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by the poems of Orpheus and Lmus, composed in Greek. 

 Pieria and Olympus were anciently parts of Thrace,* 

 though they Avere afterwards accounted to belong to Ma- 

 cedonia :•-[- from the prevailing mixture of barbarians, the 

 Thracians were deemed to be also barbarians.^ 



That Epire Was also inhabited by Greeks, though in- 

 termixed with many barbarian tribes, appears by Strabo,|| 

 who tells us, the Molossi, an Epirotic tribe, were gor 

 verned by kings of the race of iEacus; as wa^; after- 

 wards all Epire ^y Pyrrhus. Besides, we find the Mo- 

 lossi sent a colony to Ionia: now the lonians would cer- 

 tainly not have received them, if they Aveve not of Greek 

 origin. It is true, they also received the Pelasgic Arca- 

 dians ; for this reason only, that the Pelasgi Avere . iricov- 

 porated with the Arcadians, and could not be distiir- 

 guished, see Ilerodot. Lib. I. cap. cxlvi;§ as they Avere, 

 also, Avith the Athenians. Plin. Lib. IV. cap. i. reckons 

 Macedonia, Epire, and Thrace,, ;a5,,p>jirt|,, of GrcieGe; ;and 

 so dQP? Homer, Iliad II. v. 635." '-;■>.) ^i,- ■■ :.': 



Ttie descendants of Elisah,] the elde&t son of Javaii, 

 passed into Greece,, properly so called, extending froiji 

 Macedonia, on tlie north, to the southern extremity ot 

 Peloponnesus; and from the Eastern to the Western sea, 

 *nd the .adjacent. islands, ..JX'hus,,. Am ;sejfei.thQ ter^'«tof^^ ,qf 



* Strabo, Lib. VII. p. 471. 

 ■ f'tb'id. 



X Ibid. Lib. VII. p. 321. ' ' ''• * 



■ II Ibid. Lib. VII. p. 324. .-:..;. . ' I ; 



§ See 1 I'Arciier, Hevod. \ii,-'knd'the notes dnd 7'l^ArclieiP, 'sil. 231. 



