Location information

Serrhium (Cape Makri)

After Maroneis one comes to the city Orthagoria and to the region about Serrhium (a rough coastingvoyage) (Strabo fr.47). All the ships had now arrived at Doriscus, and the captains at Xerxes' command brought them to the beach near Doriscus, where stands the Samothracian city of Sane, and Zone; at the end is Serreum, a well-known headland. This country was in former days possessed by the Cicones. (Herodt. 7.59.1)

Perseus: Herodotus, The Histories (ed. A. D. Godley, 1920)
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Perseus: Strabo, Geography
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