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 516 STRABO. FRAGM. 49 52 15,000 cavalry and 20,000 infantry. After Maronia are Orthagoria, a city, and the district of Serrium (the navigation along the coast is difficult) ; the small city Tempyra belonging to the Samothracians, and another Caracoma, (the Stockade,) in front of which lies the island Samothrace. Imbros is at no great distance from Samothrace; Thasos is double the dis- tance from it. After Caracoma is Doriscus, where Xerxes counted the number of his army. Then the Hebrus, with a navigation up the stream for 100 stadia to Cypsela. Strabo says that this was the boundary of Macedonia when wrested by the Romans, first from Perseus, and afterwards from Pseu- dophilip. Paulus, who overthrew Perseus, united the Epi- rotic nations to Macedonia, and divided the country into four parts ; one lie assigned to Amphipolis, a second to Thessalo- nica, a third to Pella, and a fourth to Pelagonia. Along the Hebrus dwell the Corpili, the Brense still higher up, above them, and lastly the Bessi, for the Hebrus is navigable up to this point. All these nations are addicted to plunder, par- ticularly the Bessi, whom, he says, border upon the Odrysa? and Sapa3i. Bizya is the capital of the Astae (?). Some give the name of Odrysse to all those people who live on the moun- tains overhanging the coast, from the Hebrus and Cypsela to Odessus. They were under the kingly government of Ama- docus, Khersobleptes, Berisades, Seuthes, (Theseus?) and Cotys. E. 49. The river in Thrace now called Rhiginia (Rhegina ?) was formerly called Erigon (Erginus ?). EPIT. 50. Samothrace was inhabited by the brothers Jasion and Dardanus. Jasion was killed by lightning, for his crime against Ceres ; Dardanus moved away from Samothrace, and built a city, to which he gave the name of Dardania, at the foot of Mount Ida. He taught the Trojans the Samothracian mys- teries. Samothrace was formerly called Samos. EPIT. 51. The gods worshipped in Samothrace, the Curbantes and Corybantes, the Curetes and the Idnsan Dactyli, are said by many persons to be the same as the Cabiri, although they are unable to explain who the Cabiri were. E. 52. At the mouth of the Hebrus, which discharges itself by two channels, in the Gulf of Melas, is a city ^Enos, founded by the Mitylenseans and Cumaeans ; its first founders, how- ever, were Alopeconnesi ; then the promontory Sarpedon ;