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the coast of the Locrians, are Larymna\ and Thronium-, 

 near which last the river Boagrius enters the sea. Also, the 

 towns of Narycion, Alope^, and Scarphia"* ; and then the 

 gulf which receives the name of the Maliac^ from the people 

 who dwell there, and upon which are the towns of Haley one, 

 Econia, and Phalara^ 



CHAP. 13. DOEIS. 



Doris comes next, in which are Sperchios^, Erineon^, 

 Boion^, Pindus, and Cytinum^". Behind Doris lies Mount 

 (Eta. 



CHAP. 14. — PHTHIOTIS. 



Hsemonia follows, a country which has often changed its 

 name, ha\-ing been successively called Pelasgic Argos, Hel- 

 las, Thessaly, and Dryopis, always taking its surname from 

 its kings. In this country was born the king whose name 

 was Grrgecus ; and from whom GrrcTcia was so called ; and here 

 too was born Hellen^\ from whom the Hellenes derive their 

 name. The same people Homer has called by three different 

 names, MjTmidones, Hellenes, and Achaei. 



That portion of these people which inhabit the country 

 adjacent to Doris are called Phthiotae. Their to^vns are 

 Echinus^', at the mouth of the river Sperchius, and, at four 



1 The Lower Larymna. Its ruiBs are seen between the modern Mat- 

 zumadi and Martini. 



* Its ruins are to be seen near the modern Andera. 



3 Between Daphnus and Cynus. Gell fomid its ruins on a hill near 

 the sea-shore. 



^ Its ruins are to be seen three miles from those of Thronium. 



» Now called the Gulf of Zeitoun. The people from whom it received 

 its name were the Mahcnses. 



6 Its ruins are two leagues from the modem town of Zeitoun. 



7 Or Sperchia, 



8 Strabo says tliat it lay below the town of Pindus. It is perhaps the 

 present Palseo Choria. 



9 Its ruins are placed by Leake near the modern Mnriolates. 



^'^ Like Pindus, one of the four towns or TetrapoHs of Doris. Its site 

 corresponds to the modem Gravia. 



1^ He seems to think that the name Graccus is older than that of 

 Hellen, in which he is supported by Apollodorus. 



^- So called from Ecliion, fabled to lia\ c sprung from the dragon's 



