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The pass of Petra

There are three roads from lower Macedonia into Thessaly. (1) East of Mount Olympus along the coast to the mouth of the Peneius, and up that river to Gonnus through the pass of Tempe; (2) through the depression between western Olympus and the Pierian hills, called the pass of Petra, leading to the sources of the river Europus or Titaresius, and down that river through Perrhaebia; (3) making a much longer circuit round the mountains up the valley of the Haliacmon, and then turning south-east through a deep cleft in the Cambunian Mountains (the pass of Volustana or Servia) to the upper valley of the Titaresius.

This extract is from: A Commentary on Herodotus (ed. W. W. How, J. Wells). Cited Oct 2002 from The Perseus Project URL below, which contains interesting hyperlinks.

Perseus: W. W. How, J. Wells, A Commentary on Herodotus
• http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/cgi-bin/ptext?doc=Per...