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Brutus and Cassius, thinking that the enemy had taken that position not so much to close the passage to them as to transfer themselves from Macedonia to Thrace for want of provisions, marched toward Aenus and Maronea from Lysimacheia and Cardia,The text says that they marched toward Aenus and Maronea and thence toward Lysimacheia and Cardia, which would be the reverse of the route they actually took to Philippi. Schweighäuser judged that this was a copyist’s blunder. which clasp the neck of the Thracian Chersonesus like gates. The next day brought them to the gulf of Melas.Here we have more geographical confusion. The gulf of Melas, i.e., the Black Gulf, was a day’s journey east instead of west of Aenus. Cardia was situated on it. Probably the safest conclusion is that Appian did not know the exact situation of any of these places except Lysimacheia and Cardia. These he has placed correctly at the neck of the Thracian Chersonesus. Here they reviewed their army, Coast of Thrace, showing the Field of Philippi
