336 On Scriptural and profane Accounts 
from a person is obvious: but where the real root is less 
obvious, personages equally fictitious are received without 
seruple into history. The name Larissa is one which oc- 
curs very frequently in ancient geography ; there was one 
in Argos, another in Thesaly, another in the Troad, and a 
fourth in Syria. The very circumstance of a name being 
repeated in so many and distant countries, shows that it 
must be significant of some circumstance in which they all 
agreed, and Strabo indirectly informs us what this was, 
when he tells us (621 Alm.) of three of them, amavres 
worapoxworoy TH xwpav exxoy, that they had all alluvial de- 
posits in the adjacent country, a circumstance which marks 
the vicinity of a considerable river. Of the ThessalianLa- 
rissa he says, that it was the same in site and quality with 
the Caystrian (440) xas yap evudpos. And this is the exact 
meaning of the name, derived from Aw an intensive prefix 
and pew. Aadeeovrs Tape TO Aw Xu TA Pew. AmpEOVTs, pEYAAWS 
peovts, wAcovacpw Tov 0. Et, Mag. The same remark holds 
good of the Syrian Larissa which was on the Orontes, and 
the Assyrian on the Tigris. According to Pausanias 
however, (11.23) a daughter of Pelasgus, called Larissa, 
gave her name to these places. Dionysius of Halicarnassus, 
a little varying the story, makes Larissa to bear three 
sons, Pelasgus, Achaius and Phthius. Aavdos according 
to Strabo (648) signifies a place grown up with wood, and 
so etymology proves, da an intensive, ian wood. Here too 
Pausanias (307 ed. Kuhn) tells us of a heroine Daulis. The 
country of Awpis, which was remarkably mountainous, de- 
rived its name from da and opes ; yet all the Greek historians 
represent a Dorus as giving his name to it. The high 
central district of Peloponnesus was called, from the bears 
and wolves which harboured in its mountains, Apxadsa and 
Avxaone, an Arcas and a Lycaon have been invented to ac- 
count for these names. The promontory of Sarpedon in 
Lycia, was said to have derived its name from a king Sar- 
