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-i, S§Ue» il*^<J three sons, Eolus, his eldest, Doras, and 

 Xisthu8.; by whose migrations or conquests, or those of 

 t^K^r posterity, the Greek language was propagated into 

 P^|3iOiiaii»esus amtl Boeotia. 



To EoJiis, Hellen left that part of Thessaly, Avhich 1^ 



g«v€ifn<J(d:r)|o Dorus, he assigned a certain portion of his 



subjects, to form a new settlement: Xuthus, the youngest, 



fkassed into Attica, where he married Creusa, the daughter 



of Errpctheu«, king of Athens. Dorus led his people to 



the foot of Parnassus, and founded three cities, Conon 



411 ; Ph«t5i«6, ^38. Yet, Herodotus says, he reigned in that 



part of Th^paly, called Ha^stiotis; but he probably meant, 



that Dorus reigned over the the people of that district; 



whpn?, according to Conon, he led to the foot of Par- 



jjassiL^s. JNow Parnassus is a mountain of Piiocis. Thus 



Jjjis Recount may, in some measure, be reconciled with that 



^,. Conon; who expressly says, that Dorus led his colony 



out of the dominion of Hellen, and settled at the foot of 



Parnassye ; and Strabo, 587, agrees with him. But both 



are mistaken, as I have already shewn, in thinking, that 



from Dorus they received the name of Dorians. 



.. Hfm the Gfpek language penetrated into Peloponnesus, 



and,i gradually supplanted the Pelasgic, I sliall now shew. 



. Xwthiis, the youngest son of Hellen, had two sons, 



iVcheus .a,ud Jon. Acheus having committed an irivolun- 



itary hoi^iiQide, was obliged to fly from Attica, and took 



refi^ge in Xaconia in. Peloponnesus, Strabo, 588, about 



the year 1407- ' He there built four cities, Conon in Pho- 



tius, 



