 Afterwards, it had fallen into the hands of the Edoni; but on the murder of Pittacus, chief of that people, it surrendered to Brasidas after he captured Amphipolis, Oesyme and Galepsus in 422 BCE.During the Byzantine empire it was known as Doxompos () or Doxompus ().Its site is near the modern village renamed Myrkinos in honour of the ancient town.