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the coast of the Locrians, are Laiymna\ and Thronium^, 

 near which last the river Boagrius enters the sea. Also, the 

 towns of Narycion, Alope^ and Scarphia'' ; and then the 

 gulf which receives the name of the Maliac'* from the people 

 who dwell there, and upon which are the towns of Halcyone, 

 Econia, and Phalara^. 



CHAP. 13. — DOETS. 



Doris comes next, in which are Sperchios?', Erineon^, 

 Boion^, Pindus, and Cytinum^*'. Behind Doris lies Mount 

 <Eta. 



CHAP. 14. — PHTHIOTIS. 



Haemonia follows, a country which has often changed its 

 name, having been successively called Pelasgic Argos, Hel- 

 las, Thessaly, and Dryopis, always taking its surname from 

 its kings, in this country was bom the king whose name 

 was Graecus ; and from whom Graecia was so called ; and here 

 too was born Hellen", from whom the Hellenes derive their 

 name. The same people Homer has called by three different 

 names, Myrmidones, Hellenes, and Achaei. 



That portion of these people which inhabit the country 

 adjacent to Doris are called PhthiotaB. Their towns are 

 Echinus ^^, at the mouth of the river Sperchius, and, at four 



1 The Lower Larymna. Its ruins are seen between the modem Mat- 

 zumadi and Martini. 



* Its ruins are to be seen near the modem Andera. 



3 Between Daphnus and Cynus. Gell found its ruins on a hill near 

 the sea-shore. 



* Its ruins are to be seen three miles from those of Thronium. 



5 Now called the Gulf of Zeitoun. The people from whom it received 

 its name were the Malienses. 



6 Its ruins are two leagues from the modem town of Zeitoun. 



7 Or Sperchia. 



s Strabo says that it lay below the town of Pindus. It is perhaps the 

 present Palseo Choria. 



3 Its rviins are placed by Leake near the modem Mariolates. 



^'^ Like Pindus, one of the four towns or Tetrapolis of Doris. Its site 

 corresponds to the modem Gravia. 



^^ He seems to think that the name Grsecus is older than that of 

 Hellen, in which he is supported by Apollodorus. 



^2 So called from Echion, fabled to have spnmg from the dragon's 



