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Marching past the Paeonians, Doberes, and Paeoplae, who dwell beyond and northward of the Pangaean mountains, 1 he kept going westwards, until he came to the river Strymon and the city of +Eion [23.8833,40.7333] (Perseus) Eion; its governor was that Boges, then still alive, whom I mentioned just before this.
Marching past the Paeonians, Doberes, and Paeoplae, who dwell beyond and northward of the Pangaean mountains, 1 he kept going westwards, until he came to the river Strymon and the city of +Eion [23.8833,40.7333] (Perseus) Eion; its governor was that Boges, then still alive, whom I mentioned just before this.
[2] All this region about the
Pangaean range is called
Phyllis; it stretches westwards to the river
Angites, which issues into the
Strymon, and southwards to the
Strymon itself; at this river the
Magi sought good omens by sacrificing white horses.
Histories. Herodotus. ed. A.D. Godley. Cambridge. 1920-1925.
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