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Σέρρειον. The cape (now Cape Makri) and mountain had the same name (Plin. H. N. iv, § 43; App. B. C. iv. 101 f.), infamous through the murder of Orpheus by the Ciconian women. The Ciconians dwelt here in the days of the Trojan war (Il. ii. 846; Od. ix. 39 f.); pushed a little to the west in the time of Xerxes (ch. 108, 110), they subsequently disappear.

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