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CHAP. 3. (2.) — ^TOLIA. 
The peoples of ^^tolia are the Athamanes\ the Tymphsei^, 
the Ephyri^, the ^nienses, the Perrhsebi^ the Dolopes% the 
Maraces, and the Atraces^ in whose territory rises the river 
Atrax, which flows into the Ionian Sea. Calydon'' is a city 
of -^tolia, situate at a distance of seven miles from the sea, 
and near the banks of the river Evenus^. We then come to 
Macynia^, and Moiycria, behind which lie Mounts Chalcis^^ 
and Taphiassus. On the coast again, there is the promontory 
of Antirrhium^\ off which is the mouth of the Corinthian 
Gulf, which flows in and separates ^Etolia from the Pelopon- 
nesus, being less^^ than one mile in width. The promontory 
which faces it on the opposite side is called Rhion^^. The 
towns of ^tolia, however, on the Corinthian Gulf are Nau- 
pactus^^ and Pylene^^ ; and, more inland, Pleuron and Hali- 
1 Pouqueville says that Athamania occupied the localities now known 
as Djomnerca and K-adovitch. It properly belonged to Epirus, and PHny 
makes a mistake in considering it as a part of JEtolia. 
^ According to Pouqueville the ruins of Tymphsea are to be seen near 
the village of PaHouri, four miles from Janina. 
3 Ephyre, a town of the Agrsei, is also mentioned by Strabo, but no- 
thing whatever is known of it. 
4 The main body of the Perrhsebi were a people of Thessaly. 
^ Dolopia, now called Anovlacliia, was properly reckoned part of Epii'us. 
® They are probably not the same people as the inhabitants of Atrax in 
Thessaly, which will be found mentioned in the 15th Chapter of this Book. 
7 The most famous city of jEtoHa in its day, and the residence of 
CEneus, father of Meleager and Tydeus, and grandfather of Diomedes. 
The greater part of its inhabitants were removed by Augustus to his new 
city of Nicopolis. Leake supposes its ruins to be those seen by him at 
Kurt-Aga, to the east of the river Evenus. 
8 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. 
^0 Probably the present Yarassova ; there was a tovm called Chalcis, 
or Hypochalcis, at its foot. The present Kaki-Skala was probably the. 
mountain of Tapliiassus. 
Opposite the Promontory of Khium, at the entrance of the Corin- 
thian Gulf. It is now caUed the Castle of EoumeHa, or the Pimta of the 
Dardanelles of Roum Ih. 
12 Leake and Dodwell make it a mile and a half. 
1* Or Ehium. It is now called the Castle of the Morea. 
1^ The modern Enebatche or Lepanto ; whence the Corinthian Gruif 
takes its modern name. 
1^ Proschium was built at a later period on the site of Pylene. Its site 
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