76. These mines were in the country of the Bessi in the
ridge of mountains, the Rhodope, that runs between Philippi
and Philippopolis, two Macedonian cities, which derived
their name and origin from the father of Alexander. From the
mines of Thrace he annually received the value, not the
weight, of a thousand talents (�200,000) - a revenue which
paid the phalanx and corrupted the orators of Greece. See
Diodor. Siculus, tom. ii. 1. xvi. [c. 8] p. 88, edit.
Wesseling. Godefroy's Commentary on the Theodosian Code,
tom. iii. p. 496. Cellarius, Geograph. Antiq. tom. i. p.
676, 857. D'Anville, Geographie Ancienne, tom. i. p. 336.