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Each reacted on the other, but the two factors were at all times closely united in perfect harmony, a harmony so perfect, indeed, as to be impressive despite its naïveté. The Greek name for the letters of the alphabet symbolon, i.e., a "likeness" illustrates the same view of the pictorial origin of writing. For illustrations, see Lenomant, Magie und Wahrsagekunst der Chaldaer, pp. 520-523.
Otherwise Sherson and Schurschi; which was formerly called Cherson Trachea, and was built 600 years before the Christian era, by the inhabitants of Heraclea in Pontus. It was also called Chersonesus, or the Peninsula; but that term properly signified the whole of the peninsula between this harbour and Symbolon or Limen, which was entirely occupied by the Greeks.
They had been anticipated by Gaius Norbanus and Decidius Saxa, who had crossed over into Ionium before Staius reached there, had occupied the whole country as far as Pangaeum, and had encamped near Philippi. This city is located close beside Mount Pangaeum and close beside Symbolon. The former was near the sea, across from Thasos, while the latter has been built within the mountains on the plain.
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