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KERKINI (Lake) SERRES
Cercinitis (Kerkinitis limne, Anab. i. 11. § 3: Takhyno), the large
lake lying at the N. foot of the hill of Amphipolis, which Thucydides (v. 7) accurately
describes by the words to limnodes tou Strumonos, as it is, in fact, nothing more
than an enlargement of the river Strymon, varying in size according to the season
of the year, but never reduced to that of the river only, according to its dimensions
above and below the lake. Besides the Strymon, the Augitas contributes to the
inundation as well as some other smaller streams from the mountains on either
side. The lake Prasias (Prasias), with its amphibious inhabitants who are described
by Herodotus (v. 16) as living on the piles and planks procured from Mount Orbelus,
with which they constructed their dwellings on the lake, was the same as the Strymonic
lake, or Cercinitis. (Leake, Northern Greece, vol. iii. p. 211.)
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