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BOOK IV. 
ACCOUNT OF COUNTRIES, NATIONS, SEAS, TOWNS, 
HAYENS, MOUNTAINS, RIVERS, DISTANCES, AND PEO- 
PLES WHO NOW EXIST OR FORMERLY EXISTED. 
CHAP. 1. (1.) — EPIEUS. 
The third great Grulf of Europe begins at the mountains 
of Acroceraunia\ and ends at the Hellespont, embracing an 
extent of 2500 miles, exclusive of the sea-line of nineteen 
smaller gulfs. Upon it are Epirus, Acarnania, ^tolia, Phocis, 
Locris, Achaia, Messenia, Laconia, Argolis, Megaris, Attica, 
Eosotia ; and again, upon the other sea^, the same Phocis 
and Locris, Doris, Phthiotis, Thessalia, Magnesia, Macedonia 
and Thracia. All the fabulous lore of Greece, as well as the 
effulgence of her literature, first shone forth upon the banks 
of this Gulf. We shall therefore dwell a little the longer 
upon it. 
Epirus^, generally so called, begins at the mountains of 
^ Acroceraunia. The first people that we meet are the Chaones, 
from whom Chaonia^ receives its name, then the Thesproti^, 
and then the Antigonenses^. We then come to the place 
where Aornos' stood, with its exhalations so deadly to the 
feathered race, the Cestrini^, the Perrhsebi^, in whose coun- 
^ Now called Monti della Chimera, or Mountains of Khimara. See 
p. 262. 2 'j[]^e ^gean Sea, the present Archipelago. 
3 This country contained, according to Pouqueville, the present San- 
giacs of J anina, Delvino, and Chamouri, with the Yavodilika or Princi- 
paHty of Arta. This name was originally given to the whole of the west of 
Grreece, from the Promontory of Acroceraunia to the entrance of the Corin- 
thian G-ulf, in contradistinction to Corcyra and the island of CephaUenia. 
^ This district, according to PouqueviHe, occupied the present Cantons 
of Chimera, lapouria, Arboria, Paracaloma, and Philates, 
^ They occupied the site of the present Paramythia, according to Pou- 
queville. 
^ Antigonia was about a mile distant, PouqueviHe says, from the 
modern town of Tebelen. 
7 From 'A "not," and opvis "a bird." Its site is now unknown. 
There were many places of this name. Avernus or Aornos in Campania 
has been previously mentioned. 
^ The remains of Cestria are still to be seen at Palea Yenetia, near 
the town of Filiates. PouqueviUe calls the place Chamouri. 
^ According to Pouqueville, the modern Zagori stands on the site of 
Perrhsebia. Puidus is sometimes called G-rammos, but is stiU known by 
its ancient name. 
