Emăthia

, a name given anciently, and particularly by the poets, to the countries which formed the empires of Macedonia and The aly. Virgil , Georgics , bk. 1 , li. 492 ; bk. 4 , li. 390 .— Lucan , bk. 1 , li. 1 ; bk. 10 , li. 50 ; bk. 6 , li. 620 ; bk. 7 , li. 427 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 5 , li. 314 .