134 On the Ancient HELLENES. 
* deed all the Theffalians, but only thofe who dwelt in the 
“ city of Hellas *.’’? Thus it appears, that the Theflalian Hel- 
las was a very ancient city of the fmall diftri@ of Theflaly 
called Phthiotis, and that lay in the neighbourhood of the river 
Enipeus. 
Bur the Hellas juft now defcribed was by no means the ori- 
ginal one called by that name. We learn from ArisTorre the 
following circumftances +: “* For this deluge, fays he, happened 
“ chiefly about the diftrict of the ancient Hellenes, and that 
near the city Hellas. Now, that city lay near Dodona, on 
the Achelous; for this river hath often changed its name. 
The Selli inhabited that canton. Thefe were at that time 
called Greci, and now are denominated Hedlenes.’’ Here then 
we have difcovered the original Hel/as, the refidence of the 
Selli or Helli, who were firft called Helladians, then Tenor, and 
laft of all Hellenes. Thefe Helli or Selli were the original Hel- 
lenes. From them the Gentile name, that afterwards became fo 
famous over a great part of the world, was derived, and not 
from HELLEN, the fictitious fon of DEucaAtton. 
Ler us now fee who thefe Helli or Selli were who dwelt 
about the Theflalian Hellas, and from whom, we hope to make 
it appear, that the later He//enes were denominated. STraso, 
in his defcription of Epire, gives the following account of that 
remarkable people {. ‘‘ Now, concerning Dodona, that the 
“* people who dwelt about the temple were Barbarians, even 
‘“* Homer himfelf has inferred from the peculiar aufterities of 
“ their manner of living §: They fleep, fays he, on the bare 
“ ground 
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* Ad Iliad. ix. 437. 
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§ Iliad. xvi. 233. Sorn. Trach. 1180. 
