12 History of Nature. [BooK IV. 



taketh in the River Eurotas, but receiveth him not, but, as 

 Homer expresseth it 1 , floweth over him like Oil: and within a 

 very little while rejecteth the Burden, as refusing to mingle 

 with his own silver Streams those penal and cursed Waters 

 so direfully produced. 



CHAPTER IX. 

 Magnesia. 



To Thessalia, Magnesia is annexed : the Fountain there 

 is Libethra. The Towns, lolchos, Hirmenium, Pyrrha, 

 Methone, Olizon. The Promontory Sepias. Towns, Cas- 

 tana, Sphalatra, and the Promontory ^Enantium. Towns, 

 Meliboea, Rhisus, Erymne. The Mouth of Peneus. Towns, 

 Homolium, Orthe, Thespise, Phalanna, Thaumaciae, Gyrton, 

 Cranon, Acarne, Dotion, Melitsea, Phylace, Potinae. The 

 Length of Epirus, Achaia, Attica, and Thessalia, lying strait 

 out, is by report 480 Miles, the Breadth 287. 



CHAPTER X. 

 Macedonia. 



MACEDONIA, so called afterwards (formerly it was named 

 Emathia) is a Kingdom, consisting of 150 several People, 

 renowned for two Kings, and once ennobled for the Empire 

 of the World. This Country passing behind Magnesia and 

 Thessalia toward the Nations of Epirus Westward, is much 

 troubled with the Dardani. The North Parts thereof are 

 defended by Paeonia and Pelagonia, against the Triballi. 

 The Towns are these, -^Ege, wherein it was the Custom to inter 



1 As Homer expresseth it. See " Iliad," b. 750 : 



" To these were join'd, who till the pleasant fields 

 Where Titaresius winds : the gentle flood 

 Pours into Peneus all his limpid stores, 

 But with the silver-eddied Peneus flows 

 Unmixt as oil ; for Stygian is his stream, 

 And Styx is the inviolable oath. 



COWPER'S Homer. Wern. Club. 



