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Tragilus

  Tragilos: Eth. Tragileus. A town of Macedonia, and doubtless the same as the Bragilos or Dragilos found in Hierocles among the towns of the first or consular Macedonia. In the Table there is a place Triulo marked as 10 miles from Philippi. This is apparently a corruption of Traelio, since numerous coins have been found near Amphipolis with the inscription TRAILION Leake conjectures with much probability that the real name was Tragilus, and that in the local form of the name the r may have been omitted, so that the TPAILION of the coin may represent the Hellenic Tragilion.

This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited June 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks

Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD)
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