Book 7
frag.45
The Sinti, a Thracian tribe, inhabit the island Lemnos; and from this fact Homer calls them Sinties, when he says, “where me the Sinties . . .”Hom. Il. 1.594cp. Thuc. 2.98
frag.45a
Lemnos: first settled by the Thracians who were called Sinties, according to Strabo.
frag.46
After the Nestus River, towards the east, is the city Abdera, named after Abderus, whom the horses of Diomedes devoured; then, near by, the city Picaea, above which lies a great lake, Bistonis; then the city Maroneia.
