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 B. xii. c. in. 3-5. PONTUS. 287 annexed to Pontus, and the country beyond assigned to the Bithynians. 3. It is generally acknowledged by writers, that the Bithy- nians, who were formerly Mysians, received this name from Bithynians and Thyni, Thracian people, who came and settled among them. They advance as a proof of their statement, first as regards the Bithynians, that there still exists in Thrace a people called Bithynians, and then, as regards the Thyni, that the sea-shore, near Apollonia 1 and Salmydessns, 2 is called Thynias. The Bebryces, who preceded them as settlers in Mysia, were, as I conjecture, Thracians. We have said 3 that the Mysians themselves were a colony of those Thracians who are now called Maesi. Such is the account given of these people. 4. There is not, however, the same agreement among writers with regard to the Mariandyni, and the Caucones. For they say that Heracleia is situated among the Mariandyni, and was founded by Milesians. 4 But who they are, or whence they came, nothing is said. There is no difference in language, nor any other apparent national distinction between them and the Bithynians, whom they resemble in all respects. It is probable therefore the Mariandyni were a Thracian tribe. Theopompus says that Mariandynus, who governed a part of Paphlagoriia, which was subject to many masters, invaded and obtained possession of the country of the Bebryces, and that he gave his own name to the territory which he had be- fore occupied. It is also said that the Milesians who first founded Heracleia, compelled the Mariandyni, the former pos- sessors of the place, to serve as Helots, and even sold them, but not beyond the boundaries of their country. For they were sold on the same conditions as the class of persons called Mnoans, who were slaves to the Cretans, and the Penesta?, 5 who were slaves of the Thessalians. 5. The Caucones, who, according to history, inhabited the line of sea-coast which extends from the Mariandyni as far as the river Parthenius, and to whom belonged the city Tieium, 6 1 Sizeboli, south of the Gulf of Burgas. 2 Midjeh. 3 B. vii. c. iii. 2. 4 Kramer is of opinion that Strabo is mistaken in this account of the origin of Heracleia. 5 Athenaeus, b. vi. c. 85, vol. i. p. 414, Bonn's Class. Library. 6 Tilijos.