272 PLINY's IfATUEAL UISTOllY. [Book IV. 



try Mount Pindus is situate, the Cassiop8ei\ the Dryopes^, 

 the Sellse^, the Hellopes**, the Molossi, iu whose territory is 

 the temple of the Dodouaean Jupiter, so famous for its oracle ; 

 and Mount Tomarus^, so highly praised by Theopompus, 

 with its hundred springs gushing from its foot. 



(2.) Epirus, properly so called, advances towards Mag- 

 nesia and Macedonia, having at its back the Dassaretse, 

 previously® mentioned, a free nation, and after them the 

 Dardani, a savage race. On the left hand, before the Dardani 

 are extended the Triballi and the nations of Moesia, while in 

 front of them the Medi and the Denselatae join, and next to 

 them the Thracians, who stretch away as far as the !5^uxine : 

 in such a manner is a rampart raised around the lofty heights 

 of Ehodope, and then of Hsemus. 



On the coast of Epirus is the fortress of Chiraapra^, 

 situate upon the Acroceraunian range, and below it the 

 spring known as the E-oyal Waters^ ; then the towns of 



* Cassiope or Cassope stood near the sea, and near the present village 

 of Kamarina. Its extensive ruins are still to be seen. 



2 Their district, according to Pouqueville, was in the present Canton 

 of DrynopoHs. 



^ The SelU or SeUce Uved in the vicinity of the temple of Jupiter at 

 Dodona, in the modern canton of Souli, according to Pouqueville. 



■^ The country about Dodona is called Hellopia by Hesiod. By some 

 the HeUi or Hellopes are considered the same as the SelU. Pouqueville 

 tliinks that the HeUopes dwelt in the modern cantons of Janina, Pogo- 

 niani, Sarachovitzas, and Com-endas, and that the temple of Jupiter stood 

 at the spot now called Proskynisis, near Gardiki, the town of Dodona 

 being near Castritza. Leake is of the same opinion as to the site of the 

 town ; but, as lias been a svibject of rem.ark, it is the only place of celebrity 

 in Greece of wliich the situation is not exactly known. Leake however 

 thinks that the temple stood on the peninsula now occupied by the 

 citadel of Joanina. 



5 Pouqueville thinks that tliis is the hill to be seen at the modern vii- 

 lage of Gardiki. He is also of opiuion that the springs here mentioned 

 are those at the modem village of Besdounopoulo. His opinions however 

 on these points have not been imphcitly received. 



6 B. iii. c. 26. The Dardani, TribaUi, and Moesi are mentioned in 

 c. 29. The locahties of the other tribes here mentioned are not known 

 with any exactness. 



' It retains the same name or that of Khimara, and gives its name to 

 the Acroceraunian range. It was situate at the foot of the chain, whicii 

 begins at this spot. 



^ " Aquae regise." Pouqueville suggests, without good reason, as An- 

 eart tliinks, that tliis spring was situate near the modern Drimodez or 

 Dermadez. 



