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tius, 438. It is then plain, that he was accompanied or 

 followed bj a number of Athenians. The inhabitants, 

 from him, were called Achseans; and the country, Achaia. 

 Laconia was the most southern part of Peloponnesus ; 

 having the Laconic gulph on the south, Arcadia on the 

 north, the Argolic gulph on the east, and Messenia on 

 the west. 



Shortly after, namely, in 1406, Attica, being over-stocked 

 with inhabitants, Jon, the younger brother of Acheus, 

 led a considerable colony of Athenians into that part of 

 Peloponnesus, then called Egialea, which bordered on the 

 Corinthian gulph; and, at that time, subject to a Pelasgic 

 Iving, called Sill nous. This prince, to avoid hostilities, 

 gave him his daughter in marriage, and appointed him 

 his heir. In effect, Jon succeeded him, established his 

 colony, and called the country Ionia, Strabo, 588. Pau- 

 san. 522. An. 1404. Acheus, collecting his forces', from 

 Egialea and Attica, passed into Thossaly, and recovered 

 the share, which his father Xuthus should have possessed, 

 Pausan. 521. '•■ 



Eolus, the eldest son of Hellen, had several sons; one 

 only of whom need here be mentioned, namely, Salmo- 

 neus, who reigned in Thessaly, Diodor. 397, Apollodorus, 

 Lib. I, cap, vii. §. 24. Being probably disturbed, by the 

 invasion of Acheus, he passed, Avith a great number of 

 Eolians, into Elis, in Peloponnesus; and possessed himself 

 of a considerable part of it, on the banks of the river 

 Alpheus, and built the city Salmonea, 1 Diodor. 312. He 



was 



