Birth-places of distinguished Men.-ATHENS, of Miltiades, Aristīdes, Themistocles, Pericles, Socrates, Plato, Xenophon, Æschylus, Sophocles, Aristophanes, Thucydides, Demosthenes, &c.; Salămis, of Solon and Euripides; Chæronea, of Plutarch; Megalopolis, of Polybius; Stagira, of Aristotle; Abdēra, (in Thrace,) of Democritus; Pella, of Philip of Macedon, and his son Alexander the Great; Paros, of Phidias and Praxiteles; Ceos, of Simonides. Books of Travels in Greece.-Pausanias, Bartelemi's Travels of Anacharsis, Spon and Wheler, Chandler, Dodwell, Holland, Hobhouse, Walpole, Sir W. Gell, Leake. VI. COUNTRIES BORDERING ON THE EUXINE, OR BLACK SEA. THE Pontus Euxinus, (an inland sea) which Ovid says was originally called Axěnus1 (inhospitalis) is connected with the Ægean or Archipelago and the Mediterranean, by the Hellespont or Straits of the Dardanelles, the Thracian Bosporus or Straits of Constantinople, and the Propontis or Sea of Marmara, which lies between them. Its greatest length is 640 miles; the average breadth, 240. The principal RIVERS that discharge their waters into the Black Sea, are, DANUBIUS or Ister, the Danube; Tyras, the Dniester; Borysthenes, the Dnieper, joined near its mouth by Hypănis, the Inguletz r., and Axiăces the Bog* r.; TANAIS, the Don, which flows into 1 Frigida me cohibent Euxini littora Ponti; Dictus ab antiquis Axenus ille fuit.—OV. TRIST. IV. 4, 55. me terrarum pars pæne novissima pontus, Euxini falso nomine dictus, habet.—IB. III. 13, 27. 2 Turbidus et torquens flaventes Ister arenas.-VIR. G. 111. 350. conjurato descendens Dacus ab Istro.-IB. II. 497. Ut sumus in Ponto, ter frigore constitit Ister, Facta est Euxini dura ter unda maris.-Ov. TR. v. 10, 1. Innumerique alii, quos inter maximus omnes Cedere Danubius se tibi, Nile, negat.-OV. PONT. Iv. 10, 57. * Vid. Peyssonel,-Observations sur les Peuples Barbares, &c. Chap. xvi. the Euxine through Palus Mootis, sea of Azov, and is one of the three rivers of longest course in Europe, the other two being the Dnieper and the Danube; Vardanus, the Cuban; Phasis,3 the Phaz or Rione; and Halys, the Kizil Ermak. The countries that border upon the Euxine Sea, are, I. THRACIA: II. MŒSIA: III. DACIA: IV. SARMATIA Europea: V. SARMATIA Asiatica: VI. COLCHIS: VII. ASIA (Minor). 4 I. THRACIA, THRACA,5 v. THRACE,—ROUMELIA. THRACE, lying between 40° and 43° N. Lat. and 24° and 280 E. Long., is bounded, on the North, by Mount Hæmus; South, by the Ægean Sea, Hellespont, and Propontis; East, by the Euxine; and West, by the river Nestus and Mount Scomius. 3 Contigerant rapidas limosi Phasidos undas.-Ov. MET. VII. 6. Croeso fatalis Halys.-LUCAN. III. 272. 4 'Mavors, nubifero seu tu procumbis in Hæmo, Et Thracas defende tuos.-CLAUD. IN RUF. 1. 334. And dropt his thirsty lance at thy command.-GRAY-PROGRESS OF POESY. 6 MOUNTAINS.-Part of Hœmus: Rhodope, Ismarus. Towns and Localities. On the HEBRUS,' which is the largest river of Thrace, Philippopŏlis, Felibi; Adrianopolis, Edrene, or Adrianople; Trajanopolis; Ænos. -Along the coast, between the Nestus and Lake Bistonis, Abdera, and the gold mines of Scaptesula v. Skapte Hyle; the long wall called Macrontichos, across the isthmus of Chersonesus: Sestos, on the narrowest part of the Hellespont: Egospotami; Callipolis, Gallipoli; Perinthus v. Heraclea: CONSTANTINOPOLIS, olim BrZANTIUM, NOW STAMBOUL (es Tav TоNIV); Insula Cyaneæ v. Symplegădes v. Syndromădes, at the entrance 6 9 8 now O qui me gelidis in vallibus Hæmi Sistat, et ingenti ramorum protegat umbrâ !-GEO. 11. 488. cum vere reverso Bistoniæ tepuere nives, summittitur ingens Hæmus, et angustos Rhodope descendit in amnes.—ST. THEB. XI. 7 What could the Muse herself that Orpheus bore, 8 The Muse herself, for her enchanting son, Whom universal nature did lament, When, by the rout that made the hideous roar, His gory visage down the stream was sent, Down the swift Hebrus to the Lesbian shore ?-MILT. LYC. in jugis Exsomnis stupet Euias Hebrum prospiciens, et nive candidam Thracen, ac pede barbaro Lustratam Rhodopen.-HOR. Od. III. 25, 8. per angustas vectæ male virginis undas Seston Abydenâ separat urbe fretum ; Quaque tenent ponti Byzantia littora fauces, Hic locus est gemini janua vasta maris.-OV. TRIST. I. 10, 27. 9 Είθ ὤφελ ̓ Αργους μη διαπτᾶσθαι σκαφος Κολχων ἐς διαν κυανεας Συμπληγάδας. ΕURIP. MED. I. concurrentia saxa Cyaneas.-Juv. XV. 20 of the Thracian Bosporus into the Black Sea; Salmydessus; eastern termination of Mount Hæmus, now Cape Emineh. II. MESIA, SERVIA and BULGARIA, Is a tract of country included between the chain of Mount Hamus on the South, and the Danube, from its junction with the Save to the Black Sea, on the North. The DANUBE,10 or DONAU, the largest river in Europe, in that part of its course where it bounded Mosia, was called Ister as well as Danubius. It rises in Mons Abnoba, and after a course of 1700 miles, flows into the sea opposite to Leuce, the Isle of Serpents, by five mouths according to Herodotus, six according to Tacitus, and seven according to Strabo and Ovid; two of which, with the Euxine, formed the Island Peuce. Four are still perceptible amidst the low and marshy ground through which the river makes its way to the sea. The tributary Ciabrus r., Tiliritza, flowing from Hamus through the country of the Triballi, divided Mœsia into Superior and Inferior. In the latter, on the sea-shore, were the Getæ,11 and the district of Pontus, with its chief town Tomi12 11 • Stat vetus urbs, ripæ vicina binominis Istri.-OV. PONT. 1. 8, 11. Ipse, papyrifero qui non angustior amne, Miscetur vasto multa per ora freto, Cæruleos ventis latices durantibus, Ister Congelat, et tectis in mare serpit aquis.-Ov. TR. III. 10, 27. 11 Juncta pharetratis Sarmatis ora Getis.-Ov. TR. IV. 10, 110. 12 Huc quoque Mileto missi venere coloni Inque Getis Graias constituere domos, Sed vetus huic nomen, positâque antiquius urbe, |