Histories

In these parts there are many lions and wild oxen, whose horns are those very long ones which are brought into Greece [22,39] (nation), EuropeHellas. The boundary of the lions' country is the river Nestus which flows through +Abdera [24.9667,40.9833] (Perseus) Abdera and the river Achelous which flows through +Akarnania (region (general)), Aitolia and Akarnania, Central Greece and Euboea, Greece, Europe Acarnania. Neither to the east of the Nestus anywhere in the nearer part of Europe (continent)Europe, nor to the west of the Achelous in the rest of the mainland, is any lion to be seen, but they are found in the country between those rivers.