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[2] On his road from Doriscus he first passed the Samothracian fortresses;1 of these, the city built farthest to the west is called Mesambria. Next to it is the Thasian city of Stryme; between them runs the river Lisus, which now could not furnish water enough for Xerxes' army, but was exhausted.

1 Erected doubtless by the Samothracians to protect their possessions on the mainland.

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