Polybius, Histories

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The Via Egnatia

The road from Apollonia to Macedonia is called the

The Via Egnatia.

Via Egnatia, which has been measured in miles and marked out with milestones as far as Cypselus and the River Hebrus, a distance of five hundred and thirty-five miles. Reckoning eight and one-third stades to a mile, the number of stades will be four thousand four hundred and fifty-eight.¹ The distance is exactly the same whether you start from Apollonia or Epidamnus. The whole road is called the Egnatia, but its first part has got a name from Candavia, a mountain of Illyria, and leads through the town of Lycnidus, and through Pylon, which is the point on the road where Illyria and Macedonia join.

Thessalonica half-way to the Hebrus form Apollonia.

Thence it leads over Mount Barnūs, through Heracleia, Lyncestia, and Eordea, to Edessa and Pella, and finally to Thessalonica; and the number of miles is altogether two hundred and sixty-seven. . . . And the whole distance from the Ionian Gulf at Apollonia to Byzantium is seven thousand five hundred stades. . . .

The circumference of the Peloponnesus, if

The Peloponnesus.

you do not follow the indentations, is four thousand stades. . . .

The distance from Cape Malea to the Ister

From C. Malea to the Danube.

is ten thousand stades.² . . .