning from the Adriatic, to the Euxine, forming towards the south a great peninsula, which compre- hends Thrace, Macedonia, Epirus, and Achaia. On the south, Macedonia is bounded by the Egnatian Way, which goes from Dyrrachium eastwards to Thessalonica, and thus has very nearly the form of a parallelogram. EPIT. 1 1. The country now called Macedonia was formerly called Emathia. It acquired this name from Macedon, one of its ancient princes. There was also a city Emathia near the sea. The country was occupied by some of the Epirotce and Illy- rians, but the greatest part by Bottiaei and Thracians. The Bottiaei were of Cretan origin, and came under the command of Botton ; the Pieres, who were Thracians, inhabited Pieria and the parts about Olympus ; the Paeonians, the borders of the river Axius, from whence the region was called Amphax- itis ; the Edoni and Bisalti, the rest of the country as far as the Strymon. The Bisalti retained their name, but the Edoni went under the various names of Mygdones, Edoni, (Odones?) and Sithones. Of all these people, the Argeadse and the Chalcidenses of Eubosa became the chief. The Chalcidenses came from Eubcea into the territory of the Sithones, and there founded about thirty cities. They were subsequently driven out by the Sithones, but the greater part of them collected together into a single city, namely, Olynthus. 3 They had the name of Chalcidenses-in-Thrace. E. 12. The Peneus separates Lower Macedonia and the sea- board from Thessaly and Magnesia. The Haliacmon is the boundary of Upper Macedonia ; and the Haliacmon, the Eri- gon, the Axius, and other rivers, form the boundary between Macedonia and the Epirotae and the Paeonians. E. 13. If a line is drawn from the recess of the Therrnaic Gulf, on the sea-coast of Macedonia, and from Thessalonica, southwards, to Sunium, and another eastwards, towards the Thradian Chersonese, an angle will be made in the recess. Macedonia extends in both directions, and we must begin with the line first mentioned. The first part of it has beyond it Attica with Megaris to the Crisssean Bay. Next succeeds the sea-coast of Boeotia near Euboea. Above Eubcea on the 1 Despotodagh. 2 Velikidagh. 3 Above Agios-Mamas, in the Bay of Cassandra.