Kitap 7
frag.3
The proverbial phrase, “the copper vessel in Dodona,”The phrase was used in reference to incessant talkers (Stephanus Byzantinus, s.v. Δωδώνη). originated thus: In the temple was a copper vessel with a statue of a man situated above it and holding a copper scourge, dedicated by the Corcyraeans; the scourge was three-fold and wrought in chain fashion, with bones strung from it; and these bones, striking the copper vessel continuously when they were swung by the winds, would produce tones so long that anyone who measured the time from the beginning of the tone to the end could count to four hundred. Whence, also, the origin of the proverbial term, “the scourge of the Corcyraeans.”
frag.4
Paeonia is on the east of these tribes and on the west of the Thracian mountains, but it is situated on the north of the Macedonians; and, by the road that runs through the city GortyniumGortynium (or Gortynia) was situated in Macedonia, to the south of the narrow pass now called “Demir Kapu,” or (in Bulgarian) “Prusak.” and Stobi,Now Sirkovo, to the north of the Demir Kapus Pass. it affords a passage to . . .The words to be supplied here are almost certainly “the narrow pass on the south.” (through which the AxiusThe Vardar. flows, and thus makes difficult the passage from Paeonia to Macedonia—just as the Peneius flows through Tempe and thus fortifies Macedonia on the side of Greece). And on the south Paeonia borders on the countries of the Autariatae, the Dardanii, and the Ardiaei; and it extends as far as the Strymon.
frag.5
The HaliacmonThe Vistritza. flows into the Thermaean Gulf.
