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MAXIMIANOUPOLI (Ancient city) RODOPI
Stabulum Diomedis (Itin. Ant. p. 331; It. Hier. p. 603), a place on
the coast of Thrace, on the Via Egnatia, 18,000 paces, according to Itin. Ant.,
12,000, according to It. Hier., from Porsula, or Maximianopolis; probably the
same as Pliny (iv. 11. s. 18) calls Tirida: Oppidum fuit Tirida, Dio medis equorum
stabulis dirum. This Diomedes was king of the Bistones in Thrace, and was in the
habit of throwing strangers to be devoured by his savage horses, till at length
he himself was punished in the same way by Hercules. (Mela, ii. 2. § 8.) Lapie
places it near the modern Iassikeni.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
MARONIA (Ancient city) RODOPI
Serrheum or Serrhium (Serrhion, Dem. p. 85, R.; Serrheion, Herod.
vii. 59; Steph. B. s. v.), a promontory and town on the southern coast of Thrace,
now Cape Makri. It lay to the west of Maroneia, and opposite to the island of
Samothrace. It is repeatedly mentioned by Demosthenes (pp. 85, 114, 133, R.),
as having been taken by Philip, contrary to his engagements with the Athenians;
and Livy (xxxi. 16) states that it was one of the Thracian towns captured by Philip
V. in the year B.C. 200. (Plin. iv. 11. s. 18; Mela, ii. 2.) According to Stephanus
Byz. (l. c.) a town on the island of Samothrace bore the same name.
This text is from: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography (1854) (ed. William Smith, LLD). Cited September 2004 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks
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