Zone
Ζώνη
Zone (Plin. Nat. 4.11. s. 18; Mela, 2.2.8; Ζώνη, Herodot. 7.59; Scyl. p. 27; Steph. B. sub voce p. 291; Schol. Nicand. Ther. 462; Schol. Apoll. Rhod. 1.29), a town on the S. coast of Thrace, on a promontory of the same name, a short distance to the W. of the entrance of the Lacus Stentoris. According to Apollonius and Mela (ll. cc.) it was to this place that the woods followed Orpheus, when set in motion by his wondrous music.
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.