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STRABO.
FRAGM. 33, 34.

these form the boundaries of the Toronæan Gulf. Again, towards the east lies the promontory of Athos, [Nymphæum,] which bounds the Singitic Gulf. Then follow one another the gulfs of the Ægean Sea, towards the north, in this order: the Maliac,[p 1] the Pagasitic,[p 2] the Thermæan,[p 3] the Toronæan,[p 4] the Singitic,[p 5] and the Strymonic.[p 6] The promontories are these: Posidium,[p 7] situated between the Maliac and Pegasitic Gulfs; next in order, towards the north, Sepias;[p 8] then Canastrum[p 9] in Pallene; then Derris;[p 10] next Nymphæum[p 11] in Athos, on the Singitic Gulf; Acrathos,[p 12] the promontory on the Strymonic Gulf; between them is Athos, to the east of which is Lemnos. Neapolis[p 13] bounds the Strymonic Gulf towards the north. EPIT.

33. The city Acanthus, on the Singitic Gulf, is a maritime city near the Canal of Xerxes. There are five cities in Athos; Dium, Cleonæ, Thyssos, Olophyxis, Acrothoi, which is situated near the summit of Athos. Mount Athos is pap-shaped, very pointed, and of very great height. Those who live upon the summit see the sun rise three hours before it is visible on the sea-shore. The voyage round the peninsula, from the city Acanthus to the city Stagirus, the birth-place of Aristotle, is 400 stadia. It has a harbour called Caprus, and a small island of the same name. Then follow the mouths of the Strymon; then Phagres, Galepsus, and Apollonia, all of them cities; then the mouth of the Nestus, which is the boundary of Macedonia and Thrace, as settled, in their own times, by Philip and Alexander his son. There are about the Strymonic Gulf other cities also, as Myrcinus, Argilus, Drabescus, and Datum, which has an excellent and most productive soil, dock-yards for ship-building, and gold mines; whence the proverb, “A Datum of good things,” like to the proverb, “Piles of plenty.”[1] EPIT.

34. There are numerous gold mines among the Crenides, where the city of Philip now stands, near Mount Pangæus. Pangæus itself, and the country on the east of the Strymon, and on the west as far as Pæonia, contains gold and silver

  1. ↑ Gulf of Zeitun.
  2. ↑ G. of Volo.
  3. ↑ G. of Salonica.
  4. ↑ G. of Cassandra.
  5. ↑ G. of Monte Santo.
  6. ↑ G. of Orfano.
  7. ↑ Cape Stauros.
  8. ↑ C. Demitri.
  9. ↑ C. Pailuri.
  10. ↑ C. Drepano.
  11. ↑ C. St. George.
  12. ↑ C. Monte Santo.
  13. ↑ Kavala.
  1. ↑ Δάτον ἀγαθῶν. Ἀγαθῶν ἀγαθίδες.
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