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CHAP. 3. (2.) — iETOLIA. 



The peoples of -^tolia are the Athamanes\ the Tymphsei', 

 the Epnyri^, the ^nienses, the Perrhaebi^ the Dolopes'*, the 

 Maraces, and the Atraees^, in whose territory rises the river 

 Atrax, which flows into the Ionian Sea. Calydon' is a city 

 of -Stolia, situate at a distance of seven miles from the sea, 

 and near the banks of the river Evenus*. We then come to 

 Macynia", and Molycria, behind which lie Mounts Chalcis*** 

 and TaphiasBus. On the coast again, there is the promontory 

 of Antirrhium", off which is the mouth of the Corinthian 

 Gulf, which flows in and separates ^tolia from the Pelopon- 

 nesus, being less^"^ than one mile in width. The promontory 

 which faces it on the opposite side is called Ehion'^. The 

 towns of ^tolia, however, on the Corinthian Gulf are Nau- 

 pactus" and Pylene'* ; and, more inland, Pleuron and Hali- 



* Pouqueville says that Athamania occupied the locahties now known 

 as Djoumerca and Radovitch. It properly belonged to Epiriis, and Phny 

 makes a mistake in considering it as a part of -^tolia. 



* According to Pouqueville the ruins of Tymphaea are to be seen near 

 the village of Paliouri, four miles from Janina. 



* Ephyre, a town of the Agreei, is also mentioned by Strabo, but no- 

 thing whatever is known of it. 



* The main body of the Perrhaebi were a people of Thessaly. 



* Dolopia, now called Anovlachia, waa properly reckoned part of Epirus. 



* They are probably not the same people as the inhabitants of Atrax in 

 Thessaly, which will be found mentioned in the 15th Chapter of tliis Book. 



7 The most famous city of Mto]i& in its day, and the residence of 

 (Eneus, father of Meleager and Tydeus, and grandfather of Diomedes. 

 The greater part of its uihabitants were removed by Augustus to his new 

 city of NicopoUs. Leake supposes its ruins to be those seen by bim at 

 Kurt- A-ga, to the east of the river Evenus. 



* Now called the Fidaris. 



* Pouqueville supposes the site of Macynia to have been that of the 

 modem Koukio-Castron, and that of Molycria the present Manaloudi. 



10 Probably the present Varassova ; there was a town called Chalcis, 

 or Hypochalcis, at its foot. The present Kaki-Skala was probably the 

 mountain of Taphiassus. 



11 Opposite the Promontory of Eliium, at the entrance of the Corin- 

 thian Gulf. It is now called the Castle of Roimielia, or the Punta of tb? 

 Dardanelles of Roum Ili. 



12 Leake and Dodwell make it a mile and a half. 



" Or Rhium. It is now called the Castle of the Morea. 

 1* The modem Enebatche or Lepanto j whence the Corinthian Gull 

 takes its modern name. 



i» Proschium was built at a later perio<J^)n the site of Pylene. Its site 



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