236 On the Ancient HELLENES. 
very people under whofe protection, and by whofe permiffion, 
they had formed their original eftablifhment at Dodona. This 
detail acquires farther confirmation, when it is confidered, that 
the city which they built in Phthiotis was called Hellas, after the 
name of their metropolis, in the neighbourhood of Dodona. In- 
deed, it is highly probable, that there was a Dodona in Theflaly 
as well as in Epire. This was the opinion of PHILOXENUS, a 
very ancient writer, quoted by StepHanus Byzantinus *, 
though the author laft quoted condemns that opinion. As 
PHiLoxENUs was much more ancient than the Byzantine, the 
probability is, that truth lies on his fide. We therefore con- 
clude, that the Theffalian Hellas was built by a colony of emi- 
grants from the city of that name near Dodona in Thefprotia, 
a diftrict of Epire. 
Tue inhabitants of Hellas and its neighbourhood were call- 
ed Hellenes. Accordingly, STRABO actually fo denominates 
the inhabitants of that city. Ex de rag ‘Earados ev ramen yogin 
HELLEING, ES THY EAUTUY METOINNT OS TES “Enranvas ft. I know that the 
Greeks afcribe the building of this city to HELLEN, the fon of 
Deucavion; but had this been the cafe, the city, according to 
the idiom of the Greek language, muft have been denominated 
Hellenia, and not Hellas. 
Tuese Hellenes, in procefs of time, extended themfelves 
over all the fouth part of Theffaly. Heroporus is clearly of 
opinion, that the Hellenes were a Pelafgic tribe. Speaking of 
the Pelafgi and thefe people, he exprefles himfelf in the follow- 
ing manner :—To de “EAaAguzov [eSvos] yAwoon mev, exes re evyeveros 
QElxOTEe ce] avTy diayeures, ws £05 HATAHDAIVET OE VHS, arooysosey Hev~ 
ror amo Te LleAaoyine, cov aodeves, oro ouimes TEO THY HeYnY Og LafLEVOVs 
avinras 65 rAgnvos, Tay edvewy ToAAwy morisee TEOTHEY WENKOTAY HUTW HOLL 
wrrw edvear, Bugbagar cvyvev we On, ws ewor re doxeit. As this paf- 
fage is of more than ordinary importance, I {hall fubjoin a li- 
I teral 
* In voc. Dodona, + P. 432. t Lib.1. cap. 58. 
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