CHAPTER XVII.—Ver.1. διοδεύσαντες. Se: ‘‘and they went along the Roman road"? (Ramsay): verb only found in Luke, Luke viii. 1, and here, but frequent in LXX, and used also by Polyb. and Plut., cf. Gen. xiii. 17, etc., so in 1 Macc. three times. ‘The famous road, the Via Egnatia, Horace, Sat., Ἱ., 5, 97, extended for a distance of over five hundred miles from the Hellespont to Dyrrhachium ; it was really the continuation through Macedonia of the Via Appia, and it might be truly said that when St. Paul was on the Roman road at Troas or Philippi, he was on a road which led to the gates of Rome; see some interesting details in C. and H., p. 244. The article ‘‘ certam atque notam viam designat,” Blass, ix loco, and Gram., p. 149, but see also Weiss, in loco.— Apd., thirty-two or thirty-three miles from Philippi. The Via Egnatia passed through it (cf C. and H., and Hackett, in loco). The import of its name may be contained in the term applied to it, Thuc., iv., 102, περιφανής, conspicuous towards sea and land, ‘‘ the all around fvisible] city’’; or the name may simply refer to the fact that the Strymon flowed almost round the town, Thuc., µ. 5. Its earlier name, ‘ Nine Ways,” Εννέα ὅδοί, Thuc., i., 100 ; Herod vii., 114, indicated its important position, and no doubt this occasioned its colonisa- tion by the Athenians in B.c. 437. In the Peloponnesian War it was famous as the scene of the battle in which both Brasidas.
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