crenides

Updated: May 13, 2025

Philip now crossed the Strymon, on the left bank of which lay Pangaeus, a range of mountains abounding in gold-mines. He conquered the district, and founded there a new town called Philippi, on the site of the ancient Thracian town of Crenides. By improved methods of working the mines he made them yield an annual revenue of 1000 talents, nearly 250,000l.

Sir William Smith - A Smaller history of Greece : From the earliest times to the Roman conquest

Saxa and Norbanus happened to have occupied the shortest path across, therefore Brutus and Cassius did not even try to get through that way, but went around by a longer path, the so-called Crenides. Here, too, they encountered a guard, but overpowered it, got inside the mountains, approached the city along the high ground, and there encamped each one apart, if we are to follow the story.

Cassius Dio Cocceianus - Dio's Rome, Volume 3 : An Historical Narrative Originally Composed in Greek During : The Reigns of Septimius Severus, Geta and Caracalla, Macrinus, : Elagabalus and Alexander Severus