Strymon

, a river which separates Thrace from Macedonia, and falls into a part of the Ægean sea, which has been called Strymonicus sinus . A number of cranes, as the poets say, resorted on its banks in the summer time. Its eels were excellent. Mela , bk. 2 , ch. 2 .— Apollo dor us , bk. 2 , ch. 5 .— Virgil , Georgics , bk. 1 , li. 120 ; bk. 4 , li. 508 ; Æneid , bk. 10 , li. 265 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 2 , li. 251 .