Serrheum
Σέρριον
Serrheum or SERRHIUM (Σέρριον, Dem. p. 85, R.; Σέρρειον, Hdt. 7.59; Steph. B. sub voce a promontory and town on the southern coast of Thrace, now Cape Makri. It lay to the west of Maroneia, and opposite to the island of Samothrace. It is repeatedly mentioned by Demosthenes (pp. 85, 114, 133, R.), as having been taken by Philip, contrary to his engagements with the Athenians; and Livy (31.16) states that it was one of the Thracian towns captured by Philip V. in the year B.C. 200. (Plin. Nat. 4.11. s. 18; Mela, 2.2.) According to Stephanus Byz. (l.c.) a town on the island of Samothrace bore the same name.
From William Smith (ed.), Dictionary of Greek and Roman Geography. Text provided under a CC BY-SA license by Perseus Digital Library, http://www.perseus.tufts.edu, with funding from the National Endowment for the Humanities and Tufts University. Data accessed from https://github.com/PerseusDL/canonical-pdlrefwk/ on 17 October 2026.