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miles from tlie narrow pass of Tliermopylse\ Heraclea, whicli 
from it takes its surname of Trachin^. Here too is Mount 
Callidromus^, and the celebrated towns of Hellas'^, Halos*, 
Lamia^, Phthia^, and Arne^. 
CHAP. 15. (8.) — THESSALT PEOPEE. 
In Tliessaly is Orcliomenus, formerly called the Minyan^, 
and the towns of Almon, by some called Salmon, Atrax^^, 
and Pelinna ; the ^Fountain of Hyperia ; the towns also of 
Pher8e^\ at the back of which is Pieria^^, extending to Ma- 
cedonia, Larisa^^, Gromphi^'*, Thebes of Thessaly, the grove 
of Pteleon, the Gulf of Pagasa, the town of Pagasa^^, which 
was afterwards called Demetrias^^, the Plains of Pharsalia, 
teeth. Its site is marked by the modern village called Akhino. The 
Spercliius is now called the Ellada. 
1 This famous spot still retains its name. It is also called Bocoa di Lupo. 
2 From rpaxvs, "narrow," in aUusion to the narrowness of the moun- 
tain passes. Brotier places it on the site of the modern Zeitoun, but he 
is probably in error. ^ A peak of the range of CEta. 
The name of a town and small district of Phthiotis : it eventually 
gave its name to the whole of Grreece, which by its inhabitants was called 
Hellas. 
5 Near the river Amphrysus. Leake places it at Kefalosi, at the ex- 
tremity of Mount Othi-ys. ^ The modern Zeitoun. 
7 Said to have been the city of Achilles. 
^ According to Stephanus of Byzantium, Cierium was identical with 
Arne. Leake places it at the modem Mataranga. 
^ So called from the people called Minyse, who derived their name 
from Minyas, the father of Orchomenus. In the time of Strabo, this 
city, the capital of the Minyan empire, was in ruins. Its site is now 
called Seripu. 
10 Leake places its site on the left bank of the Peneius, opposite the 
village of Grunitza. 
11 The residence of Admetus, and in later times of the tyrants of 
Thessaly. The modern Yalestina occupies its site. 
12 Spoken of in C. 17 of the present book. 
13 The ancient capital of the Pelasgi. It is now called Larissa, Larza, 
or lenitchen. 
1^ Leake places Gromphi on the heights now called Episkopi, on the 
left bank of the BHuri. 
15 Its ruins are said to be seen about eight miles from the modern 
city of Yolo. 
16 The city ofYolo stands on its site. The Grulf is called the Bay of Yolo. 
17 This is not strictly correct. Demetrias was foimded by Demetrius 
PoHorcetes, about two or three miles to the west of Pagasa, the inhabit- 
