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rable district of that name; so called from Hellen, who 

 built a city, to -which it was annexed; but which was, 

 soon after, deserted by Hellen himself, the inhabitants re- 

 moving to Melitoea, Strabo, 660. Hence, no otlier reason, 

 for comprehending all the Gi-eeks, under the name of 

 Hellenes, can be given but that which I have assigned. 



Thucydides, Lib. I. §. 3, says, the Greeks were compre- 

 hended under no common denomination, even so late as 

 the days of Homer. Yet, it is certain, that all the inlta^ 

 bitants of Greece, Avithout the isthmus, were called Hel- 

 lenes, before the Trojan war, or shortly aftei": for Homer, 

 speaking of Ulysses, says, a^hose faime wm spreiul ail over 

 Hellas and Argos, Odyss. Lib. I. v. 344. Here Peloponne- 

 sus, which was anciently called Argos, is distinguished from 

 all the rest of Greece; and not merely from the inconsi- 

 derable ten-itory of Hellas. It also appears, by the 2<i Iliad, 

 V. 683, (831, English,) that the town of Hellas was Ko- 

 peopled before the Trojan war: for Homer distinguishes 

 the inhabitants of Hellas from those of Phthia, 



And Hellas, blest 

 With female beauty far above the rest. 



Strabo, also, p. 568, shews, that Hesiod, at least as an- 

 cient as Homer, comprehended all the Greeks, under the 

 name Hellenes. 



The Enians, Magnetes, Dolopes, and Malienses, were 

 Thessalian tribes. See 8 I'Archer, under those names. The 

 two first were afterwards called Eoliane, Pausan. 508. 



Hellen 



