TO THE STRAITS OF THERMOPYL/E. 'M)\ 
bearing: this appellation was so extensive, that chap. 
^^ ,. . . VIII. 
it ran through all Greece ; dividing it into two ^,^...^,,^ — . 
parts, as the Apennines divide Jtali/ : only that 
portion of it being properly called (Eta, which 
is heaped up into ridges towards the east. The 
highest part of all was called Callidromos ; ac- 
cessible, however, to an army, — because Cato 
drove the y^tolians, having vanquished them, 
from this summit^: and there was a valley 
lying at its foot, only sixty paces wide, through 
which a road led to the Gulph of Malia ; 
answering to that valley wherein Bodonitza is 
situate. There are four towns belonging to this 
neighbourhood of whose situation we are alto- 
gether ignorant ; Cnemis, ^Ipenus, Tichius, and 
Rhoduntia : two of them (the j^r^^ and last) being 
described by Strabo as by nature fortified* ; and 
Livi/, relating an attack made upon the two last 
towns, speaks of the difficulty to which Flaccus 
was exposed, in his attempts to storm their 
citadels*. Perhaps, after all that has been 
urged, it will be plain that Bodonitza was 
(8) Vid. Liv. ihid. c. 18. torn. III. p. 270. 
(4' Vide Strab. ibid. pp. 6l7, 621. 
(5) "Fiacco non eadera fortuna ad Tichiunta et Rlwduntinm, 
nequicquarn subire ad ea castella conato, fuerat." Lima, ibid. 
