History of the Peloponnesian War

Thucydides

Thucydides, Vol. 1-4. Smith, Charles Foster, translator. London and Cambridge, MA: Heinemann and Harvard University Press, 1919-1923.

It is a promontory projecting from the King's canal[*](Xerxes' canal; cf. Hdt. vii. 22 ff.) on the inner side of the isthmus, and its terminus at the Aegean Sea is the lofty Mt.

Athos. Of the cities it contains, one is Sane, an Andrian colony close to the canal, facing the sea which is toward Euboea; the others are Thyssus, Cleonae, Acrothoi, Olophyxus and Dium, which are inhabited by mixed barbarian tribes speaking two languages.