Sithŏnia

, a country of Thrace between mount Hæmus and the Danube. Sithonia is often applied to all Thrace, and thence the epithet Sith on is , so often used by the poets. It received its name from king Sithon. Horace , bk. 1 , ode 18, li. 9 .— Ovid , Metamorphoses , bk. 6 , li. 588 ; bk. 7 , li. 466 ; bk. 13 , li. 571 .— Hero dot us , bk. 7 , ch. 122 .